Congratulations Joe Schartz!

Joe Schartz was recently named a national finalist in the FFA Risk Management Essay Contest. This event is sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture. Joe will be notified soon as to whether he has been named a national winner. Ten national winners and their FFA Advisor participate in an all expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. May 6-10, 2009.
To compete, Joe wrote an essay on how he plans to control risk in his Supervised Agricultural Experience.

Friday

Well, another fun and exciting day. First off, we got to sleep in again!!! One of our chapter members has mono, so we had to let her sleep some. Then, we had to leave at 10:00 so that we could catch a bus and go to the next session, session 4. After the session, we all went to see High School Musical 3. Next, we went back to the career fair/FFA Mall. Afterwards, we all went back to Conseco Fieldhouse for session 5. That done pretty late, and we all went back to the motel afterwards. When we got back to the motel, four of us went to the dance there. We stayed for about half an hour because it really wasn't anything special and we were there with all Nebraskans who do stuff way different. Well, it's getting late and we want to sleep. Good night.

Thursday

We slept in and then caught a bus at 10:30 and went to our second day of convention. The second session was really fun, but not as good as the first in my opinion. After the second session we toured the career fair. It was fun and interesting to see all of the different jobs available for agriculture. Also we got to see how many people were there and where they were from. Sometimes we would be stopped and asked to sign a book that had all the states listed. The goal of that page was to get one person from each state to sign your book. The FFA shopping mall was quite a place. There were many things you could get to show your support of FFA. After walking around the FFA shopping mall we decided to look through the regular shopping mall. They boys got tired of shopping so we made our way back to the Convention Center to see the sesson for that night. The key note speaker was Tom Zupanic a former colts player. Later on during the session and illusionist came. It was pretty cool seeing a woman escape a straight jacket lifted 35 ft. above the ground, folded up into a tiny box, and escape handcuffs in water. We made our way back to our hotel to rest and get ready for a busy Friday.

Wednesday

Today was amazing! First off, we all met at the school at 4:30 AM and then drove to Omaha, NE. From there, we all got our boarding passes and passed through security (only a few hitches there), then waited for our plane to board. All of our flights were on time surprisingly, considering the weather. Our flight schedule was 10:07(CST)-11:39(CST) going to Chicago, IL. Next, 1:12(CST)-3:20(EPT), we went to Indianapolis, IN, losing an hour along the way. After we landed in Indy, we got on our limo, drove past the FFA Center, and to our hotel. We then changed into our OD (official dress) and went to the first session that was at 7:15, but we left at 5:30, and got there just as it started. Two of the features of the first session included: a laser show, and Dana Hee. After getting back from the first session, Mrs. Petersen, Stacia, Ashley, and Jeremy went to The Cheesecake Factory, which was amazing. Lastly, everybody went to sleep at about 1:00 in the morning. What a fun day.

We're leaving

Good Morning! We are finally leaving!! We will leave now, drive to Omaha, NE and catch a plane there to Indy.