Diamond Trail FFA enjoys trip to national convention

By Tristen Valcore

On Monday, October 27th, Diamond Trail FFA started their trip to the National FFA Convention early in the morning. They made their first stop at the world’s largest truck stop for breakfast before visiting a Rhea Farm in Jacksonville, Illinois, where they got to feed the rheas cabbage and learned about their lifestyle. After arriving in Indianapolis, they went to SkyZone.

On Tuesday, the students toured Driving Wind Farm, a unique urban farm in the middle of Indianapolis, and learned about their strawberries, pumpkins, flowers, and firewood production.

After that, they toured Lincoln Tech College to learn more about hands-on trade programs. Later, they visited Beasley’s Orchard and played games, jumped on the jumping pillow, and shot apple cannons. That night, they had dinner at Vicino’s in downtown Indy, thanks to our FFA alumni.

Wednesday was their first official day at the convention. The students spent time at the career fair talking to colleges and businesses. Then they attended the first general session where they heard from keynote speaker A’ric Jackson and listened to the national band and chorus perform. That evening, they went carting at K1 speed.

On Thursday they spent the morning at the convention attending a workshop and watching students from all over the nation compete in contests. In the workshop, the students learned about how to solve problems when being an entrepreneur and how to effectively work with others. Later that day they went to Top Golf for dinner and fun before taking off the next morning and heading for home