Bloomington High School North, Nikean, 2018, Page 120

Description:	-itMaliCotBEdustrious. the future ofsier farming is now —l>sier Hills Career Centers Future Farmers of[pier was busy this year combining vocationalTraining and experience, outreach, service, industry field tripsand conventions as a matter of business.Senior Noah Pardue joined FFA his freshman year at theurging of his good friend, Jake Cain. Over the years, meetingpeople from all over the country was exceptionally rewarding forPardue.At first, you think its going to be a small group, but then yougo to conventions and, wow, there are lots more people than justme and my group! he said. Even so, he cant help that theattraction to FFA is in his blood.My grandpa raised horses when I wtas growing up. I hadrabbits and a goat at [Grandpas], Pardue said. Even though he plans on welding fora career, he knows hell also own a small ranch of his own in the future.Also joining four years ago, Senior Jake Cain served the HHCC chapter byholding offices, first as sentinel (a greeter and goodwill ambassador) one year thenas treasure this year. He attributes his longtime association withboth 4H and FFA as a prompt to involve himself in all sorts ofcommunity agriculture clubs and service organizations.If you have the drive and the ambition to go after somethingand you can see yourself doing or would like to make a differencein, dont let anything hold you down, he said. Just do your best.Like Pardue, Cain sees himself in another career besidesagriculture as hes already taking college courses for his HVACcertification, but, hell have his own farm, too, later in life.•. y 9 *mM What Im learning here willhelp me with my own farmsome day.Kenrick Neal, 10- § 1 • . j :■f#i mil] 1 jtop left: Most of the Hoosier Hills Career Center FFAOfficer Team mug for the camera in front of the sign atNational Convention in October. This was held at theNational FFA Headquarters in Indianapolis for all of thehigh school chapters in the nation. Along with educationalseminars and workshops, attending students get to visitand learn from industry professional. Students from allover the U.S. learn from each other, and this is atreasured benefit of the members.above: An sneak peek inside Bankers Life Fieldhousewhere over 50k national FFA members attended.bottom left: Kenrick Neal, is no stranger to the agriculturallifestyle, as some of his family are active in farming. Infact, his sister Senior Kierra Neal was the HHCCs FFAchapter president this year.below: Jake Cain, Kierra Neal and Noah Pardue pause ata scenic fountain at the National FFA Headquarters..
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