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Volunteer Opportunities

Thank you for volunteering with the Minnesota FFA!  Below is a highlight of upcoming opportunities and details on how to sign up and learn more!  If you have an opportunity to share, please email them to minnesotaffa@gmail.com.
State FFA Opportunities
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Winter Invitational Judges Needed
Over 1,000 Minnesota FFA members will be competing at the University's Winter Invitational next week and judges are still needed for speaking events like Creed Speaking, Extemporaneous Speaking, and Parliamentary Procedure. 

Contact the Invitational's Career and Leadership Development Event Coordinator, Dennis Bjorklund, at bjork045@umn.edu to volunteer!
AgriScience Fair Judges needed
Please review all volunteer descriptions below and select the option that is of interest to you.  Please feel free to support in as many ways as possible. Thank you in advance.  

Reviewer
Each student submits an AgriScience Fair research paper highlighting findings from their experiments and research. We invite you to review research papers.  A paper scoring rubric will be provided to reviewers with 1 week to evaluate 5-10 research papers.  Papers will be electronically sent to you to be reviewed as you are able prior to the deadline.                  
(Due: review process March 4-11) 

Interviewer
Students are required to participate in a project interview. Groups of 1 or more interviewers will evaluate students.  Interviews provide a space for students to discuss their experiments, their findings and demonstrate their understanding of the scientific method. A rubric will be provided to guide the interview. (Date: March 15 Time: 7:30 am to 1 pm; Location: UM St. Paul Campus) Input caption text here. Use the block's Settings tab to change the caption position and set other styles.
State FFA Convention Volunteering
Volunteers are needed to support the 2,600 members who will be competing at the State FFA Convention April 28-30, 2019 in St. Paul.  Contact our Career and Leadership Development Event Coordinator, Dennis Bjorklund, at bjork045@umn.edu to volunteer!
Minnesota FFA Alumni Opportunities
The Minnesota FFA Association and Minnesota FFA Alumni recognize supporters of our organization through a number of awards.  Take some time to nominate those who have earned recognition today!

Minnesota FFA Hall of Fame

  • The Hall of Fame recognizes individuals who have been influential and supportive of Minnesota FFA and who have demonstrated a high level of service and longstanding commitment to agriculture, agribusiness, and/or education in agriculture.

Outstanding FFA Alumni Member Award

  • The Minnesota FFA Alumni Association encourages you to nominate a Minnesota FFA Alumni Association member for recognition for their contributions on local and/or state levels

Outstanding FFA Alumni Affiliate Award

  •  The purpose of the Outstanding Affiliate Award is to recognize affiliates that plan innovative programming and promote agriculture, food and natural resource education and the FFA

Outstanding Young FFA Alumni Award

  • Nominate a young Minnesota FFA Alumni Association member for recognition for their contributions on the local and/or state levels.

Outstanding FFA Alumni Coaching Award

  • This award is designed to recognize an individual FFA Alumni member and the FFA Alumni Chapter that have assisted or coached their FFA Chapter with Career Development Events at local, regional, state, national and invitational events. 
Partner Opportunities
Chuck Stranberg, Executive Director of Minnesota PAS (Professional Agricultural Students organization) invites you to assist with the upcoming PAS Annual Conference which will be held in Marshall at the campus of Southwest Minnesota State University February 5-7.  PAS is a collegiate organization that focuses on developing students with an agricultural interest.  PAS serves students at campuses at Marshall, Willmar, Worthington, Mankato and Crookston.  

Opportunities at the conference include serving as a judge.  They have a number of events similar to FFA.  Visit the National PAS website for a full list of competitions.

If you would like more information, contact Chuck at cstranberg@frontier.com or call him at 320-212-1198.
Thank you for your support of the Minnesota FFA and our partners!  If you have an opportunity to share, please send it to minnesotaffa@gmail.com.
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