The Washington FFA Chapter is celebrating National FFA Week with several activities to educate and engage their fellow students, staff, and community members through their motto of “Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, and Living to Serve.”

The week begins for the chapter with the sub-district convention at Louisa-Muscatine High School in which members will complete Career Development Events and other tests to advance to the district convention on March 12th at Pekin High School. The chapter then encourages the rest of the high school to take part in dress up days this week, with Tuesday as “America Day,” Wednesday is “Anything But Your Bag Day,” Thursday is “Lumberjack Day,” and Friday is “Blue and Gold Day.” On Thursday the chapter will travel to all the district’s school buildings to serve a teacher breakfast, and the “Ag Olympics” will also return that day for high school students to compete in challenges that weren’t held due to the pandemic last year. Chapter Treasurer Ava Wulf hopes fellow students will learn things about FFA that they didn’t know before, “I would just like people to realize that we work really hard in our club. And this week is one of the most important weeks in the school year to us during the whole school year, and just understand that we put a lot of hard work into everything and this is our passion and pretty much what we are living for.”

The week concludes with Wulf’s favorite tradition of “Tractor Day,” when the members take the atypical mode of transportation to school Friday with a chapter breakfast included. You can hear more from Wulf about FFA Week during today’s Halcyon House Washington Page on air and at kciiradio.com.