On Sunday, Aug. 2, the Aplington-Parkersburg FFA Chapter pulled out all the stops for their Award Banquet Ceremony. Parents and family were invited to the event to celebrate the achievements made by freshman through senior students working diligently throughout the year to showcase the core values of the FFA. The principle tenets are dedicated to school leadership and community service, work based experiences and learning, and AG experience—which is supervised.
The banquet is held annually on March 24, but, as it was a year waylaid by the pandemic, the celebration couldn’t be held until Sunday night. As it was such an atypical date, Jaime Pudenz, FFA Chapter Advisor and the students decided to change the location to the A-P auditorium, with some unexpected results.
“The students got to engage in some theatrics,” Pudenz explained. “They got to run down and cut loose during the opening ceremony. Parents and families hadn’t seen something like that before. It was a hit, and I think we will continue to do that in the future.”
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