Mustang CTE

Our Nursery Landscape and Forage teams took a trip down to Huntsville these past few days to compete in the Sam Houston State University State CDE contest! We are so proud of how much these teams have grew throughout the semester and how much work they have put in! Our Nursery Landscape team ended up coming away with: 🥇1st in District 🥉3rd in Area 29th out of all the teams in Texas! Our Forage team ended up coming away with: 🥇1st in District 🥇1st in Area IV 24th out of all the teams in Texas!

🎉 Congratulations to the City View FFA Meats Evaluation Team! 🥩🏆 Our Meats team had an incredible season, culminating in an outstanding performance at the State FFA Meats Evaluation Contest held at Texas A&M University on Saturday, April 26, 2025! Out of the best teams across Texas, City View finished 16th in the state — an incredible accomplishment that reflects months of hard work, dedication, and growth. We are so proud of these students for their commitment to excellence and for representing City View FFA and the Mustang spirit with pride and professionalism on one of the biggest stages in Texas FFA! Way to go, Mustangs! 🐎💙💛 #CityViewFFA #MustangPride #MeatsEvaluation #TexasFFA #CTEWorks https://www.judgingcard.com/Results/Team.aspx?ID=24770&EID=157663

💥 State FFA CDE contest at Tarleton State University 💥 City View FFA - Texas The Range Evaluation team braved the wet weather on Thursday to qualified for NATIONALS by being this years TEXAS FFA STATE CHAMPIONS!! This marks the second year in a row to compete at the National Land, Range and Homesite contest in Oklahoma City this next week. 💥 City View FFA Range Team 💥 🥇 Wichita District Range Champions 🥇 Area IV Range Champions 🥇 Texas FFA State Range Champions Proud to announce as well!!! 🥇State Champion Individual - Madelynn Hopkins 🥉 3rd place State Individual - Daniel Sawyer 11th place State Individual - Anthony Nguyen Team members: Camden Walser and Jacoby Benham Coach/Advisor: Joshua Hopkins These students have worked hard and been dedicated through heat, cold, rain, mud, bug bites, ticks, snakes, storms to achieve a great success that only happens to one team a year! The Environmental & Natural Resources team had a good day where they achieved the following results. 🥇 Wichita District Champions 🥈 2nd in Area IV 28th best team in the State What a great job by these three awesome seniors that represented our chapter well. ⭐️ Grayson Saenz ⭐️ Isaac Paredon ⭐️ Jacoby Benham Coach/Advisor: Joshua Hopkins 💫 Anna Tillman 💫 Jacoby Benham Shout out to these two students that represent what we should all be about and more often than not, get overlooked because they don’t show up in the score sheet. I am so impressed with both of these students for helping a fellow friend and teammate when they needed them and not asking for anything in return. People notice including the NRCS as they awarded these two with a small gift and note because of the great human beings that they are!!! This makes me so proud!!! Special Thanks to John Powell and family, Judith Riola, and the Sawyer Family for providing a place for these students to practice their skills leading up to the state competition. Please congratulate these awesome students and the character they have to be great. Good luck at Nationals!!!

Competed and Certified at the Wichita Falls Weld Off!!! All five City View FFA students Alex Woods (Freshman), Darien Engleton, Luis Romero, Shaun Sanchez (Juniors) and Giovanni Hernandez (Senior), all did a great job and are now certified! Even better news: highlight of the welding placings!! Shaun Sanchez: 2nd Place, shielded metal arc welding 1F position (~75 welders) Luis Romero: 5th Place, shielded metal arc welding 2F Pipe position (~60 welders) Luis Romero: 3rd Place, gas metal arc welding 3F Down position (~125 welders) Giovanni Hernandez: 3rd Place, gas metal arc welding 3F Down position (~125 welders) Proud of the hard work of these students for taking the opportunity to show their talents. Banners are in the Mail!!!

Huge thanks to R&R Beef Production for welcoming the City View Meats team into the lab today! Our students had an awesome hands-on experience grading cattle from our City View Cattle Contest. We’re grateful for the partnership and opportunity! #CVCTE

Congratulations to these students on received an industry based certification in Cattle Handling. Karley Ammons, Addison McCarty, Nevaeh Contreras, Austin Mitchell, Hailey Ledesma.

🌾🐾 Welcome Ms. Peyton Wood to City View CTE! 💙💛 City View ISD is excited to announce the hiring of Ms. Peyton Wood as our new Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (AFNR) Teacher and FFA Advisor for the 2025–2026 school year! Ms. Wood currently teaches Floral Design, Small Animal Management/Equine Science, and Veterinary Medical Applications at Wichita Falls ISD. She brings a strong background in creating hands-on, career-focused learning experiences—ranging from a student-run floral design business to grooming labs and certification preparation in animal science. With a track record of success coaching both Leadership Development Events (LDEs) and Career Development Events (CDEs), Ms. Wood has guided FFA students to district, area, and state-level achievements. Her passion for hands-on learning, student leadership, and agricultural excellence makes her a valuable addition to our growing CTE program. At City View, she will be teaching Principles of AFNR, Small Animal Management, and Veterinary Medical Applications. Ms. Wood has successfully coached student teams in both Leadership Development Events (LDEs) and Career Development Events (CDEs), with students advancing to area and state levels across multiple contests. Her enthusiasm for student growth, agricultural education, and FFA leadership makes her a fantastic addition to our CTE team. Please join us in giving a warm welcome to Ms. Peyton Wood—welcome to the Mustang Family! 🐴✨ #CityViewCTE #FFA #WelcomeMsWood #AgEducation #CTEExcellence

In amongst the craziness of running all over Texas for CDEs, our students got to take a little breather and make a trip right next door, over to lowa Park, for our Wichita District Convention, Degree Check, and Speaking Contest! We got to celebrate our success this past year by collecting our banners that we have accumulated throughout this semester! Audrey Graham and Lillian Klein also represented our chapter by running for District office. After going through the selection process, Audrey secured the District Vice President spot and Lillian sealed the deal by getting the District Secretary! Madelynn Hopkins also was heavily involved throughout District Convention today, securing a 2nd place finish to advance to Area in Soil Stewardship Speaking, placing 3rd in Extemporaneous Speaking, and putting up some competitive competition by running for an Area office position! Madelynn also obtained the title of Star Lonestar for Wichita District! To round out District Convention, we had 12 students advance to Area striving to receive their Lonestar degree, which is the highest degree a student can earn at the state level in FFA! These students included Lillian Klein, Addison Goodwin, Haley Moon, Kasidee Regouby, Breanna Kuhlmann, Addison Mccarty, Jantzen Lindsey, Daniel Sawyer, Paxton Hollemans, Anna Tillman, Karley Ammons, and Madelynn Hopkins. We are proud of all the hard work these kids put into all they do and can't wait to keep the momentum going! Now, onto State CDEs!💙

Students have been learning about baking with yeast and making pretzels and bread. Many of them get creative in what they come up with to incorporate those items into a dish.

This past week, our FFA kids got to make a trip to the Area IV CDE contest to show off just how hard they have been working this semester! They have been all over Texas working to be ready for this day, and we couldn’t be more proud of how dedicated these kids are to striving for success!💙 This week’s results for the Area contest were: Range (1st in Area *State Qualifier*): Madelynn Hopkins (2nd High Individual), Daniel Sawyer (8th High Individual), Anthony Nguyen, Camden Walser • Nursery Landscape (5th in Area *State Qualifier*): Addason Goodwin (9th High Individual), Brea Kuhlmann, Lilian Pham, Haley Moon • Vet Science (7th in Area *State Qualifier*): Makenzie Nicholson (6th High Individual), Brandon Beltran, Jantzen Lindsey, Lillian Klein • Wildlife (4th in Region *State Qualifier*): Madelynn Hopkins (2nd High Individual), Cade Lacock, Jacoby Benham, Nicholas Edmonson • Floriculture (7th in Area):Grayson Saenz, Isabella Lopez, Kelsey Dragovich, Nicholas Mok • Entomology (9th in Area): Prestyn Brandon, Anastasia Campbell, Malina Cantu,Anna Tillman • Horse Judging: Kentlee Hawkins, Keagan Corn, Shayna Deane, Brooklyn Owens • Land Judging: Isaac Paredon, Shane Miller, Delilah Odom, Braydan Biggs

Congratulations to the City View Meats Team for qualifying for State today at the Area IV contest and placing 10th overall at the Texas Tech University Area Contest! Proud of your hard work and dedication—let’s keep it going at State! #CityViewCTE #FFA #MeatsJudging

Huge thanks to All Hale Meats for letting us in today for a carcass breakdown ahead of tomorrow’s Area Contest—and for the famous jerky! Year 3 of this awesome tradition. We’re grateful for the partnership and support! #CTE #MeatsJudging #AllHaleMeats

On Tuesday, April 1 the City View SkillsUSA team departed for the State Championship in Corpus Christi. Students ended up receiving a total of 9 blue ribbons, 2 Best of Show awards and 1 Overall Best of Show award. Congratulations to the following students: Blue Ribbons: Maria and Alayna - Health Sciences Display Kayla - Photo Panel Job Exhibit Hailey - Illustration Job Exhibit Leon - Fantasy Computer Modification Job Exhibit Ethan and Lukas - Business Computer Job Exhibit Eric and Louis - Fantasy Computer Modification Job Exhbit Best of Show: Ethan and Lukas Eric and Louis Best of Show Overall: Eric and Louis

Congratulations to Audrey & Paxton for setting new personal records at the ASU Meats Contest today! Proud of the hard work and growth you’re showing this season—keep it up! #CVFFA #MeatsTeam #PRday

Students competed last weekend in Waco for the Texas Prostart Competition. Categories included amuse bouche, oxtail mixology, build a better burger, and between bread. The students competed well and 3 of the final 4 in mixology were from City View with Frankie winning the whole thing. Prize included a knife valued over $100 and a $1000 scholarship from Coca Cola. Happy with all the students and their hard work.

Our Forage, Floriculture, and Nursery Landscape team made their way down to Stephen F. Austin to practice for our Area contest this upcoming week! Our Forage team was 22nd overall and 1st in Area IV. Our Nursery Landscape team was 13th overall and 1st in Area IV. Our Floriculture team was 8th overall and 1st in Area IV. Isabella Lopez also got a 5th place high point individual out of 103 individuals! These kids are rockin' and rollin' and have improved and worked so hard this year!

☕🍩 Huge thanks to 89.5 KMOC for delivering coffee and donuts to the City View Jr/Sr High staff yesterday! Your kindness and support were a real treat and truly appreciated. 💙💛 #ThankYouKMOC #CityViewStrong #CommunitySupport

Wishing the best of luck to our incredible SkillsUSA State Teams as they head to Corpus Christi today! Your hard work, dedication, and talent have already made us proud—now it’s time to show the state what City View CTE is all about! #CityViewCTE #SkillsUSA #CTEProud

Tarleton State Invitational CDE - largest judging contest in the country!!! City View FFA teams compete in Range, EN&R, Land, Entomology, Vet Med, Floral, Nursery and Horse. Congrats to Daniel Sawyer for placing 8th high individual in the Range contest!!