Leadership Development Events

Leadership Development Events focus on creating situations for members to demonstrate their abilities in public speaking, decision making, communication and their knowledge of agriculture and the FFA organization. Team and individual events are used to reinforce what is taught in agricultural science classrooms.

For More information regarding CDE's, please refer to https://www.texasffa.org/lde 

All of the follow LDE teams are available for student to partake in at City View! 

  • Jr/ Sr Broadcasting 

  • Job Interview 

  • Jr/ Sr Chapter Conducting 

  • Jr/ Sr Creed Speaking 

  • Jr/ Sr Quiz 

  • Jr/ Sr Ag Advocacy 

  • Public Relations 

  • Jr/ Sr Ag Skills Demonstration 

  • Agriculture Issues 

Once LDE season begins, the practice schedule will be posted below. 

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FFA Broadcasting

A team of 3 members presents an informative radio program covering one or more agricultural subjects that is current in nature and local in content. The contest assumes that the chapter has a regularly scheduled non-commercial radio program once each month over a local station.

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Public Relations

A team of between two and four FFA members develops and presents a 5-8 minute program to inform a specified target audience regarding the Texas FFA and what it represents. The presentation is developed assuming that the target audience has no knowledge of the FFA.  Team members are asked questions in response to their program following the presentation. 

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Creed Speaking

A member presents the FFA Creed from memory and answers questions about its meaning and purpose. This event is just one way to boost self-confidence, earn recognition, and develop powerful, organized and professional communication skills.

There are both Greenhand and senior levels for this event.

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FFA Quiz

An exam testing team members’ understanding of the FFA, agricultural education, current agricultural events and parliamentary procedure is given.  Teams can be made of 3 or 4 members. 

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Job Interview

At the competition, each member submits their resume, completes a job application for an agricultural position on site and participates in an interview via telephone, in person one-on-one and with a panel of possible employers.

State winning individual advances to National competition that is held during the National FFA Convention the end of October.

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Chapter Conducting

Teams conduct a mock chapter meeting to demonstrate knowledge of basic parliamentary law and the use of correct parliamentary procedures.  At the conclusion of the meeting, team members are asked questions regarding parliamentary law.

There are both Greenhand and senior levels for this event.

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Agriculture Issues

A team of 3 to 7 students research and analyze a current agricultural issue, create a portfolio and also develop and deliver a presentation that stresses both pros and cons of their selected agricultural issue. At the event competition, members use verbal skills and presentation abilities to defend their findings and answer judges’ questions.

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Skills Demonstration

A team of 3-5 members performs an actual demonstration of an agricultural skill including anything in the Agricultural Science and Technology curriculum using effective public speaking and communication methods.