FFA south district vice president visits DHS

Alabama FFA South District Vice President Emma Watson spoke to the Daleville High School FFA on Jan. 24.

Watson spoke to the group about the process to become a FFA South District vice president.

She said the first thing she did was fill out her application then ask her English teacher to look over the application for things such as spelling or grammatical errors.

Next she said her agriculture teacher helped her out with mock interviews.

“I said ‘Hey, can we set up some mock interviews and try a few questions then sit down and talk about it?’” Watson said. “So about once a month we sat down and we had a little mock interview.”

After months of mock interviews with her agriculture teacher, Watson then participated in the official Alabama FFA South District mock interview, which took place in Enterprise.

“They told us our strengths and weaknesses after the interview, so I could work on the areas that I was weak in,” Watson said.

Finally, she attended the actual interview, which consisted of multiple parts.

“The first step is you take a written exam that’s about 30 to 40 questions,” Watson said. “Then you go through with your interview with a panel of judges and then the judges will deliberate and write down the list of who all made it. So you know right then and there who made it.”

Watson said that the interview process is fun and that she’d help any DHS FFA students who wanted to interview for a district position prepare for the event.

She then got out rolls of toilet paper and asked the people in the room to take however many sheets of toilet paper they wanted.

After the sheets had been torn, she revealed that this was an icebreaker game where every sheet a member had was one fact that person had to tell the class.

Once the class had told all their information about themselves, she transitioned into talking about FFA Week.

“FFA week is basically the week in February where you share with your whole school and your whole community what FFA stands for—what our motto is, what we live for and what we teach our members,” Watson said.

She said that during the week FFA chapters across the nation hold community service projects, peanut boils, softball tournaments and many other types of events to commemorate the week.

Her visit ended in a game where two teams had a minute and a half to build the highest tower they could with just magazines. The winning team received candy.