Denton FFA

The floral girls did it again!

Congratulations to our Denton High School Floral Design girls for bringing home the hardware from the Royse City floral cup!

🥈Congratulation to Emiley M. for winning 2nd place beginner!
🥉Congratulations to Cami O for winning 3rd place advanced!

Congratulations to Hannah Taylor on her Cross Timbers Commercial Steer Program steer. He graded low choice with a yield grade of 2. We are excited to see her overall results later this summer.

She also had a great show at the Lonesome Dove Showdown with her her chickens!
She won Champion Standard bird and Reserve Champion Show Bird!

WTG Hannah!

Several Denton Floral Design students traveled to Allen to compete in the Once Upon a Vine Floral Cup.

Congrats to Cami O for winning 6th place in the advanced division!

This was everyone’s (including Ms. Stallings) first floral cup so we are so incredibly proud of their hard work!

🌾✨ FFA Senior Spotlight — Tara Ernst ✨🌾
We're shining the spotlight on one of our own! Meet Tara Ernst, a 12th grader who has spent 3 years in agriculture and has made an incredible impact on our chapter!
📚 Classes Taken:
Agricultural Mechanics, Floral Design, Agricultural Structures Lab & Project Based Research in Agriculture Science
🐐 Ag Projects:
Market Goat — shoutout to the one and only, Braxton!
🏆 Competitions:
CDE — Horse Judging
👑 Queen Contest:
Tara did an amazing job representing Denton FFA in the Queen Contest at DCYLA! We couldn't be more proud of the grace and heart she showed representing our chapter!
👩‍🌾 A little about Tara:
"I am 17 years old and I yap a lot!" — We love that about you, Tara!
💛 Why she joined Ag:
"I joined ag because I wanted to do something different from what everyone else was doing — and I have no regrets."
🎖️ Why she became an officer:
"My first year at Denton I took Floral Design and learned about FFA, made friends with some of the officers, and went for it! I also wanted to put myself out there because I love learning new things."
🌟 Her favorite thing about Ag:
"How much my chapter makes me feel welcome! I love all the classes, the opportunities to try new things, meeting new people, and SHOWING!!!"
We are so proud of you, Tara! Thank you for everything you bring to our chapter. 💙💛

Congratulations to our students who participated in the Denton County Youth Fair on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Tuesday
🏅Tara Ernst placed 8th with her market goat but even more impressive is she over came her fear and gave a 👑Queen Speech in front of everyone in the stands! We are so proud of this girl for her courage and perseverance.

Wednesday
🏅Isabella Crook placed 4th with her Dorper lamb. The hard work she put in really showed!

🤠Come on out to the rodeo on Friday night and support Tara as she finds out her results!

It was a successful day for Denton FFA in Creative Arts and Horticulture at the Denton County Youth Fair!

We had four students enter.

🏆Grace Smith - Reserve Champion Floral

🏅Jordan Braudrick
- Best in Class - Quilt
- Red ribbon Leatherwork
- Red ribbon Texas Themed Arrangement

🏅Kenzie Talley
- Blue ribbon Vase Arrangement
- Red ribbon Texas Themed Arrangement

🏅Molly Beadle
- Red ribbon Container Arrangement

What a way to start the Denton County Your Fair. Cassidy Felipe, Maya Reigleman, Lili Otto, Lexi Walker and Hanna Taylor all competed in the Fancy Poultry Show.

Hannah Taylor placed: Reserve Variety Silver laced Wyandotte
Reserve Breed Wyandotte
Third place variety Wyandotte
4 th place overall American

Cassidy Felipe placed: second in Backyard birds standard division with her Onagadori
And 3rd place overall Backyard bird.
She also won Grand Champion Novice showmanship!!

Maya Reigleman placed: 3rd Backyard birds standard division with her Onagadori
And 4th place overall Backyard Bird.

Lexi Walker placed 6th.

So proud of all these girls for putting themselves out there and trying something new!

Had a great Saturday at the Clarendon College judging competition with some amazing girls! Students like these make us proud.

We want to take a moment and celebrate our FFA reporter!

Jordan participated in the calf scramble last week and caught a calf! She will be given a certificate that she can use to purchase a steer or heifer to show throughout the next show season.

We also want to take a moment and applaud her for her initiative yesterday as she stepped up and competed as the sole member of the floriculture team.

Way to lead Jordan!

📣 REMINDER: Denton ISD families, Friday, April 3 and Monday, April 6 will be regular school days for all students and staff. These dates will serve as the district’s built-in weather make-up days, recovering instructional time lost during January’s weather event.

Regular schedules will be followed both days. For high school campuses and Calhoun Middle School, April 3 will be a “B” day and April 6 will be an “A” day. 📅

Days like today are why we became Ag teachers! We took a great group of students to Tarleton to compete in: horse judging, livestock judging, veterinary medicine, floriculture, poultry judging, and entomology. Although we didn’t place in the awards these students showed their commitment and dedication by giving their best! So proud of them all!