Lubbock ISD Agricultural Education

Our Advanced Floral Design students created a stunning ofrenda in celebration of Día de los Mu***os (Day of the Dead) — a tradition that honors and remembers loved ones who have passed. 💛

Students hand-made every element, from the tissue paper to make the colorful papel picado to over 1,000 coffee filters to make the flowers!🌼 Their creativity and respect for cultural artistry truly shine through in this beautiful display.

🥉 3rd Place in the Nation 🥉

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Talkington FFA students, Margaret Sawyer and Olivia Mercado for placing 3rd in the country with their Agriscience Fair Project!!

We are extremely proud of their efforts and the way they continue to represent Talkington, AgriSTEM and Lubbock ISD!

We’d also like to send a special THANK YOU to the FiberMax Center for Discovery, Krysti Kelley, AgTexas Farm Credit Services, Dan and Linda Taylor, as well as so many other community stakeholders that support our mission of

‼️ National Convention Alert ‼️

Tune in on the Second General Session of the 98th Annual National FFA Convention and Expo to watch Olivia and Margaret walk the Stage for their Agriscience Fair Project results! Session goes live at 1 pm (CT)

Also, use this link all week to stream the convention through Saturday!

https://convention.ffa.org/ffa-live/

🎃 Halloween Week 🎃

Mr. Hamlin had a lot of fun this week dressing up and welcoming our students to AgriSTEM! He certainly has a way of keeping our program fun and spirited!

What do you think he should dress up as next?!

Our students gained some more great experience today competing at the Texas Tech University Invitational Leadership Development Contest! We had Estacado students competing in Radio Broadcasting, as well as Coronado, Monterey and Talkington students competing in the FFA Creed! Thank you Texas Tech Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources for hosting a wonderful contest!

Our district contest is just right around the corner and students are working hard to get ready!

🌾Brown Elementary Career Day 🌾

Monterey FFA officers, representing each pathway highlighted some wonderful ag careers at their career day! In the next 50 years, we are going to need to produce 100% more food than we do today. Careers in agriculture involve science, technology, engineering and math, now more than ever!

It’s always a great day when students help inspire the next generation of agricultural leaders!

Attention Seniors!

If you’ve shown in Lubbock County for the past 3 years, consider applying for this scholarship!

Students in our Wildlife and ENR pathway have been learning the basics of archery the last few days! This skill requires discipline, accuracy, and patience.

They even had a little friendly competition in class! Congrats to our Top 3 Archers:
🥇1st place - Jeffry Barrera
🥈2nd place - Landon Wolfe
🥉3rd place - Leyton Haill

Great job everyone!

🥩 It was a fun week in Food Science 🥩

We launched our AgriSTEM “Jerky of the Month” subscription to LISD staff! We have plans to extend it to the public in the spring.

Each month, our students will trim, slice, marinate, and dehydrate a different flavor of beef jerky. Allowing them to gain hands-on experience processing a raw product and creating a desirable, high-value consumer end product.

The label is student designed through a cross-curricular callaboration with students in Ms. Olden’s Graphic Design Class at the Byron Martin Advanced Technology Center. Each month will feature a different students’ artwork!

For October, we went with a classic “Original”! Our students enjoyed learning more about this process and are excited to get working on next month’s jerky!

We were excited to have Cavazos and Mackenzie Middle Schools swing by AgriSTEM today to catch a glimpse of what a future in agriculture may look like!

It’s been a great week for our students so far - some Lubbock High Officers attended a “Women in Ag” networking event over the weekend, Monterey Officers had a planning meeting, and some Talkington students competed at some different LDE contests! It’s fun seeing the work our students are putting in and the program they are helping build at AgriSTEM!