Friends & Alumni of Peoria FFA

Hello everyone! Hope you all had a Thanksgiving full of great food, great company & many memories.

In case you didn't know, the 2026 Peoria FFA Mini Camp is just around the corner & will be here before you know it! We are putting out feelers to see if any families or businesses would be interested in sponsoring aspects of the camp to make Mini Camp a success!
We would be looking for the following:
$600 for breakfast or lunch for campers (that is for each, not total)
$500 for Peoria student dinner Friday night

Additionally, we welcome volunteers! Check out our form to sign up

2026 Peoria FFA Mini Camp Volunteer form This year's Mini Camp will be held January 23rd & 24th, 2026. While this is one of the largest student run camps in the country, they do need some "grown-up" help to make it what it is. Adult volunteers are needed for the following in chronological order: 4 Adult helpers for campers arrival, placing...

Are you or do you know a Peoria Ffa member who served in the military?
The chapter is looking to spotlight and honor our veterans leading up to Veterans Day this year. Please message this account or email [email protected] with a picture, a short paragraph, and a mailing address so the officer team can recognize them for their service on social media and with a personal Thank You card.

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30 of our outstanding FFA members traveled to Chino Valley today to compete on Leadership Development Events. They placed 1st Parli Pro, Conduct of Chapter Meetings, and Agriculture Issues and 2nd in Extemporaneously Speaking and Marketing Plan.

Please help support them as they go on to compete at the State FFA Leadership Conference in Tucson this June with your Arizona Tax Credit

Use this link
https://az-peoria-lite.intouchreceipting.com/
Fill out the form with "Peoria High School" and "Tax Credit Future Farmers of America" single filing can get up to $200 back off their 2025 state taxes and married filing can get $400. This money goes directly to helping with conference and competition costs such as hotel rooms. Thanks in advance for your support of our student!

Banquet season is upon us. Please contact [email protected] if you are interested in sponsoring a $80 jacket & scarf/tie for a student or a $200 proficiency award! Your sponsorship is considered a charitable contribution to a non-profit too!

Save the date!
May 1st will be Scoops for Thanks day for the FFA. Visit your local Culver's to support local & state FFA chapters! Plus, I hear that How Now Brown Cow is a favorite of a Peoria Ffa advisor

So incredibly excited for the Peoria Ffa Chapter to have earned a Gold rating for the National Chapter Award!!! Congratulations to James Kaltenbach, Kevin M. Norris, Kodie Raley & the incredible officer team for putting together & executing an outstanding program of activities that enrich everyone who is part of it as an individual & as a community. Peoria High School

Our students are putting on a petting zoo to increase agriculture literacy at Peoria. They are looking for some animals for the event on March 14. They are in the most need of traditional agriculture animals, like cattle, sheep, goats, etc.

We would be happy to take care of transportation to and from if you have any critters we could borrow.

Here is the info on the Peoria Ffa story
https://www.facebook.com/share/14uF1GrEBJ/

What a great weekend! A HUGE thank you goes out to all of the parents, recent graduates & other Friends & Alumni of Peoria FFA for showing out at this year's Peoria FFA Mini Leadership Camp to help make things go for the FFA members & Arizona Association FFA Executive Secretary Mrs. Bethany Matos & staff for your help on the systems aspect of camp!
An even bigger shout out to the Peoria FFA advisors misters Kevin Norris & James Kaltenbach & Mrs. Kodie Raley for all of the hard work you all put in to make it the best camp ever (an equally large shout out for baby Raley who allowed Mrs. Raley to make it through camp & holding off on their grand entrance into this world).
Now for the largest shout out to the Peoria FFA members who put on an unbelievably excellent camp for ~400 of their peers!

Our 48th Annual Peoria Mini Leadership Camp take place on January 24-25 this year. We will be hosting over 300 fellow FFA members at our campus from across the state of Arizona for over 24 hours of leadership and career skill building, networking and connecting with their fellow FFA members.


We can use some help in the following areas:



Lunch preparation meeting up at Friday at 3:00 PM in the Lyle Wright AgriScience and Industrial Technology Building (Ag Building) shop to move over to the culinary arts kitchen


Dance Supervision starting at 8:45 PM until 11:00 PM at the Cafeteria

Breakfast service from 6:30 AM until 8:00 AM at the Cafeteria


Lunch preparation and set up starting at 9:00 AM on Saturday

Lunch service starting at 10:30 until Noon.

If you are interested in helping for one or more of these needs, please let me know!

Thank you to everyone who came out to support us in supporting our students! I know the number doesn't seem large, but to put it in perspective this could buy ~2 FFA jackets & accompanying neck wear & as we all can attest to, your first FFA jacket is priceless!!!!