FFA welcomes new officersAg program hosts Food for America

    At the 2019 annual FFA banquet, the FFA welcomes its newest leaders at The  Nest.

This includes President Gonzalo Revilla, Vice president of Committees, Megan Thomas, Vice President of POA Malinah Jercheid, Secretary- Shanyn Wolfe, Treasurer Chloe Romm,

As president. Revilla’s job is to “represent out chapter” and to make sure everything runs smoothly. In order to do this, the student plans on keeping track on his tasks by “making a lot of lists” and prioritizing tasks.

    The president’s main goal is to “change our reputation.” Revilla says that “many hear the name FFA and automatically think farming. In fact, he believes “ the main reason why people don’t join this organization is because they don’t want to be farmers.” Revilla wants to change this stereotype and open the club to more people.

Revilla’s passion is Natural Resources and FFA gives the opportunity to dive deeper in this agricultural realm of science. FFA is an organization in where you can work with all our animals. “Even if you don’t want to go into the agricultural field in the future FFA is a place where you can grow plants for fun, or work with our animals and fish on your free times.”

 Revilla adds that “The opportunities that FFA offers in agriculture are endless and I hope that many of our North Harford students realize that our organization can offer.”

    The new president pledges that his new team of officers will work to make a “great year for our chapter and our main goal is to increase the knowledge of agriculture throughout our school and community.”
  In recent weeks, FFA students and others have put their leadership in action as they hosted  Food for America, an event where students have the opportunity to “spread knowledge of agriculture throughout the county.” 700 children from across Harford came to The Nest to learn about where food comes from and animals, including the aquaculture center.

    Revilla believes that “teaching kids about agriculture is essential, especially while they’re young because they are the future of agriculture weather they like it or not.” Being in charge of “keeping our earth clean, passing legislation on agriculture, and even working in agriculture, and by allowing kids to travel to our school we allow them to look at how beautiful our earth is and how important it is to maintain it.”