2006 Chapter Awards

Gold Emblem Chapters

Pine Bluffs FFA
Pine Bluffs teaches elementary kids each year about safety on the farm, covering everything from electricity to elevator safety.  Through the harvest festival, which includes a kiddie carnival, lawnmower races, a Cajun cream can dinner and a dance, Pine Bluffs raised money for Hurricane Katrina. Local ranchers team up with Pine Bluffs for the Prospect Club Calf Project.  Students learn how to fit and show six calves that local ranchers let the students use in the National Western Stock Show and the NILE .  Advisor: Donn Randall.

Shoshoni FFA
Shoshoni brings the members together through events like the Chapter SAE Visit Day, Shoshoni Shut-In and the back-to-school barbeque.  They also contribute to the community by doing highway, farm and town clean-ups, adopting Boysen State Park for clean-up and maintenance, and assisting with the annual Christmas Food Drive.  Advisor: Crystal Wohlecke

Thermopolis FFA
Thermopolis divides and conquers when it comes to helping out the community through the buddy program.  A chapter officer and two or three chapter members team up and seek out community service projects around the community.  Thermopolis FFA’s petting zoo allows daycare and elementary-age kids to get hands-on experience with animals. Through their work sale and Greenhouse sale, Thermopolis FFA brings quality plants and services to the citizens of Thermopolis.  By planting their own flowers around the town, and posting Ag Support flyers at area businesses, this brings FFA into the public view.  Advisor: Britton Van Heule.

Cheyenne High Plains FFA
High Plains FFA strives to give all students the ability to participate in hands-on agriculture through the School-Farm Co-op.  They also create a sense of teamwork through the chapter officers’ retreat and the summer picinic.  The High Plains chapter cares for the community by helping with the Cheyenne Cowboy Kids’ Fest, and on a broader scale by fundraising and donating an impressive $800 directly to the Seeds of Hope Foundation in Louisville , Kentucky at National convention.  Advisor: Ty Berry.

Pinedale FFA
Pinedale FFA creates an environment for learning business and work ethics with their Christmas tree sales, and their chapter owned-and-operated business Blue and Gold Engraving.  They contribute to the Pinedale community through two Blood Drives with the United Blood services, a community appreciation breakfast and Christmas Carolling.  Advisor: Shawn Jeter.

John B. Kendrick FFA
The John B. Kendrick Chapter in Sheridan lets the community know that they care through serving a teacher appreciation lunch, and the Gold Buckle Club Dinner, and collecting and selling trees for the festival of trees, which goes to help support the special Olympics.  Through their family picnic, this chapter brings chapter members and families of the members close.  They added members to their chapter through the chapter recruitment days, and helped all in involved grow as leaders.  Advisor: Nick Siddle.

Buffalo FFA
The Buffalo FFA Chapter provides a teamwork environment through their Fun For All, a retreat during the summer that brings younger and older members together to get to know each other, as well as by taking the chapter bowling and skiing, and hosting a new member barbeque.  By helping area ranchers and assisting in building a new poultry barn for the Johnson County Fair, and by serving a faculty appreciation Dinner, Buffalo let the community know that they care.  Advisor: Jake Evans.

Lyman FFA
The Lyman FFA Chapter is a great supporter of their community, as they host an Alumni/Community BBQ, an Ag Expo for the youth of the area, a benefit rodeo and BBQ for the Locals for Locals program, and volunteering to help with the IPSSDR Sled dog race.  They promote student growth and success through morning peer tutoring sessions, and expand their horizons with the Ohio Chapter Exchange.  Advisor: Rex Hamner.

Snowy Range FFA
Snowy Range FFA supports Laramie by cleaning up trash around local businesses, the high school and the highway and by planting flowers all around town.  This chapter gets the name of FFA in public view by volunteering to serve at local dinner events for various organizations, and by helping out with the annual Ag Expo.  Members get to know each other and have a little fun through the monthly recreation activities.  Younger members get a feel for running things the Greenhand leadership team.  Advisor: Danielle Cox.

Buffalo Bill FFA
The Buffalo Bill FFA Chapter in Cody gathered new members through their eighth grade recruitment, and helped FFA members from around the region grow as leaders by hosting their own Leadership Camp.  By helping the Game and Fish relocate fish, assisting disabled persons in learning how to ride horses through the S.T.E.P.S. Program, teaching third grade students about agriculture through the Third Grade Exposition, and by raising money for Christmas Wish, This chapter supports the Cody community.  Advisor: Troy Wiant.

Southeast FFA
Southeast FFA helps and acknowledges the Yoder community with their Business of the quarter program, the Goshen County Class Reunions, Goshen County Ag Expo, and the giving tree.  New members are recruited through monthly junior high meetings.  They raise money for their chapter activities through fruit sales, and promote member growth through participation in Career development events, county and state fairs.  Advisor: Randy Epler