Senior Nora Hoy will represent the Tyrone FFA as a finalist in the National FFA Agriscience Fair at the FFA Convention and Expo in Indianapolis, Indiana on October 23-26.
First-place winners from each state qualify for the national judging, where a panel of judges reviews entries and selects up to 10 projects in each category and division to advance to the national competition. For a complete list of results, click here.
“I feel both nervous and excited,” Hoy said. “I will be competing against some outstanding projects, but I am honored to be part of the experience and represent our school and FFA Chapter at the national level.”
To participate, FFA members in grades 7-12 must conduct a scientific research project related to agriculture and win at their state’s FFA agriscience fair.
Competitors can enter into one of six pathways: animal systems; environmental services/natural resource systems; food products and processing systems; plant systems; power, structural, and technical systems; or social science. Each pathway has six divisions: individuals in grades 7-8, teams in grades 7-8, individuals in grades 9-10, teams in grades 9-10, individuals in grades 11-12, and teams in grades 11-12.
Hoy’s project, “The Daily Dose of Sodium” surveyed participants to ask their perception of the sodium content of popular snacks. Hoy learned that most Americans underestimate the amount of sodium they consume in popular snacks.
Other Tyrone FFA members who placed at states were Frances and Remington Weaver who earned a bronze medal in the Food Products and Processing Pathway, Division 6. Paige Hoy received a bronze in the Plant Systems category, Division 3, and Maverick Fleck was awarded a bronze in the Environmental and Natural Resources pathway, Division 5.
The National FFA Organization is a school-based leadership development group with over 1,027,200 student members across 9,235 local chapters in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
