State DegreeTo Do List
- Record Book at
- State Degree Application
Completing your FFA Experience Record Book
Add your ag classes for ALL years
Profile -> About You “Record your school Ag class schedule”
Add at least ONE Office or Committee involvement
Profile -> Your Activities “Enter your FFA offices” and/or “Enter your FFA committee memberships”
Add at least 25hours of community service
Journal -> Your Time Entries “Time in your community service activities”
CANNOT be an SAE (something you also put in your Record Book journal)
Need TWO different types. Example- Campus Beatification AND Animal Shelter
Add at least 5 Chapter activities AND 5 Above Chapter Level activities
Journal -> Your Time Entries “Time in competition activities” and/or Time in other FFA activities”
- Include chapter FFA meetings. Call them different names such as “November meeting” and “December meeting”
- Don’t worry about exact dates
- Always check “Outside of Class”
Add a Parliamentary Procedure experience
Journal -> Your Time Entries “Time in other FFA activities”
Date 10/1/2014
Activity “Parliamentary Procedure Test”
Level “Chapter”
Type “Other”
Description “Passed”
Outside Class “1”
Add a Speech experience
Journal -> Your Time Entries “Time in other FFA activities”
Date 12/1/2014 (or other date if you can remember)
Activity “Agriculture Speech”
Level “Chapter”
Type “Speech”
Description: “Topic: _____ (should be agriculture related), Time: (at least 6 minutes)
Outside Class “1”
Add a Chapter Degree
Journal -> Your Time Entries “Time in other FFA activities”
Date 10/1/2014
Activity “FFA Chapter Degree”
Type “Other”
Level “Chapter”
Description: “Received FFA Chapter Degree”
Outside Class “1”
Completing your SAE Experience Record Book
Add your SAEs
Journal -> Experience Manager -> Add new
Create a Budget for each SAE
Journal -> Experience Manager -> $
Create an Agreement for each SAE
Journal -> Experience Manager -> Pencil
- There is an example agreement on the FFA website
- -> Students -> ASB -> FFA -> SAE
Log Hours for each Experience (At LEAST 500)
Journal -> Your Time Entries -> Time in your SAE Experience
Log Income and Expenses for each experience (AT LEAST 1000 net income OR 750 net plus 250 non-paid hours)
Finances
For Entrepreneur: Cash Entries
Include: Initial cost, cost to feed, cost of supplies, income from sell
For Placement: Include Paychecks
Complete the State Degree Application
Download State Degree Application from -> Students -> ASB -> FFA -> SAE
Choose “Cover Page” tab at the bottom. Fill in where applicable, print and get signatures needed.
Choose “Info Sheet” tab at the bottom. Fill out and print. They will use this sheet to write your Bio that will be read at the State Degree ceremony.