State DegreeTo Do List

  1. Record Book at
  2. 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”

  1. Include chapter FFA meetings. Call them different names such as “November meeting” and “December meeting”
  2. Don’t worry about exact dates
  3. 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

  1. There is an example agreement on the FFA website
  2. -> 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.