CHALLENGER

Apollo High School Owensboro, Ky 42301 September, 2003

Apollo receives 3 star rating

by Jennifer Lee
Senior Editor

Apollo’s FFA attended the 75th national convention on Friday October 31st. A bus of about 60 FFA members traveled to Louisville Kentucky to take part in a yearly tradition that the entire FFA nation is involved in. The convention is a time for all FFA members to get together and recognize programs and state organizations and to give American degrees.

This year the Apollo FFA received 7 American degrees. We also received a 3 star national rank, which is the highest honor you can get. A group of our FFA was able to attend the convention all week. These members were Andrew Osbourne, Andrew England, Jimmy Gillise, Larry Wedding, Cara Culberson, Kendra Gossett, Carrie Simmons, Susan Kuegel, and Bridget Schadler.

While they were there they attended many sessions where they went for meetings,attended dances, and they walked around visiting the booths that were set up all around Freedom Hall.

Susan Kuegel entered into the talent competition while she was there. She sang in front of 40 thousand people on Saturday November 1st. She sang a song that was written for Stephen Coke, a big member of our FFA who died in a car accident last school year.

Andrew Osbourne, our FFA president says, “We are able to meet members of the FFA that we would never be able to meet any other time. 50 thousand people are brought together for youth assembly, it’s a feeling that you’ll never forget.”