Miami East-MVCTC FFA Receives Two Grants from National FFA Organization
INDIANAPOLIS (September 15, 2015) -- The Miami East-MVCTC FFA chapter in Casstown, Ohio has been awarded two $2,000 grants from the National FFA Organization's Living To Serve: Environmental and Natural Disaster & Emergency Preparedness Grant programs. The chapter has developed two year-long service-learning projects to meet an environmental need and local emergency or natural disaster need. Both grants were provided through funding from CSX and Bayer, as a special project of the National FFA Foundation.
The Living To Serve: Environmental Grant will allow the Miami East-MVCTC Chapter to 1) offer a spring community educational and testing night of well water and soil, 2) offer 40 hours of community clean up by third and fourth year FFA members, and 3) collaborate with the Ohio State University Miami County Extension Service to offer a beginning beekeeping course in October 2015. The overall goal of the program is to increase the water, soil, and bee health while improving the environmental appearance of the community.
During the Natural Disaster & Emergency Preparedness Grant program, the Miami East-MVCTC FFA Chapter will prepare print, radio, and television Public Service Announcements prior to the winter harsh weather season with the cooperation of the Ohio State University Miami County Extension Service. Additionally, the chapter will prepare 20 emergency kits for community members for prolonged harsh winter weather. The overall goal of the program is to help educate and prepare the community for severe seasonal weather.
These projects illustrate the final line of the FFA motto ("Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve") by encouraging FFA members to unite in service within their communities. The Living To Serve: Environmental and the Natural Disaster & Emergency Preparedness Grants take community service one step further to service-learning, which provides a meaningful way to apply leadership and education skills learned in school and FFA.
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About Bayer
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, agriculture and high-tech materials. Bayer CropScience, the subgroup of Bayer AG responsible for the agricultural business, has annual sales of EUR 9,494 million (2014) and is one of the world’s leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of seeds, crop protection and non-agricultural pest control. The company offers an outstanding range of products including high value seeds, innovative crop protection solutions based on chemical and biological modes of action as well as an extensive service backup for modern, sustainable agriculture. In the area of non-agricultural applications, Bayer CropScience has a broad portfolio of products and services to control pests from home and garden to forestry applications. The company has a global workforce of 23,100 and is represented in more than 120 countries. This and further news is available at: www.press.bayercropscience.com.
About National FFA Organization
The National FFA Organization, formerly known as Future Farmers of America, is a national youth organization of 540,379 student members as part of 7,489 local FFA chapters in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The FFA mission is to make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. The National FFA Organization operates under a federal charter granted by the 81st United States Congress and it is an integral part of public instruction in agriculture. The U.S. Department of Education provides leadership and helps set direction for FFA as a service to state and local agricultural education programs. For more, visit the National FFA Organization online (http://www.ffa.org), on Facebook (http://facebook.com/nationalffa), on Twitter (http://twitter.com/nationalffa) and FFA Nation (http://ffanation.ffa.org).
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