Agricultural Proficiency

Handbook (2006 - 2010)

Proficiency Handbook (all - 9MB)

Handbook Sections

Handbook Index

Information & Rubrics

Award Areas
Timeline
Entrepreneurship Rubric (Excel)
Placement Rubric (Excel)
Judge Recommendations
Awards Review Sheet
SAE PowerPoint presentations for classroom use

Applications

Help Documents

Award/Judging Results (2009)

2009 Proficiency Award Winners

Results by State - Proficiency

Contact Program Manager

If you need assistance with any of the documents, have questions or help.

Contact proficiency@ffa.org

The Agricultural Proficiency Awards program like the FFA motto, helps you set goals and learn practical skills. The program rewards FFA members at the local, state and national levels for exceptional accomplishments and excellence in a Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) program.

2009 Proficiency Award Results

2009 proficiency award winners

2009 proficiency award rankings

Announcement for 2009

New award area: Veterinary Medicine

In 2009 Veterinary Medicine will be separate from Small Animal Care. The description for Veterinary Medicine will be: SAE enterprises using the best management practices available to provide health care for large and small animals. Programs can include wage earning, entrepreneurial or exploratory activities at large animal hospitals, research facilities or veterinary clinics.

Starting for the 2009 application process, the description for Small Animal Care will be: SAE enterprises using the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market small pet animals such as rabbits, cats, dogs, mice, hedgehogs, guinea pigs, etc. and programs that typically provide a service in caring for the well being of pets. Programs could include working at a pet shop, groomer, dog trainer, providing pet sitting services or working at a kennel.

Student/Teacher Information

Application Deadline: July 15th

What are the proficiency award areas?

Proficiency Award Areas

Proficiency Award Area Descriptions
Awards are available to all FFA members enrolled in high school agriculture, including special needs students. There are 47 Award areas.

Unsure what award area you should apply in?
Check out the new alphabetical SAE listing tool
SAE Alphabetical Listing

What is a Rubric?
Rubrics are used by judges to score your application. Get a step ahead and score it yourself to see where you need to improve your application.

Looking for the Chapter Certificates powerpoint?
Chapter Certificates (Microsoft Office Powerpoint, zipped file)
The chapter certificates powerpoint is for PC computers only. If you have a Macintosh, contact (317) 802-4255.

FAX # for award medal request form: 1-800-366-6556

Supervised Agricultural Technology (Career Pathway) Grants Deadline
2009 application due date is November 15, 2009. For more information, check out the Supervised Agricultural Experience home page on the FFA website.
http://www.ffa.org/index.cfm?method=c_programs.SAE

Sponsor Listing ( Posted March 17, 2009)

Application Tips

DON'T GET DISQUALIFIED:
Information regarding changing the applications

If the application is altered in any way, it will be SUBJECT TO DISQUALIFICATION. This includes copying application into a word document, altering the space given for responses for any questions or changing the font size below 10 points. For fairness, all applicants must respond to questions in the space provided.

DUAL PARTICIPATION:
Members who have qualified to participate in more than one category of National FFA Award or Recognition Activities, e.g. CDEs and Agriscience or Agriscience and Proficiency or Stars finalist must notify their state staff within 5 working days after being selected or certified to participate. State staff will contact appropriate program coordinator to determine if accomodations for dual participation can be arranged. Under no circumstances will the accommodation impact the published schedule, overall integrity of the event or other participants' ability to be fairly evaluated.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
Microsoft Office is no longer supporting versions lower than Microsoft Office 2000. Due to that, we are requiring software to be Microsoft Office 2000. Some of the capabilities may work with Microsoft Office 97; however, we can not guarantee it. In order for the calculations to work you should recommend schools upgrade their software to the version 2000.

WHOLE NUMBERS (New Feature)
Every cell that has a monetary value. To avoid corruption of calculations we have put a warning on every monetary value cell to only put WHOLE NUMBERS, no decimals. If a decimal point or accidental space is entered, the warning box will pop up.

Applications not showing a zero in the cells that hold numbers.
Due to the new calculation that only allows "Whole Numbers" to be entered, the zeros do not show up in the number cells. This is across the board and all applications will appear the same.