Virgil H Cooper Scholarships were presented on May 9, 2023 to several area students from the Cooper family scholarship funds: Virgil H Cooper Scholarship, Oakwood Alumni Scholarship and Oakwood Bobcat Scholarship. Alaina Stuckey of Hicksville High School. Receiving Virgil H Cooper Scholarship from Dianne Cooper May 5, 2023. Pictured here are PHS recipients of Virgil…
By: Paulding FFA Reporter, Caydence Rue On Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 was National Ag Day. The Paulding FFA Chapter held their annual Tractor Drive-in day on Friday, March 24th to celebrate National Ag Day. The chapter feels that this is a great way to pay tribute to our farmers. There were many students who…
By: Caydence Rue, Reporter On Tuesday, February 10th, the Ag Sales team competed at the district contest at Spencerville High School. The team consisted of Jamy Hunt, Maci Kauser, Brooke Kilgore, and Mason Schlatter. The agricultural sales competition consists of four different parts. The first is an online test to determine who will be on…
By: Caydence Rue, Paulding FFA Reporter At the end of January, the Paulding FFA secretary, treasurer, and reporter’s books were evaluated and graded. The chapter received not only a gold rating on all three books but they all also got a perfect score! The chapter is so proud of Jamy Hunt, Jalyn Klopfenstein, and Caydence…
By: Caydence Rue, Paulding FFA Reporter Recently, seven Paulding FFA officers and their Ag teacher Mrs. Staci Miller traveled to Huntington Indiana for the 9th Annual FFA leadership Summit held at Huntington University. At this conference, the officers toured Huntington’s campus. The tour was given by Paulding FFA Alumni Sydney Reineck who is majoring…
By: Caydence Rue, Paulding FFA Reporter On November 8th, the Aquarium Management team consisting of Carter Manz, Jamy Hunt, Clayton Manz, and Tyler Schlatter competed at the Ohio State Fairgrounds in the State Aquarium CDE. The members had to identify different types of freshwater and saltwater fish, aquarium equipment, take a written test, and complete…
By: Caydence Rue, Paulding FFA Reporter Recently, 4 Paulding FFA members headed to Seneca East High School for the District Job Interview CDE. They were able to compete at the district level after placing 1st or 2nd in the sub-district job interview at Crestview on November 1st. Paulding had the following members compete at districts:…
By: Paulding FFA Reporter, Caydence Rue On October 25-29, thousands of FFA chapters from across the nation including 12 Paulding FFA members, traveled to Indianapolis, Indiana for the 95th Annual National FFA Convention. The members had a busy schedule full of educational and leadership experiences that allowed them to learn more about agriculture and FFA. …
By: Caydence Rue, Paulding FFA Reporter On Wednesday, October 19th, the Paulding FFA Chapter had 23 members travel around Paulding County feeding the farmers in the fields. The chapter first started doing this service project three years ago and it’s one of their favorite projects to do each year. The chapter found that it…
By: Paulding FFA Reporter, Caydence Rue On September 28th, the Paulding FFA Officer Team kicked off their youth program at Oakwood Elementary. Oakwood Youth for Ag (OYA) is a hands-on learning experience for the sixth graders that helps expand their views on agriculture. There will be two FFA officers going over to Oakwood each month…
By: Caydence Rue, Paulding FFA Reporter On Wednesday September 28th, five Paulding FFA officers traveled down to Columbus for the Ohio Legislative Leadership Conference. The officers included Secretary Jamy Hunt, Reporter Caydence Rue, Treasurer Jalyn Klopfenstein, Sentinel Kobe Foor, Student Advisor Brooke Kilgore and their FFA advisor, Mrs. Jen Bradford. In the morning, these students…
By: Paulding FFA Reporter Caydence Rue On Monday September 5th the Paulding FFA Chapter had 28 members walk in the Oakwood Homecoming parade to represent our chapter. Then there were 10 members that stayed to help with kids games and activities. The kids were able to play nine square in the air, dig through a…
By: Caydence Rue, Paulding FFA Reporter The Paulding FFA Chapter recently took 34 students to the Ohio FFA State Convention held May 4th-6th at the Ohio State Fairgrounds. The chapter left on May 4th and got to tour MVP Dairy in Celina on the way down to convention. On the tour the students learned about…
