FFA Attends SLLC

SLLC (State Legislative Leadership Conference) was held in Harrisburg on April 18-20, 2012. Three sophomore Grassland FFA members attended: Clayton Lehman, Abbey Martin and Rachel Weaver. During this conference, members were given the opportunity to work with actual bills that were in the Pennsylvania house and senate that dealt with issues that impacted young people and agriculture. Students went through three workshops and learned about proper etiquette, how a bill goes through the system to become a law, and parliamentary procedure. Afterwards, the FFA members did some role-play and were split up into either the senate or the house to discuss the bills. The students were also involved in a service project to a retirement home, orphanage or church. On the final day of the conference, members met with, talked to, and ate breakfast with their state representative, Gordon Denlinger. The members took a tour of the capital. Everyone who attended from Garden Spot said that SLLC was the best conference they ever attended. The members were accompanied by student teacher Robyn Bechtel and FFA Advisor Bob Lauffer.

 

 

 

 

Can you find our three participants in the sea of blue on the steps of the capital?

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