ABOUT NIPOMO FFA
Premier leadership.
Personal growth.
Career Success.
Nipomo FFA was founded in August of 2002 upon the opening of Nipomo High School. During the first few years, the agriculture department was located on the main high school campus, and had only one agriculture teacher. The program eventually expanded to two teachers before outgrowing its facilities.
In 2007, the agriculture department moved onto "Ag Island" where it is located today. The facilities include an agriculture mechanics shop, greenhouse, shade house, and three classroom facilities. The agriculture department now has four teachers, and over 350 students in the FFA program.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
FFA MISSION
FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.
To accomplish its mission, FFA:
-
Develops competent and assertive agricultural leadership.
-
Increases awareness of the global and technological importance of agriculture and its contribution to our well-being.
-
Strengthens the confidence of agriculture students in themselves and their work.
-
Promotes the intelligent choice and establishment of an agricultural career.
-
Encourages achievement in supervised agricultural experience programs.
-
Encourages wise management of economic, environmental and human resources of the community.
-
Develops interpersonal skills in teamwork, communications, human relations and social interaction.
-
Builds character and promotes citizenship, volunteerism and patriotism.
-
Promotes cooperation and cooperative attitudes among all people.
-
Promotes healthy lifestyles.
-
Encourages excellence in scholarship
OUR HISTORY
OUR ROOTS
Founded in 1928, the Future Farmers of America brought together students, teachers and agribusiness to solidify support for agricultural education. In Kansas City's Baltimore Hotel, 33 young farm boys charted a course for the future. They could not have foreseen how the organization would grow and thrive.
Since 1928, millions of agriculture students - no one knows exactly how many - have donned the official FFA jacket and championed the FFA creed. FFA has opened its doors and its arms to minorities and women, ensuring that all students could reap the benefits of agricultural education.
Today, the National FFA Organization remains committed to the individual student, providing a path to achievement in premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. Now, the organization is expanding the nation's view of "traditional" agriculture and finding new ways to infuse agriculture into the classroom.
THE FFA CREED
I believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words but of deeds - achievements won by the present and past generations of agriculturists; in the promise of better days through better ways, even as the better things we now enjoy have come to us from the struggles of former years.
I believe that to live and work on a good farm, or to be engaged in other agricultural pursuits, is pleasant as well as challenging; for I know the joys and discomforts of agricultural life and hold an inborn fondness for those associations which, even in hours of discouragement, I cannot deny.
I believe in leadership from ourselves and respect from others. I believe in my own ability to work efficiently and think clearly, with such knowledge and skill as I can secure, and in the ability of progressive agriculturists to serve our own and the public interest in producing and marketing the product of our toil.
I believe in less dependence on begging and more power in bargaining; in the life abundant and enough honest wealth to help make it so--for others as well as myself; in less need for charity and more of it when needed; in being happy myself and playing square with those whose happiness depends upon me.
I believe that American agriculture can and will hold true to the best traditions of our national life and that I can exert an influence in my home and community which will stand solid for my part in that inspiring task.
The creed was written by E. M. Tiffany, and adopted at the 3rd National Convention of the FFA. It was revised at the 38th Convention and the 63rd Convention. The Creed serves as a statement of the philosophy and beliefs of the National FFA Organization. Freshman FFA members routinely compete in the Creed Recitation Competition which involves memorizing the Creed word for word and answering a series of questions about their own personal feelings about the FFA Creed.task.
