Students Attend Ag Skills Competition at CVTC
Friday, March 10th, 2017 -- 10:14 AM
-Students from 15 high schools attended the Ag Skills Competition this year, which included tours of CVTC’s Energy Education Center where the college agriculture programs are housed, interaction with CVTC Agriscience students, and a trip to the nearby Eau Claire Farm Show.CVTC holds the Ag Skills competition each year so high school students from a wide area can come to Eau Claire for a day of ag education. The Dairy competition involves teams of students completing tasks at multiple stations, like evaluating feed rations, determining a proper medicinal dosage for a cow, and identifying common animal science tools. There were also competitions in Agronomy and Floriculture. A Stanley-Boyd team finished first in the Floriculture contest and student Ben Milas was second in Agronomy. Two Stanly-Boyd teams finished third and fourth with 92 and 90 points in the Dairy contest behind two Chippewa Falls teams with 94 and 93 points.
“We teach Horticulture and Animal Science classes with CVTC transcripted credit, so it’s good for the students to come here and see that what they are learning is what is being taught to college-level students,” said Amy Gerhardt, Agriscience teacher at Neillsville High School. “Plus this is good preparation for the contest in River Falls they have coming up.” “I’m getting experience and putting my knowledge to the test and maybe furthering by knowledge of stuff I didn’t know,” said Neillsville student Don Cappadora.
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