ARCANUM – Arcanum MVCTC FFA members competed in the District 5 Ag Mechanics Skills Contest hosted at Upper Valley Career Center. Members of the team were Hudson Knaus, Callum Chadwick and Logan Besecker. The purpose of the Ag Mechanics Skills Contest is to assess the students’ skills in agricultural mechanics that occur in maintenance and repair. Students demonstrated the proper use of tools and applied their tool use and knowledge to daily situations in agricultural mechanical environments. Some of the activities students completed were: Welding, Electrical Soldering, Pipe Flaring and Fuel Identification. The team finished 3rd in the district.
Another hands-on mechanical contest was the Outdoor Power Contest, which was held in Tri-Star in Celina. Members of the Outdoor Power Team were Logan Besecker, Callum Chadwick and Creed Denlinger. The Outdoor Power Equipment Career Development Event (CDE) is an extension of the Agricultural Education classroom and laboratory. Additionally, this CDE serves as an authentic assessment designed to evaluate students’ knowledge in recognizing and repairing malfunctions in outdoor power equipment. The skills Agricultural Education students employ in this CDE are the same skills required by outdoor power equipment technicians. The team finished 8th in the District.
