VERSAILLES – The Versailles FFA Floriculture Team, consisting of members Paige Gehret, Lucy Schmitmeyer, Margaret McGlinch, and Alayna Dirksen, achieved remarkable success in their recent competition. Paige Gehret earned 12th place overall, while Lucy Schmitmeyer secured 15th place out of a total of 282 participants.
The Floriculture Career Development Event (CDE) includes a rigorous set of challenges, such as an online exam, plant identification (including insects, diseases, supplies, and equipment), placing floral classes, and a practicums of making a bud vase and planting young plants.
This marks the first time the Versailles FFA has competed in this CDE, and the team placed an outstanding 7th overall out of 42 teams.
The team would like to thank Susan Ballinger of Nature Reflections for helping the team with bud vase practicum and supplying them with needed supplies for the contest and special thanks to Kim Cromwell of the Ohio Association of Garden Clubs for helping the team learn about their plants and placing classes.
Congrats to the Floriculture Team on their success!
