Olympia FFA students Bailey Rogers and Josie Litwiller attend FFA Leadership Camp

 

[August 15, 2018] 

FFA Leadership has been around for many years and each year, kids come back wanting to go again!

This year the Olympia FFA Chapter sent two junior girls, Bailey Rogers and Josie Litwiller. When these best friends arrived at the camp they realized they had to stay in different cabins and they had to hang out with different groups. The girls were a little intimidated at first but at the end of the four-day camp, the girls were very glad they got to meet new friends that they know will last a lifetime.

At the camp, the girls got to participate in group bonding and Ag Olympics.

The group bonding took place in a forest where they had to walk down paths to get to a challenge. A few of the challenges included a 12-foot wall, a tire game and “sardines”.

The favorite activity of most campers was the 12-foot wall. In this activity you had to get all of your group, which consisted of FFA members all shapes and sizes, over a 12-foot tall wall. This forced your group to work together and use leadership to get every member over the wall.

These group bonding activities helped the campers to become more social and become great leaders. In Ag Olympics, the girls got to participate in many games as a group going against other groups.

A few of the games were blind volleyball, greasy watermelon, and tug of war. In all of these activities, the girls had to work with their group and use leadership to win the games.

Throughout the whole week Josie said that she loved getting to know her group and making new friends! She said that she can’t wait to see her new friends at other FFA events such as National Convention. Bailey said that her favorite part of camp were the challenge courses because she got to get to know her whole group a lot better.

Both of the girls had an amazing time at camp and they both learned a lot about being a better leader which they will bring back to FFA in this coming year.

[Josie Litwiller]