FORT RECOVERY – Arcanum MVCTC FFA members competed in the District 5 Ag Mechanics Skills Contest hosted at Fort Recovery High School. Members of the team were Matthew Denlinger, Henry Weiss, and Weston Stephens.
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 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 Fort Loramie. Members of the Outdoor Power Team were Weston Stephens, Matthew Denlinger, and Hudson Knaus.
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 2nd in the district and qualified for the State Finals at Ohio State ATI in Wooster. At the State finals the team finished 7th in the State.