Lincoln Winner is a senior at Versailles High School and participates in the Agriculture Education Capstone Program and has been selected as the Capstone Highlight Student of the Month.
The Versailles Agriculture Education Capstone Program is in its thirteen years of existence. Lincoln is the son of Brian and Lisa Winner of North Star, Ohio. Capstone is a program that gives Versailles High School Junior and Senior Students who are enrolled in agriculture education an opportunity to gain real-world employment experiences and opportunities while in high school.
Lincoln has worked over 9,000 hours at Brian Winner Farms LLC since his enrollment in agriculture education class. Lincoln’s primary roles at Brian Winner Farms LLC include: feeding, sorting, vaccinating, treating, tagging, loading, and castrating cattle. In addition, Lincoln plants and combines corn, drive the grain cart, hauls corn, rakes, cuts and bales hay. Lincoln performs service work on equipment and performs fall tillage work.
Brian and Lisa Winner of Brian Winner Farms LLC Farms, is quoted as saying, “Lincoln is an ambitious employee who looks forward to the challenges each day.”
He shows up in a timely manner ready to work, he sees things to do, he has initiative.” Lincoln plans to join the family farm after graduation.
Brian Winner Farms LLC is owned and operated by Brian and Lisa Winner and was started in 1999. Brian Winner Farms LLC is a diversified crop and livestock operation that raises corn, alfalfa and wheat and finishes out market beef steers and heifers cattle and has a herd of beef cows.
This year 53 students are enrolled in the Versailles Agriculture Education Capstone programs and are leaving school after their daily required courses are complete and working at area businesses. The goal of the spotlight is to highlight each month one of the students that participate in the capstone program and highlight the skills/knowledge they are gaining, and the roles/assets they are to their business. The students enrolled in capstone also use their employment as their Supervised Agricultural Experience Program. As part of their grade in capstone, students are required to keep detailed records of their hours worked, earnings and skills performed.
In addition to the record books, capstone students are being evaluated at the end of each nine weeks by an evaluation completed by their employer.
Congratulations to Lincoln and Thank you to Brian Winner Farms LLC for this opportunity.