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Annual FFA Section 25 Ag Mechanics Competition Held at SIC

May 8, 2015
Massac County High School's FFA Chapter won first place team overall at the 2015 FFA Section 25 Ag Mechanics Competition at Southeastern Illinois College with sponsor, Cody Smith. Pictured are front row (l-r): Clayton Obermark, Jakob Korte, Keeton Reynolds, Lyndsey Watson, Kyle Adkins and Jacob Blanchard. Back row (l-r): Logan Loverkamp, Wyatte Weaver, Caleb Parks, Warren Blanchard, Drake Brinker and Ben Pravis.
Joppa High School's FFA Chapter won second place team overall at the 2015 FFA Section 25 Ag Mechanics Competition at Southeastern Illinois College with sponsor, Larry Durham. Pictured are front row (l-r): Blake Wright and Gabby Wrye. Back row (l-r): Hunter Johnson, Gavin Blanchard, Daniel Meyer, Dylan Sexton and Nathan McLelland.
NCOE High School's FFA Chapter earned the third place award at the 2015 FFA Section 25 Ag Mechanics Competition at Southeastern Illinois College with sponsor, Josh Billingsly. Pictured are (l-r): Andy Brinkley, Byron Bridges, Aaron Foley, Austin Caudill, Tim Brinkley and Matthew Nelson.
First place individual awards went to (l-r): Gavin Blanchard of Joppa in Carpentry, Drake Brinker of Massac County in Surveying, Jakob Korte in Electricity, Matthew Nelson of Norris City in Ag Power and Josh Karcher of Hamilton County in Welding.
Eldorado High School's FFA Chapter participated at the 2015 FFA Section 25 Ag Mechanics Competition at Southeastern Illinois College with sponsor, Bill Kittinger. Pictured are front row (l-r): JP Fitzpatrick and Tristan Williams. Back row (l-r): Paxton Morse, Christian Stanley, Tyler Gass, Brandon Powell and Tyler Worley.
Galatia High School's FFA Chapter participated at the 2015 FFA Section 25 Ag Mechanics Competition at Southeastern Illinois College with sponsor, Tim Arnold. Pictured are front row (l-r): Patrick Anderson and Beau Tate. Second row (l-r): Scott Gates, John Mitchell Jr., Austin Stevens, Eli Bond and Becky Gregory. Back row (l-r), Will Pulliam, Bryan Davenport, Matt Horton, Ethan Avery, Garrett Beers and Corissa Price.
Hamilton County High School's FFA Chapter participated at the 2015 FFA Section 25 Ag Mechanics Competition at Southeastern Illinois College with sponsor, C.R. Sloan. Pictured are (l-r): Sean Paul Trotter, Jacob Kaufman, Kaleb Burris and Josh Karcher.
Hardin County High School's FFA Chapter participated at the 2015 FFA Section 25 Ag Mechanics Competition at Southeastern Illinois College with sponsor, Ashlin Wilke. Pictured are (l-r): Ryder Flener, Dalton Conn and Ashlin Wilke (advisor).
Harrisburg High School's FFA Chapter participated at the 2015 FFA Section 25 Ag Mechanics Competition at Southeastern Illinois College with sponsor, Nick James. Pictured are (l-r): Jonathan Smith, Carter Rice, Tyler Salus and Travis Cluck.

Vocational-technical students from a number of local high schools in southeastern Illinois competed recently in the areas of carpentry, surveying, welding, electricity and Ag power. Southeastern Illinois College once again served as host of the Annual FFA Section 25 Ag Mechanics Competition.

Eight of the 12 Section 25 schools, including Eldorado, Galatia, Hamilton County, Harrisburg, Hardin County, Joppa, Massac County and Norris City spent a day on SIC’s campus testing their mechanical skills and learning about careers in agriculture. There were 61 student participants and 10 sponsors present for the event.

The first place overall team award for team competition went to Massac County’s FFA chapter. Joppa High School’s chapter took second place team overall followed by Norris City- Omaha- Enfield team in third.

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