The National Teen Ag Competition was held at Lincoln University on Friday 4 July and Ella Sanderson and Holly Malcom (High Country Hillbillies), and Georgia Malcom and Brittany Caldwell (Gumboot Girls) traveled to represent the Aorangi region. A 60 minutes written quiz at 8am in frosty conditions began the one day event followed by a series of seven modules covering everything from agricultural research through to safety and stock handling. The final event in the initial stage of the competition was to put their observation abilities to the test by watching a brief powerpoint on how to electrically charge pencils and then seeing how well they had made notes of the instructions by replicating the experiment! Whilst they were not fortunate enough to get to the race off stage the two teams had a fantastic day and did well to bring girls in farming to the fore. The Saturday following the competition gave the teams a chance to socialise with all of the other Teen Ag teams and meet the "adult" Young Farmer competitors who were competing during the same weekend.
The SKC Young Farmers Club are looking forward to the challenge of preparing for next year's Teen Ag Competition and students who would like to be involved can speak to one of the High Country Hillbillies or the Gumboot Girls.
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