Marissa Lundquist, Julianna Thompson, Derek Rennicke, and Nicole Dittbrenner of the Luck FFA attended the 212 and 360 Degree Leadership Conferences. The conferences were held on November 13 and 14 in Stevens Point. These conferences are an activity of the National FFA and are made possible by company sponsor Syngenta as a special project of the National FFA Foundation.
The 212 Degrees Conference, also the temperature at which water boils, focused on taking students to the boiling point of personal leadership. The conference focused on student development and personal growth. FFA members attended sessions on mental, emotional, physical, and social growth. and were challenged to push the limits in their leadership. Sophomore Marissa Lundquist and freshman Julianna Thompson left this experience with a personal plan for self-improvement.
The 360 Degress Conference took students full circle in terms of chapter leadership. The conference focused on the importance of influence and how to become an influential leader. It focused on chapter and community development. Seniors Nicole Dittbrenner and Derek Rennicke left this conference with the necessary skills to be an agent of change in their chapters and communities.
"We learned how to improve ourselves to be better leaders through understanding the importance of building health relationships, being trustworthy, making critical decisions and collaborating with others while being deliberate with our actions in agriculture and the FFA. During the last session, we learned how we, as leaders, can change and improve our chapter and community," said Dittbrenner. She added, "My team, The 50 Shades of Better FFA Co-op and Copyright, won the first session and the last session, and we all had fun during the dance and games on Friday night when all the kids could interact with each other."