Area FFA students win awards

A Hillsboro student received a $1,000 scholarship and four Centre and three Marion students received state degrees at last week’s Kansas FFA Convention in Manhattan.

Colby Suderman, Hillsboro, received one of 31 Built Ford Tough scholarships based on agricultural and leadership experience.

Receiving state degrees, the highest honor Kansas FFA bestows on its members, were Addison Bina, Lillian Hauck, Kaden Hutchinson, and Blaise Kitzmiller of Centre and Auryona Countryman, Silas Nickel, and Noah Schmidt of Marion.

Among other things winners must have earned at least $2,000 or worked 600 hours in a supervised agricultural experience, given a six-minute speech about agriculture or FFA, participated in eight different leadership activities, and shown a record of outstanding leadership and community involvement.