Country Chicks Podcast: Talking Agriculture with Lexi and Zosia

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WOODBURY — National FFA Week is a dedicated period for FFA members to embrace their pride for the FFA organization. FFA Week also can fuel contributions across the program on all levels, which can foster grants, scholarships, among other things.

Here at Nonnewaug, the officer team strives to bring awareness by creating Woodbury FFA Week, which took place this year from Feb. 26-March 1. The officers create and host events during and after school, along with creating a spirit week that allows all members of the school whether they are in the program or not to participate, allowing students to come together as one.

“FFA Week is not just for kids within the ag program,” said Samantha Kostka, Woodbury FFA Chapter president. “It allows any student to participate and be a part of the FFA.”

The FFA is a life-changing program that allows students to focus on their career at a young age, preparing them for life experiences while having a unique agricultural experience. FFA Week strives to touch the lives of possible incoming students.

“It’s a great way for incoming students to connect and really feel what it’s like to be a FFA member,” said Kyleigh Paige, Woodbury FFA Chapter vice president. “It gets kids involved with the community and branch out.”

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About the Contributors

Zosia Olejniczak '24, Reporter

Zosia Olejniczak is a senior at Nonnewaug and a first-year journalist for NHS Chief Advocate. With her passion being animals, she is in the veterinary program and on the vet CDE. Her dream is to become an orthopedic veterinarian and to major in pre-vet when she goes off to college. Zosia is very involved with the FFA and became a Woodbury FFA chapter sentinel in hopes to grow her social skills. She loves her newest member of the family, Daisy the goldendoodle, more than anything and hopes to take her with her to college. Zosia plans on writing about the voices that feel that they may have been silenced and bring awareness to unique situations.

Alexa Sweeney '25, Reporter

Alexa Sweeney is a first-year reporter for the Nonnewaug Chief Advocate. She is from Prospect and is the 2023-24 historian for the agriscience program. She shows rabbits and sheep at fairs around Connecticut through 4H. She was also a part of the Dairy CDE last spring and would like to try out a different one this coming year. She is currently enrolled in the natural resources and floriculture classes in the agriscience program and is highly involved within the FFA. Sweeney would like to become a nurse one day and is excited to report on all of the news around Nonnewaug and the agriscience program.