10/24/2026
💜💛 NATIONAL FFA CONVENTION MATH: ALL THIS + ALL THAT = PRICELESS. 💛💜
Ever wonder what it takes to get Brooksville Sr. FFA to the National FFA Convention? Well, let’s look at the receipt. 🧾🤠
🎓 3 American FFA Degree recipients
🎤 1 National FFA Choir finalist
🙌 2 convention sessions
📚 2 workshops
🐄 1 industry tour + 40 dairy cows
🚌 2 charter bus rides
🚐 3 rental vans
✈️ 11 flights to coordinate (arrivals AND departures!)
🏨 4 hotels + 9 hotel rooms coordinated
👨👩👧👦 9 family members
💜 3 FFA officers: President, Vice President & Secretary
📆 5-ish days of convention
🎤 8 total days for our vocalist, who flew in early and leaves late
👟 65,636 steps
🛣️ Approximately 2,000 miles traveled
⏰ 3:30 AM wake-ups + 1:30 AM bedtimes
📋 200+ hours of planning, coordinating, scheduling, organizing, troubleshooting, and making approximately a million moving pieces fit together
📑 A STACK of spreadsheets, itineraries, packing lists, and paperwork
🍿 All. The. Snacks.
🌎 Thousands of FFA members and guests from across the country (official attendance numbers still to come!)
💜💛 Countless memories, new experiences, proud moments, and opportunities our members will carry with them long after the convention is over.
Add all of that together, and what do you get?
PRICELESS MEMORIES. ✨
Three American FFA Degree recipients. A national choir finalist. Students representing our chapter on a national stage. Opportunities to learn, grow, connect, and experience something bigger than ourselves.
THAT is what FFA is all about. 💜💛
But let’s not forget the behind-the-scenes math…
11 flights. 4 hotels. 9 rooms. 3 rental vans. 2 charter bus rides. Approximately 2,000 miles. 200+ hours of planning. And enough spreadsheets to qualify as their own college course. 😂
All coordinated, scheduled, organized, and somehow held together with a whole lot of determination, caffeine, and FFA pride.
AND THE FINAL NUMBER?
1 ADVISOR.
One advisor coordinating all these moving pieces to help make these opportunities possible. One advisor answering the questions, checking the schedules, counting the people, tracking the details, and figuring out what to do when Plan A inevitably becomes Plan B, C, or D.
Because the memories may be priceless, but the planning? The planning is a full-time job all by itself. 🤠😂
We are SO proud of our members, our officers, our American FFA Degree recipients, and our National FFA Choir finalist for representing Brooksville Sr. FFA!
The steps will eventually be forgotten. The spreadsheets will be deleted. The sleep schedule will hopefully recover.
But the memories? Absolutely priceless. 💜💛
