Congratulations to 2023 Bowdon High School graduate Adam Stone who won the FFA National Agricultural Proficiency Award in Service Learning - Entrepreneurship at the National FFA Convention November 2 in Indianapolis! Adam's award recognizes his work over the last two plus years to create his nonprofit organization Go Grow Georgia, which is working to create sustainable change to address food insecurity. Adam recognized a food desert in his community and was able to build a community garden on public land and teach clinics on growing food at the garden. Go Grow Georgia fights food insecurity through educational opportunities related to producing food at home and providing agricultural resources to support that effort.
FFA's National Agricultural Proficiency Award in Service Learning recognizes work solving an agriculturally related community need through service learning. The project must benefit a school, public entity or substantial portion of the community and can't benefit the local FFA chapter. Service projects require the member to use agricultural skills and knowledge gained in the agriculture classroom to complete and must be of sufficient scope for the member to apply skills and abilities from the nationally accepted agriculture, food, and natural resource standards. Projects must be member initiated, planned, led and reported.
Adam is part of a vibrant FFA community at Bowdon High School and across Carroll County Schools, including hundreds of middle and high school students. Congratulations to Adam for his individual recognition and to all the students representing Carroll County Schools at the National FFA Convention last week! #FutureFocused