CDEs stand for Career Devlopment Events. These are a major part of the FFA. They help to train students for skills they may need when they join the work force. Students prepare for many weeks for these events. Most contests are an identification type that include some kind of a written exam as well. For example: One of my favorite contests is the nursery and landscape. This contest includes around seventy plants to identify, a written test, and a landscape drawing interpretation.
A list of Career Development Events offered in the Northeast District are:
-Ag Communications
-Ag Issues
-Ag Mechanics
-Ag Sales
-Creed Speaking
-Dairy Cattle Evaluation
-Dairy Foods
-Extemporaneous Public Speaking
-Floriculture
-Food Science
-Horse Evaluation
-Job Interview
-Livestock Evaluation
-Meats
-Nursery/Landscape
-Parliamentary Procedure
-Poultry Evaluation
-Public Speaking
