• Current high school students or recent graduates
• At least 3 years of agricultural education required
• Participation in an SAE program (placement or entrepreneurship type)

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• This program is open to members who either are current high school students or have graduated from high school within the past year.
• High school graduates must have completed at least 3 full years of instruction in agricultural education.
• Applicants must have participated in an SAE program either in a placement type or an entrepreneurship type.
• Placement SAE programs involve work or experience-only (paid or unpaid) activities, including directed laboratory, improvement, and research/experimentation experiences.
• Entrepreneurship SAE programs involve ownership of an agricultural production or agribusiness enterprise.
• Recently, a total of 45 award areas were offered, including agricultural communications, agricultural education, agricultural mechanics design and fabrication, agricultural mechanics repair and maintenance-entrepreneurship, agricultural mechanics repair and maintenance-placeme….
• Students are first judged at their chapter level on their SAE program, with winners advancing to the district level, then to the area level, and finally to the state level.
• Selection is based on 1) skills and competencies learned that relate to an agricultural career field; 2) financial achievements, including growth in scope; 3) personal growth and development through FFA activities;….