Anthony Brooks, Clarke Central High School Career, Technical and Agricultural Education department teacher and CCHS National FFA Organization co-adviser holds a floral bouquet in Room 109 on Sept. 24. The CCHS National FFA Organization prepared materials and tickets in advance of its annual Fall Floral Workshop, which will be held on Oct. 1 in the Miller W. Jordan Memorial Food Court. “We are doing a water-based vase arrangement, so (the flowers) will be (in) a clear glass vase,” Brooks said. “With it being October, we’re gonna do something kind of fall-themed, so (with) oranges, yellows, browns and fall tones.” Photo by Izzy Hammock
CCHS’ National FFA Organization will host its Fall Floral Workshop at 6 p.m. on Oct. 1 as a way to connect with the CCHS and Athens communities.
The Clarke Central High School National FFA Organization will hold its annual Fall Floral Workshop on Oct. 1 at 6 p.m. in the Miller W. Jordan Memorial Food Court. The event will be open to all CCHS and Athens community members who purchased a $40 ticket via GoFan by Sept. 20.
The workshop will engage attendees with CCHS’ agriculture and FFA programs by providing an opportunity to create and take home a water-based floral bouquet, an activity that will be led by CCHS Career, Technical and Agricultural Education department teachers Anthony Brooks and Levi Carr Brooks, co-FFA advisers.
“(The workshop is about) getting the community more involved,” Brooks said. “Our (FFA) program may look different than places that are more rural, (but) we are still a very prominent program and have a lot to offer within Athens. We do (floral workshops) to get our name out there, (and it) pays off with community support in the long run.”
Along with Brooks and Carr Brooks, students in CCHS’ Floral Design and Management class were invited to help guide community members in attendance.
“(Volunteering at the workshop) helps (students) get more comfortable interacting with adults in a safe space,” FFA North Region Vice President and CCHS Floral Design and Management student Quinn Pendley, a senior, said. “It also just gives us experience trying to figure out how we can be helpful, whether it be problem-solving if we run out of a material or answering questions.”
“We do (floral workshops) to get our name out there, (and it) pays off with community support in the long run.”
— Anthony Brooks,
CCHS CTAE department teacher and FFA co-adviser
The Fall Floral Workshop is one of multiple floral workshops the FFA hosts every year. Two more are planned for the winter and spring, and more information about the events will be announced as they draw closer.
“I enjoy getting to work with community members and seeing our community members and students work together,” Brooks said. “That’s really what I hope to get out of (conducting these workshops), is just more opportunities to be involved with each party.”
