Youth Middle School students return from Macon big winners in state FFA competition

Youth Middle School FFA members clean up at 2025 state championships. Contributed photo

Youth Middle School is taking a victory lap after students return from the FFA state championships after students had an incredible week in Macon with four Area Record Book winners — and Nathan Camp bringing home the State Championship in Ag Sales!

Area Record Book Winners (Middle School SAE)

• Nathan Camp – Ag Sales (State Winner)
• Ashlyn Wood – Home and Community Development
• Drake Sheffield – Power, Structural, and Technical Systems
• Ella Gran – Specialty and Small Animal

State Agriscience Fair

YMS had 18 students compete with 12 projects, and 10 of Georgia’s 12 National Qualifiers came from YMS!

1st Place Projects – National Qualifiers:

• Nathan Camp – Animal Systems 1
• Ashlyn Wood – Social Science 1
• Zoe McCornell – Plant Systems 1
• Melanie Carter – Environmental Systems 1
• Macie Davis – Food Systems 1
• Skyler Cabrera & Livi Witherspoon – Social Science 2
• Anna Barker & Katie Brown – Plant Systems 2
• Cole Lance & Cohen Roberts – Power & Technical Systems 2
• Ella Gran & Avery Adams – Food Systems 2

3rd Place Projects

• Nellie Taylor & Kenzie Bolt – Animal Systems 2
• Drake Sheffield – Power & Technical Systems 1

Special Recognitions:

• Ashlyn Wood – 1st place three years in a row!
• Macie Davis – 2nd highest scoring project out of 189 middle & high school entries!

Thee will be a Farm to Table FFA Kids Camp this summer for rising 2 – 5th graders for the 2025-2026 Youth Middle and Walnut Grove FFA. The cost is $100 per camper from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. These young FFA members will get the opportunity to learn what it was that made the YMS FFA members so successful.