Stockbridge FFA and Special Projects Lab

Jason Gruber, a 2024 Stockbridge High School grad and FFA Alum, led an amazing project during the 2024 solar eclipse, launching a cube satellite and high-altitude balloon to study how eclipses affect crops.🚀🌑 Read more below👇 ffa.pub/4c78MEk #FFA #SpaceAgriculture

“If you’re an average player, you want to be left alone because you want to be able to slide by. If you’re a good player, you want to be coached. If you’re a great player, you want the coach to tell you the truth every day." —Nick Saban #TheLeadersMind 🏆 amazon.com/Leaders-Mind-P…

Today our middle school Agriscience and Technology class picked tomatoes and peppers for Stockbridge Community Outreach. They also have another 8 dozen eggs to donate. @5healthytowns

Our FFA Chapter just donated 16-dozen eggs to Stockbridge Community Outreach. @5healthytowns @SJSHSPanthers @StockCommNews

Our middle school agriscience class is getting ready to make apple cider. @SJSHSPanthers

My new favorite education meme! I don’t know whether to laugh or cry 😂😢. (Click on pic to see the whole image) So true! 👇👇👇

@theAgroExpo for the FFA Crop Management Challenge and the State FFA tractor driving contest. @SJSHSPanthers

Our FFA Chapter has a corn and a soybean test plot at AgroExpo as part of the FFA Crop Management Challenge.

I had helpers this morning at the school.

Time for some out of this world salsa. @TheSpaceChileG1 peppers and @Tomatosphere tomatoes from our classroom garden. @SJSHSPanthers @JacobIkaros

Time for a field trip! Michigan State researchers see facilities like this every day, but now Michigan science teachers get direct access through Feeding and Fueling the World, a professional learning event about STEM in agriculture. @MI_corn @Nationalcorn @Unitedsoy @MSU_PSM

Michigan science teachers want to give a big THANK YOU to the generous sponsors supporting Feeding and Fueling the World, the 2-day professional learning event held this week in East Lansing. @MI_corn @Nationalcorn @Unitedsoy @USDA_NIFA

Interviewed a teacher who left the profession last year. Why did you resign? “I have a Master’s degree. I work really hard. I love teaching kids and am great at my job. I do it all for a disgracefully low salary. All of that and I’ve never felt so disrespected by so many.”

The bees are working hard this morning outside my classroom. @ROVpalau @SJSHSPanthers @StockCommNews @MichiganFFA

Ornamental peppers look good growing in our @farmbotio outside our classroom this summer. @SJSHSPanthers

We picked our first tomatoes of the season this morning. @SJSHSPanthers

We learned a lot and had a great time.

Our FFA Crop Management Teams attended the FFA CMC Field Day @theAgroExpo @agroliquid @MichiganFFA This year we have a corn and a soybean team. @SJSHSPanthers @StockCommNews

The #FFA Crop Management Challenge is a competition for Michigan FFA chapters to enter and expand their agronomy and marketing skills. See the results at #AgroExpo August 15 & 16! theagroexpo.com/ffa