Discussion meets

Ott Clark, YF&R Chair, and Riatta Chandler, a former discussion meet participant, explain what a high school discussion meet is and why you should participate. I participated in the high school discussion meet all through high school. It was something that was really cool and really beneficial to me now and looking back, it was one of those experiences that really helped me to build my foundation in talking to people and working with other people and bringing in information and having correct facts while I was there. I think it's. Speaker3: A really fun event for these students. I've seen 14 year old freshmen come in two years ago, and then as they've progressed every year, they get better and better. The high school discussion. Speaker2: Meet is a competition that's meant to simulate a committee meeting. You usually have 4 to 6 kids. They're going to come from all different schools, all different counties, all different districts. When they come together, they need to be talking about what can Farm Bureau do to fix this problem. They can talk about the problem. That's awesome. That's a really good foundation. But how are we doing something to make it better? Speaker3: The structure is we'll have about six students come up, sit at two tables facing each other. Those students will all have a minute to prepare their opening statement. They'll get to know the question. The question may be anything from regulations in agriculture to what's going on in dams in the Pacific Northwest. After everybody's had a chance to open up, they'll all sit down and have a group discussion for 20 minutes and everybody has one minute at the very end to give a closing statement of everything they've learned or what they'd like to take back to their local community. I think every student should take the opportunity. Speaker1: I do, too. And that's why wife and our kids end up being tomorrow's leaders.