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Home > The Off Farm Income Podcast > OFI 839: Being Female And Working In A Male Dominated Profession | FFA SAE Edition | Makenzie Voss | Harrisburg High School FFA


	Podcast:		The Off Farm Income Podcast
	Episode:		OFI 839: Being Female And Working In A Male Dominated Profession \| FFA SAE Edition \| Makenzie Voss \| Harrisburg High School FFA
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:24:30
	Publish Date:		2020-06-17 01:30:30
	Description:		*Sign Up To Receive Our FFA Stories Newsletter!* Email address: SHOW NOTES *INTRODUCING MAKENZIE VOSS!* Interviewing FFA students gives me the opportunity to speak with female students who are breaking gender norms all the time. Today’s episode has to be #1 on that list. I have interviewed many female students who are diesel mechanics, welders, doing construction, etc. In today’s interview with Makenzie Voss I get to profile another female student who is a welder, and who rose to such heights that she found herself as the only female present in a competition full of males. Makenzie Voss has a passion and significant talent for welding, and she is already working in the industry while she is attending college. She has so much talent that she was encouraged to enter the Skills U.S.A. Competition for the state of South Dakota. Then, she won! Makenzie went on to the national competition to represent her state. When she got there she found out that she was the only female contestant among a field of only males. And, she was the only contestant to show up with no teacher there to support her. Makenzie has never let anything as arbitrary as gender stop her from doing and excelling at what she loves. During high school she combined this passion for welding with working at a farm and ranch store and using that for her SAE. This led her to become a state winner in Agricultural Sales in South Dakota! SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Agricultural Sales *HIGH SCHOOL:* Harrisburg High School; Harrisburg, South Dakota *MASCOT:* Tigers *FFA ADVISOR:* Tara Fastert CONTACT INFORMATION FOR MAKENZIE VOSS: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Harrisburg High School Website: Makenzie’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: tara.fastert@k12.sd.us Harrisburg High School Telephone Number: (605) 743-2567 FFA LINKS: National FFA Organization Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s) Support FFA Donate to FFA – One way that FFA students are able to start small businesses is through an FFA grant of $1,000. In 2014, 141 FFA students received these grants. With your donations, more students can get this head start – *pay it forward.* REASONS TO DONATE TO FFA: Only 2% of Americans grow and raise most of the food and livestock consumed by the other 98% as well as the rest of the world. FFA is providing the needed education, training and resources to Americans that will carry that torch forward and insure that America continues to have inexpensive, quality food. Rural Communities will rely on entrepreneurship in the future for population growth and job creation. The FFA is a major catalyst to that entrepreneurial growth. Farmers, ranchers and those working in agriculture give the rest of America incredible amounts of freedom because the search for food is as simple as going to the grocery store: “The future of American agriculture depends on the involvement and investment in America’s youth, In order to prepare for the population of tomorrow, we need to encourage America’s youth today, and show that careers in agriculture are profitable, rewarding, and vital.”. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue Where Off-Farm Income And Matt Brechwald Can Be Heard: Member Of The National Association Of Farm Broadcasters
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