OFI 1964: Mechanical Aptitude & Business Acumen As A Sophomore | FFA SAE Edition | Maverick Scheckel | Bellevue Community High School FFA

Maverick Scheckel is just a sophomore in high school, but he is already the proprietor of two businesses and has developed a skill set that is going to serve him well for the rest of his life. Mentored by his father and working his father’s large equipment “buy/sell” business, Maverick learned a lot about repairing equipment. This includes both working on engines and welding.

Maverick has taken what he has learned both from the business side and the skill sets to form two impressive businesses. First is “Scheckel Buy/Sell” which is similar to his father’s buy/sell business. Rather than focusing on large equipment, Maverick focuses on small equipment like pickups, atv’s and motorcycles. He purchases them in poor condition at bargain prices, fixes them up and then flips them.

Maverick has been welding since he was in the 6th grade, and he now can use all methods. This has led him to start “Scheckel Welding”. He does repairs for his father’s business, friends and farmers in his area. And, he is just launching a project to start fabricating gates and selling them around Bellevue as there are none available anywhere close.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Multiple Equipment Repair And Sale Businesses

HIGH SCHOOL: Bellevue Community High School; Bellevue, Iowa

MASCOT: Comets

FFA ADVISOR: Blair Gerlach

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR MAVERICK SCHECKEL:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Bellevue Community High School Ag. Department’s website:

Maverick’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: blairgerlach@bellevue.k12.ia.us

Bellevue Community High School’s Telephone Number: 563.872.4001

FFA LINKS:

National FFA Organization

Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)

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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:

“Because American farmers are able to provide for so many of us, they give more and more of us the freedom to pursue goals and livelihoods beyond growing the food we need to survive.”

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack