OFI 1364: Replay: OFI 236: Artistic Welding & Business | FFA SAE Edition | Maci Krites | Miami East High School FFA

It’s always fun to showcase FFA students that have done amazing things and have been able to take talents and passions and turn them into viable SAE’s. Today’s guest did just that. This is a replay of an interview I did with a very special welding artist. Learn more about Maci Krites and her “weld art” on this episode.

Original show notes:

IF YOU WANT TO WELD LIKE MACI, YOU WILL NEED A GOOD PAIR OF WELDING GLOVES!

Introducing Maci Krites!

Maci Krites has a great supervised agricultural experience! She is creating artwork with her welding. Maci is a sophomore at Miami East High School, where we have had so many great guests from. She is just getting started in her high school FFA career, and it will be very interesting to see where this takes her. You can check out her “weld art” on her Facebook Page, Maci’s Weldart.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Artistic Welding and Product Sales

HIGH SCHOOL: Miami East High School; Casstown, Ohio

MASCOT: Vikings

FFA ADVISOR: Marie Carity

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR MACI KRITES:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Miami East High School Website:

Maci’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: memcarity@mdeca.org

Miami East High School Telephone Number: (937) 335-7070

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:

“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