Marysville FFA officers updated the Marysville Board of Education on chapter activities, recent awards and upcoming events during the board’s August meeting.

Why it matters: The chapter’s national recognition highlights local agricultural education programming and student leadership development in the district.

Natalie Williams, chapter vice president, and Madison Wirks, chapter reporter, described year-round student activities including shop classes that create floral arrangements, dissections, field trips and youth livestock judging events. Williams said the chapter set a goal to finish in the top 10 in the national ‘‘strengthening agriculture’’ category and that the chapter has achieved a top-10 national ranking; the exact place within the top 10 will be announced in October.

Wirks and Williams listed summer leadership and service activities, including the Washington Leadership Conference and Food for America outreach to fifth-graders at Creekview. The chapter also described local service plans: they hope to expand fundraising for Wreaths Across America to place wreaths on veterans’ graves at the local cemetery; the chapter said there were not enough wreaths during its first year of participation.

At state convention the chapter earned a gold rating, five members received their state FFA degree, three officers were gold-rated, and the chapter earned a charitable giving award. The students thanked Mr. Chaffin and the chapter’s teachers; the board congratulated the students and their advisors.

Ending: Officers said the chapter will travel to the national FFA convention in Indianapolis in October and look forward to learning their final national ranking then.