(bright music) - Westlake High School's Future Farmers of America or FFA provides agricultural education and empowers students through hands-on learning, leadership training, and career exploration.

Delilah Snell and Brody Frost are here joined by a few special guests, you may have heard them to discuss the organization's impact in Utah and beyond.

Welcome.

- Yes.

Thanks for having us.

- Thanks for being here.

So tell me how the FFA has changed your life and transformed you.

- Yeah, so when I started high school, I did not think I was gonna be in FFA at all.

I was not into agriculture at all, and it's given me, like, helped me decide what I want to do in life and how I wanna pursue my career.

And I've met amazing people through it and had opportunities to go to Indiana, and it has just taught me so much about myself and about agriculture.

- [Liz] And Brody, what has it taught you?

- FFA has taught me how to have a excellent work ethic and how to bring the agriculture into just an aspect of life where I can look at it and go, "Oh, like that's a part of agriculture where I know I'm part of."

- [Liz] And at your school, you guys have a unique program.

You brought some of the animals from it.

What's it like being able to do hands-on things right there at your high school?

- Yeah, it's really amazing since most high schools don't have the opportunity to work hands-on with animals or floraculture or even in our mechanic shop.

So it's so awesome to be able to understand those careers and get like hands-on action with it and understand before we might want to pursue it.

- Yeah.

Brody, what excites you about the hands-on learning and experiences you get?

- It excites me just for like the opportunity to be able to experience these, like Delilah said, beforehand, so I can learn what I want to do in the future for myself.

- [Liz] How can other students who may not have an FFA at their school, how can they get involved?

- Yeah, you can get involved since agriculture impacts every part of your life every day, even if it's just going to the store.

So making sure that you can get involved by like animal raising, it's awesome.

- Well, thank you so much.

If you would like to get involved or even just to learn more about the FFA, the information is on your screen, just head to westlakeffa.com for more information.

I'm Liz Adeola and thank you for watching "Contact."

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