Ag Department at Yosemite

gets regional award

 

Yosemite High School agriculture instructor and Future Farmers of America advisor Steve Ecklund helps student Kyle Robinson with some basic wiring techniques in an ag mechanics class.  Mr. Ecklund was recently given the best “single person”- department award.

— Sierra Star/Lacey Rees

 

The Yosemite High School Agriculture Department has been selected as the “Outstand­ing Department” in the East Fresno-Madera section.

Yosemite was also chosen as the best “single person” department, with Steve Ecklund serving as its sole instructor and Future Farmers of America advisor.

To earn this award, the department had to be nominated and then voted for by the teachers and advisors from other schools in the region.

Mr. Ecklund received the award at a recent meeting of the California Agriculture Teachers Association.

“We’ve been working really hard to build this program,” says Mr. Ecklund, “and realize that despite our many successes over the past three years, that we haven’t even started to reach our full potential.

“Nonetheless,” he adds, some­times change and expectations can seem slow and at times frustrating; thus it feels good to have our efforts acknowledged by your peers.”