East Knox FFA sixth in district Ag Mechanical Skills

Top two teams advance to state

Four students smiling outside a vocational center.

East Knox FFA members McKenzie Schwartz, left, Madison Negron, John Chadwick, and Noah Beckley competed in the District 7 FFA Ag Mechanical Skills Career Development Event at Licking Valley High School.

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Published April 21, 2026 - 8:05 p.m.

Four members of the East Knox FFA recently competed in the District 7 FFA Ag Mechanical Skills Career Development Event held at Licking Valley High School. The team took sixth place overall in the six-county District 7 event which consists of 31 schools that have FFAs. The district is composed of Knox, Licking, Fairfield, Franklin, Pickaway, and Ross counties and Clear Fork Schools out of Richland County. The top two teams from each of Ohio’s 10 FFA districts advances to the state competition.

The Ag Mechanical Skills competition is a hands-on event where students perform various agricultural mechanics skills which occur in maintenance and repair. Students will demonstrate the proper use of tools and apply their knowledge of tool use to daily situations in agricultural mechanical environments.