27-03-2025
High schoolers compete in 16 contests at Crowder Aggie Day event
NEOSHO, Mo. — It may look like a competition, but it's really about preparing high school students for life after school.
The 54th annual Crowder Aggie Day Contest got underway Thursday morning at Crowder College in Neosho.
The competition brought 1,750 kids from 82 high schools across the Four States to campus, where those students participated in 16 different contests. Those ranged from identifying seeds and plants to grading various cuts of meat.
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And while it is a competition the students have spent months preparing for, it's also about real-world skills they'll need later in life.
'Not that everybody is going to be a plant scientist, or everybody is going to be a meat scientist, but what it does is it helps them decipher and to try to figure out what their opinion is about something, and to be able to communicate that,' said Crowder College Division Chair of Agriculture Jorge Zapata.
An added bonus—a total of $30,000 in scholarships was offered to the top-scoring senior in each of the 16 categories.
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