Animal Science Class Hosts First Sale Auction
December 11, 2018
Agriculture teacher, Karen Roudabush, taught her animal science class about how a livestock auction worked by assigning jobs to each student for them to prepare for a mock auction. This mock auction took place Dec. 14 at 12:45 p.m. in the agriculture room, and it was open to the animal science students and any other student or staff member in the high school that had a study hall or free time during that sixth-period class.
“It was a fun-filled, good learning opportunity that allowed us to learn how auction sales are executed from each perspective,” sophomore Morgan Terveen said.
Jobs were assigned to students in the class so that preparation for the auction went more smoothly. The catalog director was senior Katelyn Kotas with helpers junior Cassidy Stacken and sophomore Brooks Jansen. Senior Joslyn Schrank and sophomore Brandon Jansen were producers. The promotion crew was made up by senior Sydney Hoffman and junior Jonah Hofer. Other students were given jobs at the auction. Sophomore Jayke Glanzer was the auctioneer, and sophomore Shaylee Longe was the clerk. The sales’ manager was senior Kristin Kotas, and her assistant was sophomore Johanna Tusha. Finally, the ring men were senior Sierra Wollmann and sophomore Morgan Terveen.
Each student not only had a job to do for the auction but they also each had to sell an animal at the event. The students picked between a cow, pig, sheep and goat to create, and they used cardboard and plastic materials to create a model of the animal they wished to represent and sell at the auction.
When the day of the sale finally came, the room was set up and study halls students and staff flooded the room. Mrs. Roudabush gave students a set amount of “FFA Bucks” to purchase the animals of their choice. She also gave the option for students to team up with others when buying an animal.
The results and sale information from the auction is listed below.
The top selling lot at the sale was the final lot #13, a Nigerian Dwarf dairy goat doe owned by Sydney Hoffman that sold for $9,000.
“I teamed up with five other people, and we all put our money together,” senior Kinzer Glanzer said. “We had a lot of money altogether, and we didn’t know what to do with it, so we put our bid in for every good-looking animal that we wanted.”
After the sale came to an end, all the buyers had to pay the amount that they owed to the clerk Shaylee Longe.
“It was a fun-filled, good learning opportunity that allowed us to learn how auction sales are executed from each perspective,” sophomore Morgan Terveen said.
Jobs were assigned to students in the class so that preparation for the auction went more smoothly. The catalog director was senior Katelyn Kotas with helpers junior Cassidy Stacken and sophomore Brooks Jansen. Senior Joslyn Schrank and sophomore Brandon Jansen were producers. The promotion crew was made up by senior Sydney Hoffman and junior Jonah Hofer. Other students were given jobs at the auction. Sophomore Jayke Glanzer was the auctioneer, and sophomore Shaylee Longe was the clerk. The sales’ manager was senior Kristin Kotas, and her assistant was sophomore Johanna Tusha. Finally, the ring men were senior Sierra Wollmann and sophomore Morgan Terveen.
Each student not only had a job to do for the auction but they also each had to sell an animal at the event. The students picked between a cow, pig, sheep and goat to create, and they used cardboard and plastic materials to create a model of the animal they wished to represent and sell at the auction.
When the day of the sale finally came, the room was set up and study halls students and staff flooded the room. Mrs. Roudabush gave students a set amount of “FFA Bucks” to purchase the animals of their choice. She also gave the option for students to team up with others when buying an animal.
The results and sale information from the auction is listed below.
The top selling lot at the sale was the final lot #13, a Nigerian Dwarf dairy goat doe owned by Sydney Hoffman that sold for $9,000.
“I teamed up with five other people, and we all put our money together,” senior Kinzer Glanzer said. “We had a lot of money altogether, and we didn’t know what to do with it, so we put our bid in for every good-looking animal that we wanted.”
After the sale came to an end, all the buyers had to pay the amount that they owed to the clerk Shaylee Longe.
