By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
Glasgow High School students are no strangers to wearing blue, but this school year may see some of them donning a different shade as the school’s FFA chapter received national approval.
The school announced on Aug. 13 that the Glasgow FFA chapter was officially chartered with the national organization, opening the way for Glasgow High School students to compete in FFA competitions and have Supervised Agricultural Experiences, which is an agricultural themed project the students can work on both at home and at school.
The Glasgow FFA chapter was made possible by the district board of education’s approval of an Agribusiness pathway on March 10, according to Mattea Wyatt, the newly hired Agribusiness teacher and FFA advisor, who added that she is excited to begin her classes when the school year starts on Aug. 26.
Her first class is principles of agriculture, which is the first class in the pathway, and currently she has 74 students in the class this semester and 71 in the spring. Much like Barren County’s FFA chapter, Wyatt said everyone in the pathway will be an FFA member regardless of their participation in the extracurriculars.
Wyatt said the chapter plans to enter competitions after the state fair and will conduct some fundraising events in the community in the coming months.
Wyatt said she is originally from Barren County — graduating from Barren County High School in 2018 — and went to Murray State University. After graduating in the spring of 2021 with a degree in Agriculture Education, she moved to Tennessee and taught middle school classes there for a year before moving to Christian County where she mainly taught classes concerning Agribusiness and plant sciences. While in Christian County she earned her Master’s in Agriculture Education in December 2024.
She said she is excited to return to the community she spent so much time in.
