Congratulations to all teams competing in today's Forestry Career Development Event held at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale! Thanks go out to Dr. Eric Holzmueller, SIU Forestry Department, Ag Ed Club, and Collegiate FFA, and Susan Graham for hosting an excellent event!

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Scoring Changes

While reviewing the scoring key, the IAVAT Representative and CDE Committee Representative made the decision to include all 23 questions given by the contest host in the Chainsaw ID/Troubleshooting Practicum. The 23 questions would have increased the points for the practicum to 115 points, not 100 points as stated in the rules. The decision was made to use a multiplier to make the Chainsaw Practicum worth 100 points as stated in the rules. With the multiplier, each question in the Chainsaw Practicum is worth 4.347 points. If you see long decimal points, this is why. This should clear up any confusion in the scoring of the practicum. 

Question 15 on the Chainsaw Practicum was also thrown out. The part in question was a scrench, an item not listed in the Chainsaw ID bank in the Illinois Forestry CDE list. It was decided by the IAVAT Board Representative and CDE Committee Representative to remove the question. No points will be awarded for the question. 

Question 19 on the Chainsaw Practicum was thrown out for tampering during troubleshooting. No points will be awarded. 

Question 7 was thrown out on the General Knowledge Exam. The question dealt with board foot size. The foot and inch indicators (‘,”) were incorrect, including both on multiple optional answers. No points will be awarded for the question. 

Varsity Division

In the Varsity Division,  15 Schools, 14 Teams, and 64 Individuals competed.

Congratulations to the Superior Teams and Individuals competing in this year's contest!

Middle School Division

In the Middle School Division,  1 School and 1 Individual competed.

Congratulations to the Individual competing in this year's contest!

Alternate Division

In the Alternate Division,  2 Schools and 10 Individuals competed.

Congratulations to the Superior Individual competing in this year's contest!

judgingcard.com results - Reminder

Full results may be accessed by logging in to judgingcard.com. Your initial username should be your chapter ID (ex: IL0001) and password should be the zipcode of your school. Upon initial login, you may change your password and personal information on the home screen menu. For questions or issues logging in to your account, email info@judgingcard.com.

To view results, click the "online results" ribbon on the bottom left side of the screen and select Illinois Forestry CDE. From here, you may view results by team, individual, or class statistics in either division. Your student names should be listed in full with students from other schools being reduced to initials. Detailed results can be viewed by clicking on student names or your school name.

Results posted in this email and on judgingcard.com are to be considered tentative at this time. Any discrepancies found in the results must be submitted in writing to the Illinois FFA Center within 3 days from electronic notification of results. Results will become official with the mailing of ribbons in the coming weeks.

Thanks again to everyone who helped to make this event a success!

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