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Please join me in congratulating Neela Hammerstein,
who was recognized as the 2025 Outstanding Early Career Teacher by
the Montana Association of Agricultural Educators.
If you’ve had the privilege of knowing Neela—or if you were fortunate enough to be one of her students—you already know she shines. One of her greatest
strengths is her ability to bring out the best in others, and she pours her whole heart into the students she serves.
Now in her eighth year as Corvallis’s FFA advisor and agricultural educator, Neela continues to help students set big goals—and reach them. This past fall,
her Marketing Plan team earned a fourth-place finish in the nation at
the National FFA Convention.
Neela’s own FFA journey runs deep as well. As Neela
Andres, she served as the 2014–2015 Montana FFA State
Secretary, and her continued dedication reflects the very best of what FFA stands for.
Neela is a powerful example of the FFA motto: Learning
to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve.
FFA has touched each of our lives in one way or another. On Give FFA Day, I challenge you to think of your own “Neela”—the advisor, teacher, or mentor who
helped shape who you are—and to feel grateful for the ways FFA has changed your life.
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