Welcome back FFA Family!

We are so excited to announce the 2024-2025 Illinois FFA Leadership Conference series. This year, we have 14 amazing past state officers returning to facilitate Middle School, Ground Zero, and BUILD Conferences at 10 different sites with capacity for over 2,500 students. Over the past 10 years, our conference capacity has more than doubled, but most exciting, the experience has become more engaging for every student that attends. Utilizing current and past section presidents to fill over 200 team leader roles, members that attend will engage with other students from across the state in both large and small group curricula designed specifically for their age range. For more information regarding each conference, please see below or visit Event Registration on ilaged.org.

General Conference Registration Information

Middle School Conferences

7th & 8th Grade Students

Fall flyer

Spring flyer

**New this year - We have increased conference capacity and created a new conference curriculum so that 7th graders who attended last year can attend again as 8th graders this year. Please review the general conference registration information for more details.

Date: November 12, 2024

Location: Lincoln Land Community College Trutter Center

Cost: $60/student

Registration Deadline: October 29, 2024

Date: November 15, 2024

Location: Richland Community College Agriculture Building

Cost: $60/student

Registration Deadline: October 29, 2024

Date: March 31, 2025

Location: Sauk Valley Community College Dillon Mall

Cost: $50/student

Registration Deadline: March 17, 2025

Date: April 2, 2025

Location: Rend Lake College Event Center

Cost: $50/student

Registration Deadline: March 17, 2025

Date: April 4, 2025

Location: Lincoln Land Community College Trutter Center

Cost: $60/student

Registration Deadline: March 17, 2025

Ground Zero Conferences

9th and 10th Grade Students

Conference flyers

**New this year - We have increased conference capacity and created a new conference curriculum so that 9th graders who attended last year can attend again as 10th graders this year. Please review the general conference registration information for more details.

**Also new this year - Based upon feedback, the conference schedules have been trimmed to reduce meals during the conference and thus reduce registration fees

Dates: January 22-23, 2025

Location: Northfield Conference Center (Springfield, IL)

Cost: $90/student

Registration Deadline: January 8, 2024

Date: January 29, 2025

Location: Western Illinois University Student Union Grand Ballroom

Cost: $80/student

Registration Deadline: January 15, 2024

Date: January 31 - February 1, 2025

Location: Southern Illinois University Carbondale Student Center Ballrooms

Cost: $80/student

Registration Deadline: January 17, 2025

Date: February 3, 2025

Location: Joliet Junior College U Building Auditorium

Cost: $80/student

Registration Deadline: January 20, 2025

Date: February 4, 2025

Location: Joliet Junior College U Building Auditorium

Cost: $80/student

Registration Deadline: January 21, 2025

Date: February 6, 2025

Location: Thelma Keller Convention Center (Effingham, IL)

Cost: $90/student

Registration Deadline: January 23, 2025

BUILD Conference

11th & 12th Grade Students

Conference flyer

**New this year - Based upon feedback, there will be no breakfast included in the conference, thus reducing registration fees

Dates: November 25-26, 2024

Location: Illinois State University Bone Student Center

Cost: $90/student

Registration Deadline: November 11, 2024