IT may be hard to believe but Vincentia High School's agricultural show alpaca team has had more success in 2019 than previous years.
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The team of students, be it the Canberra or Camden shows and then finishing with the Sydney Royal Easter, dominated wherever they went.
The school has a mountain of ribbons to show for its efforts where various students, alpacas and chickens starred.
Eden Roszkiewicz was one of the leading students.
She competed in the youth paraders at the Royal Easter Show and for the second year, became the supreme champion.
"This means she [Eden] is the best of the best at the show," team coordinator Marion Worthy said.
Eden was competing against a quality field and was against 60 other competitors.
She was quick to give some of the credit for her success to others.
"I was not confident but we all worked hard and tried our best," Eden said.
Eden said the show program was a great learning experience.
"It [going to shows] is just a really good experience - you get out in the world and is a good way to get references for the future," she said.
"We all have now got a lot of teamwork skills and learnt a lot about the animals and the industries out there."
Students Isabell Filtness, Jacqueline Reminis, Bianca Coleman, BJ Hawkins, Eden Roszkiewicz, Georgina Jones, Chloe Lattanzio, Olivia Collett, Maddie Hall and three young students from Tomerong Public School Hayden Glanville, Kali Glanville and Jordan Glanville were all part of the team.
Eden said the show program has helped with her self confidence.
She is a 15-year-old year 11 and would love to have a career in agriculture.
Marion was pleased with the efforts the team achieved.
"The kids are getting better with their show knowledge and we are having more students coming up to us wanting to learn and take part in the show program," she said.
"More year seven students are coming up and wanting to start competing."
Not only do Vincentia High students get the chance to take part but students from Tomerong Public are now also involved.
Vincentia High was known around the area for being a triathlon school and before that a football school.
Marion now hopes the Vincentia High will become known as an alpaca school.
"Alpacas are a new industry and there is a lot we can learn," she said.
The Vincentia High students were asked by the Royal Agricultural Society (RAS) committee to run the "Walk an Alpaca" program.
Walk an Alpaca program is where show patrons could walk an alpaca and have their photos taken.
The program was a chance for the Vincentia students to meet other people and pass on their knowledge of alpacas.
All the Vincentia students got to walk in the grand parade on three separate occasions, which was a wonderful experience.
Jacqueline Cooper from Vincentia High's Support Unit also walked in the grand parade with the Vincentia team.
In the grand parade, junior judging BJ Hawkins won reserve champion and Georgina Jones came fifth and Eden Roszkiewicz placed eighth in the junior judging
Georgina Jones placed second in the horticulture judging also receiving a reserve champion award.
Many students will now be heading off the national titles this August in Canberra.