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FBLA & FFA Award Displays: 2025 Benchmark Report on Recognition Systems, Trophy Cases, Plaques & Digital Display Adoption Data

Intent: research FBLA and FFA award displays, trophies, and plaques represent essential infrastructure for career and technical education (CTE) organizations celebrating competitive achievement, leadership development, and agricultural excellence. Yet as chapter membership expands and competitive success accumulates, traditional recognition approaches face mounting challenges—trophy cases overflow after 5-10 years, wall-mounted plaque space exhausts, and maintaining current displays consumes increasing adviser time. This benchmark report analyzes recognition system usage patterns, space constraint timelines, maintenance burden metrics, and emerging digital display adoption trends across 280+ FBLA and FFA chapters nationwide, providing quantitative evidence for recognition modernization decisions. This analysis presents original data from Rocket internal deployment sample (N=283 CTE organization installations, 2020-2025), supplemented by published research on student recognition effectiveness and space utilization patterns in educational facilities. Our methodology section details sample composition, data collection procedures, and analytical approaches used throughout this report.