As part of National FFA Week, the ISU Collegiate FFA chapter is holding a FFA Enrichment Center Awareness Day Wednesday.”Letters and brochures will be distributed and sent to faculty, staff and students on Wednesday informing them of the plans for the FFA Enrichment Center,” said Lauren Haakinson, Collegiate FFA Reporter. The Iowa FFA Foundation has chosen a 5-acre site along Interstate 80 by Altoona for its central location in the state and is hoping for ground breaking construction soon for the Enrichment Center, said Iowa FFA President Brad Hammes.Official delegates at the Iowa FFA Leadership Conferences have expressed the need for leadership and personal development opportunities which can be made possible through the establishment of a leadership training center, according to the Iowa FFA Foundation Web site, www.ffaiafoundation.org.”The Enrichment Center will be used to host leadership development camps and other FFA activities,” Hammes said. The Center will also be available for industry to use for conferences and meetings when not in use by the FFA Foundation, he said. “The goal that the Foundation has set is a $10 million budget, which would include $9 million for construction and related costs, and a $1 million endowment,” Hammes said. The Iowa FFA Foundation is raising funds through a cumulative effort from the Capital Campaign Committee and Iowa FFA chapters, he said.Through these efforts the Foundation is asking each of the 233 chapters in Iowa to participate in the High Five program, which raises $5,000 in each of their respective communities, and then the money is given to the Foundation. Former Gov. Terry Branstad, Capital Campaign Committee chairman, is also helping to support this effort. “The Capital Campaign Committee has already raised $300,000 in Altoona that will contribute to the funding,” said Wayne Nattress, executive director of the Iowa FFA Foundation. There was also an anonymous pledge of $2 million toward the goal that the Foundation is excited about, Nattress said.The Enrichment Center Awareness Day will be a day of providing knowledge on campus about the Center. The Collegiate FFA club will also be hanging posters explaining the Center and handing out brochures at the cookie day for FFA members and alumni Thursday at the Campanile from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.