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Complete with a race cars driving around the chili pot the team from Mulberry High's FCCLA club prepared their Old Fashion Speedway Chili. The team had sophomores Bailey Buchanoe, Bristol Wells and junior Makayla Goble.

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Students from Kathleen High School used Hersey's chocolate bars in their chili to give it a bit of a sweeter taste. Bridget Raymond, a junior, mixes the chili as Carity Bowe holds a sample cup for a taster. missy Shipley looks on from the left.

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Bartow High School students, from left, Lisa Rodgers, Clay Frisbie and Tayla Smalls and instructor Gail Adams display the first place trophy they won Wednesday in the Chili Cook Off Contest at the 66th Annual Pollk County Youth Fair.

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These three weren't dancing because they won first place for the best decorated booth, and it probably wasn't because of the Hawaiian Chili they made with pineapples. The girls, members of the Lucky A's 4H include Emily Skipper from Babson Park Elementary (in the back), Rachel Wise, a fourth grader from Ben Hill Griffin Jr. Elementary (center) and Cameron Dicks, a fourth grader from Babson Park.

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Voted the best chili by the judges at the 2013 Chili Cook Off Contest, the members of the Bartow High FCCLA team scoop out a sample of the Easy Southwest Chili. Clay Frisbie, a junior, holds the sample cup, as Lisa Rodgers, a senior prepares to put some in. Tayla Small looks into the bag to see how they were doing in getting votes from the crowd.

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These three students put their hunting skills to work with their entry that included venison they hunted themselves this last weekend. HIllcrest fourth grader Wyatt Draper holds the ladel while Babson Park fourth grader Matthew Fletcher has hold the lid. Second grader Justin Draper watches the pair.

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The Boot Kickin' Swamp Chili from Frostproof High had a water buffalo skull on the table to illustrate what is in the chili. From left, the members fo the team were sophomores Zachary Black, Justine Register and sixth-grader Alia Roberts.

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These three weren't dancing because they won first place for the best decorated booth and it probably wasn't because the Hawaiian Chili they made with pineapples but just because they had to. The girls, members of the Lucky A's 4H include Emily Skipper from Babson Park Elementary (in the back), Rachel Wise, a fourth grader from Ben Hill Griffin Jr. Elementary (center) and Cameron Dicks, a fourth grader from Babson Park.