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Susan Haag’s elementary students at St. Stanislaus School said hello to new friends recently. Haag attended a ChickQuest workshop last year and received training to do STEM lessons and hatch eggs in the classroom. This program is made possible …

Case manager Bob Hurless recently took his Day Integrated Learning Center students through the hatching process after being trained in a ChickQuest workshop. “The students did a great job checking the incubator daily and we got to watch a few of …

How can we keep harmful diseases and germs away from poultry? The latest Chickenology virtual field trip visited Cooper Farms to learn from an expert! The event was sponsored by Ohio Poultry Association, GrowNextGen, and Cooper Farms. Cooper Farms …

How much will your car insurance cost? Can you afford to buy a house? Will you have any money for dinner out and a movie? Graham Middle School 8th grade students considered these real-world issues recently as part of the Real Money, Real World …

Graham Middle School students explored the use of soybeans in new ways! GrowNextGen ambassadors brought science to them with two great activities: making soy lip balm and soy ink. Students got to choose the flavor of their lip balm made with soy …

Drones are becoming a familiar sight, but do you know how they connect with modern agriculture? Beck’s Hybrids Jim Love, Light Robotics Manager and Herbicide Specialist, visited Graham Middle School in May with a variety of drones. Love shared about …

Did you hear how students in GNG teacher leader Rachel Sanders’ bioresearch class made biodiesel, then tested it in pop-pop boats? Dale Minyo of Ohio Country Journal spoke with Sanders about the lab. “The class is learning about biodiesel as a fuel …

May means it’s planting time for Ohio soybean farmers. Students from across the country visited farms via virtual field trips and learned all about soybean planting. Nathan Eckel welcomed viewers during the elementary trip. Eckel lives in Wood …

Our mighty ambassadors shared with over 1000 people during this terrific day in downtown Columbus. Visitors to our booth were able to make and use soy ink and pick up a soybean seed necklace kit. In addition, they could take a candy challenge to see …

GrowNextGen sponsored the inaugural We Grow Scientists event on May 3. This fun outing was hosted by The Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Science (CFAES) at Waterman Agricultural and Natural Resources …

Plants in agriculture, plants in medicine—on Saturday, April 29, the Ohio Soybean Council-sponsored Ag & Med Biotech Academy showed teachers the connections between biotech in both industries. Twenty teachers gathered at 3Bar Biologic to learn …

Students from around the state gathered with educators and experts recently at the Ohio Youth Institute, held at The Ohio State University. Participants researched critical world issues and ways to end hunger and poverty and improve food security …