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Ambassadors sharing summer learning
GrowNextGen ambassadors facilitated nine days of activities at three places in July! Their outreach activities included hosting a table for multiple days at the North Market, where the public was invited to make soybean seed necklaces. They also …
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Workshop field trip to Waterman Farm
Ag Biotech Graduate Academy workshop participants recently toured Waterman Farm at The Ohio State University. The Waterman Agricultural and Natural Resources Laboratory, commonly referred to as Waterman, is home to a variety of agricultural research …
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Hybrid workshop provides cross-country learning and labs
GrowNextGen was part of the national level, regional-based Science of Food and Fuel: a Nourish the Future Ag Biotech workshop held in June. A group of 28 teachers gathered in-person at Global Impact STEM Academy, while another 28 joined in via Zoom …
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CRISPR connections
Jerron Schmoll, Product Lifecycle Manager at Corteva Agriscience, spoke to participants of the Ag Biotech Graduate Academy workshop at a recent industry dinner. This dinner provided teachers in the workshop an opportunity to hear about current …
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Annual favorite offers “graduate” option
Ag Biotech Academy, sponsored by the Ohio Soybean Council with support from Pioneer, has been a popular summer workshop since it began in 2013. This year the level was ‘stepped up’ to provide more in-depth training for teachers—hence the addition of …
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Summer externship at Sunrise
Trisha Seckel teaches ag business at Global Impact STEM Academy. She’s participating in a summer externship program, working with Jeff Goodbar at Sunrise Cooperative. Seckel is updating the company’s template production plan that customers use in …
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Food science fun with Field to Package
Food science-related careers are hot in Ohio, and students need to know about these opportunities! In order to reach them, the Ohio Soybean Council and educationprojects.org presented the Experience Food Science: Field to Package workshop, with …
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Sharing resources at OAAE!
GrowNextGen teacher leaders Pam Snyder and Shelby Dodds shared about lessons and resources at the summer Ohio Association of Agriculture Educator’s conference in Wooster. Snyder presented Moving Genes, an introduction to genetic engineering. This …
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Science winners 2021!
Congratulations to these winners in the 2021 virtual Ohio State Science Day! We’ll be featuring their research projects and findings on our website in the student research section. The Ohio Soybean Council Foundation (OSCF) sponsors awards for the …
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Visiting a turkey barn
We were talking turkeys with this week’s virtual field trip to Cooper Farms, a farm and food company in northwest and west Central Ohio! Ohio Soybean Council presented a visit for teachers and students all over Ohio and in other states, giving them …
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Spring virtual field trip presents planting to all audiences
Wood County farmer and Ohio Soybean Council board member Andy Stickel invited students from all over Ohio and beyond to visit his farm this week—virtually, that is! Stickel led an elementary field trip one day and another for middle and high school …
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Real Money. Real World. Ag Version!
Can you manage your salary well? Students at Global Impact STEM Academy had the opportunity to consider living on a budget and managing expenses as they walked through the Real Money. Real World. (RMRW) program. RMRW was developed by Ohio State …