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Guthrie 2022 GrowNextGen Teacher of the Year

Oct 26, 2022
Shelby Guthrie, a Food Science and Ag Education teacher at Global Impact STEM Academy, has been selected as the GrowNextGen Teacher of the Year. This honor reflects Guthrie’s enthusiastic outreach and involvement with the Ohio Soybean …
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Soybean Halloween

Oct 25, 2022
Trunk or treat!! Global Impact STEM Academy recently hosted a community outreach event for Halloween. Shelby Guthrie, GrowNextGen teacher leader and Global Impact STEM Academy, organized her students to share the soybean seed necklace activity with …
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Acid rain and agriculture

Oct 25, 2022
Students are never too young to do inquiry-based science! How does the pH of water affect seed germination? 4th/5th grade teachers at Wickliffe Progressive Elementary School Sabrina Walters and Shelly Hughes led their students through an experiment …
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Fish and lettuce: interesting partners

Oct 13, 2022
GNG teacher leader Todd Tayloe is working on another aquaponics project this school year! The set-up includes tilapia in a tank that provides water for growing plants. “We started planting seeds on August 17 and also began cycling the tank that …
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Class “trip” expands food science knowledge

Oct 11, 2022
GNG teacher leader Shelby Guthrie’s students participated in the recent virtual field trip to T. Marzetti. The students in her food science class enjoyed the presentation: “It was wonderful to see the applications you learn in class in action.” “I …
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Spotlighting the life sciences industry

Oct 10, 2022
The problem? Finding workers for the many life sciences jobs in Ohio. The solution? Part of it is to reach teachers, who are on the frontline in helping students become aware of these career opportunities. Eddie Pauline, BioOhio President and CEO, …
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Ag and Med Biotech workshop: it’s about the bacteria!

Oct 10, 2022
Biotech for bugs and plants? Most certainly! And the group of teachers at the October Ag and Med Biotech workshop at Otterbein University learned all about it, thanks to the generosity of the Ohio Soybean Council and BioOhio. Dr. Horacio …
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How eggs get to the table!

Oct 6, 2022
A chicken lays an egg. You eat an egg for breakfast. But what happens in between? A virtual field trip to Hertzfeld Poultry Farms showed us how eggs get from the chicken to you! This was the latest Chickenology VFT, sponsored by Ohio Soybean …
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Building on outdoor education knowledge

Oct 5, 2022
by Nicholas Guidera, Graham Middle School principal Thanks to a great partnership, the entire Graham Middle School (GMS) 8th grade class once again received sponsorship from Ohio Soybean Council and GrowNextGen to attend the Farm Science Review …
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A closer look at food science with T. Marzetti

Oct 5, 2022
A recent virtual field trip took us behind the scenes at T. Marzetti, where we learned about the world of dressings, dips, and sauces. Marzetti began years ago as a popular restaurant, but transitioned to making dressings. The Innovation Center in …
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ChickQuest: ready to hatch

Sep 28, 2022
A group gathered at the Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center on the OSU campus for another popular ChickQuest workshop. Sponsored by Ohio Soybean Council with support from Meyer Hatchery, the workshop trained over 50 teachers in the engaging …
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OREP teachers learning together

Sep 27, 2022
Twenty teachers from rural Ohio districts dug deep into agriculture-related learning recently, thanks to support from a grant from USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and support from Educationprojects.org and Battelle. The cohort spent …