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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 …

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 …

Jamie Brown teaches science and math at Miami East Junior High. She is part of OREP, a special program for Ohio rural educators to experience problem-based learning while gaining agriculture-specific content knowledge and tools for their classroom. …

Graham Middle School teacher Beth Obaugh shares this report: We had a great day at the Farm Science Review this year. We always start our day at the Ohio Soybean Council booth. We are so thankful for the Ohio Soybean Council and GrowNextGen’s …

Graham Middle Schools’ 8th graders participated in a scavenger hunt that took them through Farm Science Review on a mission! They were tasked with finding out about careers related to agriculture, so they visited an equipment dealer to see the …

Get your students involved in this great PBL opportunity! All students in Ohio are invited! Work as a team to imagine, design and prototype a solution to increase food security in your life, community, or world—feed 9B people by 2050. Agriculture is …

Dr. Diane Kahle, a math and computer science teacher from Upper Arlington, wrote this article for GrowNextGen: On a hot, sunny September day, forty suburban high school students hopped on a school bus headed for an unlikely destination: the Ohio …

Farm Science Review is an annual Ohio event that attracts more than 140,000 visitors from all over the United States and Canada. The latest agricultural equipment, technology and production developments are on display, along with educational …

Pam Snyder, a BioScience Technology Teacher at the Ft. Hayes Career Center and Columbus City Schools, came to Farm Science Review with her class and students from a horticulture program at Ft. Hayes. The career center, located in downtown Columbus, …

It was a four-hour trip, but Donna Meller’s students from Pettisville in Fulton County were still going strong in the afternoon at Farm Science Review (FSR). Miller won one of the 8 grants provided by the Ohio Soybean Council and GrowNextGen for a …

There’s so much to see and do at the Farm Science Review (FSR)! Thanks to GrowNextGen, seven area teachers brought 158 students to this year’s event. This opportunity included admission tickets, bus transportation, reimbursement for a substitute …