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A Different Kind of Farming
Teachers attending the 2015 Ag Biotech Academy took a field trip to Freshwater Farms in Urbana, Ohio. This facility has been in operation for over 30 years, raising rainbow trout, yellow perch, and freshwater shrimp. Ohio has over 300 fish farms,…
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Ag teachers learn lab skills
Whitney Short and Courtney Bockbrader, both agriculture education teachers at Anthony Wayne Schools, recently conducted two biotechnology workshops for other agriculture education teachers at the Ohio Ag Ed Summer Conference. Short and Bockbrader…
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Andy Michel
Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Entomology at The Ohio State University
Knows about:
ohio state university
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agriculture education
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agronomist
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biotechnology
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entomology
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pest management
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pests
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Cassandra Palsgrove
Program Administrator - Center for Teaching, Leading, and Learning
Knows about:
ffa
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agriculture education
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careers
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teacher education
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Chuck Crawford
Environmental Science Teacher at Dublin Jerome High School
Knows about:
agriculture education
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data
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environmental science
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simulations
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urban farming
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Congratulations to our Teacher Leader Katrina Swinehart!
Katrina Swinehart, a GrowNextGen teacher leader, was recently selected as one of DuPont Pioneer’s Agriscience Teachers of the Year. The path to this award began in December, as 315 teachers applied to be considered for this competitive opportunity.…
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Connecting Consumers to Agriculture podcast
Food is something that people care a lot about: How does it taste? How healthy is it? How fresh is it? Where did it come from? Connecting Consumers to Agriculture is a podcast about how farmers can reach out to the public and provide this…
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Dale Ireland
Technical Product Lead at US Seedcare Corn and Soybean
Knows about:
agricultural industry
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agriculture education
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agriscience
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r&d
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research and development
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seeds
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soybean
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From the coast to the heartland
A high school science teacher from California joined the group for this year’s Ag Biotech Academy held at Clark State Community College in Springfield. Saray Felix will begin teaching engineering this fall in an urban school in downtown Los Angeles.…
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G. Keymah Durden
Co-founder, Rid-All Green Partnership
Knows about:
agriculture education
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aquaculture
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elementary
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urban farming
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soil science
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Global Stem Academy Utilizes GrowNextGen Curriculum
What does the future of education look like? A glimpse at the learning going on at Global Impact STEM Academy (GISA) in Springfield, Ohio may be a good place to start. At GISA – founded in 2013 – students trade in textbooks for MacBooks and the last…
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How will technology change farming?
Farming has been around as long as man, and it’s seen a lot of changes. Farmers are always working to improve yield and efficiency. Make sure your tech-savvy students know how the information industry can benefit agriculture. Lance Donny of the…
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Jeremy Grove
Upper School principal at Open Door Christian Schools
Knows about:
ffa
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stem
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agriculture education
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agriscience
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biotechnology
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camps
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afterschool programs
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Katrina Swinehart
Assistant professor, School of Agricultural Education and Food Science, Central State University
Knows about:
agriculture education
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agriscience
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outreach
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Laura Ringler
Agricultural Science Teacher and FFA Advisor at Plymouth High School
Knows about:
ffa
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agriscience
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animal science
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plant science
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soil science
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agriculture education
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Meet our teacher leaders
Whitney Short teaches agriscience and biotechnology to 7th-12th graders at Anthony Wayne High School in Perrysburg, Ohio. She recently attended the Commodity Classic in Florida with a group of educators and found the collaboration really helpful in…
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Meredith Wolfe
Agricultural Technologies Teacher at Clay High School
Knows about:
agriculture education
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agriscience
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New AFNR units coming soon!
GrowNextGen teacher leaders and agriscience teachers Courtney Bockbrader, Meredith Wolfe, and Whitney Short are developing new units for classroom teachers. These units are part of the Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources course, the first course…
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New programs and improvements at ATI to share with your students!
Jason Hardin, an Environmental Science teacher at Gahanna Lincoln High School, shares news about ag education opportunities at ATI: I attended the annual Spring Update Day Educators’ Breakfast at the Ohio State Agricultural Technical Institute (ATI)…
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Pam Snyder
BioScience Technology Teacher at the Ft. Hayes Career Center and Columbus City Schools (retired)
Knows about:
ffa
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agriscience
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biology
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biotechnology
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genetics
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outreach
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agriculture education
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STEM Outreach—Students teaching students
Rachel Sanders and her students at Global Impact STEM Academy have been conducting outreach events to get students, especially girls and minorities, interested in STEM education. In just two recent weeks, Global Impact students went to four schools…
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Stephanie Jolliff
Ag Ed Instructor and FFA Advisor for Ridgemont Schools
Knows about:
stem
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career technical education
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technology
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agriculture education
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Students Use Biotechnology in Classroom
Juniors in the Agricultural Business Management class at Riverdale High School got first-hand experience with gel electrophoresis thanks to the Ag Biotech Academy and GrowNextGen Network. Agricultural Educator Nicole Steinmetz attended the Ag…
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What does a seed need to grow?
That’s what we asked the students at New Hope Christian Academy Field Day in April. They came up with all the right answers: the sun, water, dirt. Some mentioned ‘bonus’ items like worms and fertilizer! After telling them all about soybeans and…
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Whitney Short
Agriculture teacher at Pettisville High School
Knows about:
ffa
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agriscience
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biotechnology
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outreach
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agriculture education
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