Experiential Learning Opportunities
Students with a Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) learn by doing. With help from their agriculture teachers, students develop an SAE project based on one more more SAE categories.
All students enrolled in agricultural education courses are required to develop an SAE in order to apply classroom learning to the real world. Students are required to keep records on their project, and are encouraged to develop plans to change and/or GROW their project based on their own interests.
Exploratory
Explore careers in agriculture by attending an agriculture career fair, or creating a report or documentary on the work of a veterinarian.
Placement
Get a job or internship on a farm or ranch, at an agriculture-based business, or in a school or factory laboratory.
Can be paid or unpaid.
Entrepreneurship
Own and operate an agricultural business (e.g. raise livestock for fair, a lawn care service, a pay-to-fish operation, holiday poinsettia production and sales.)
Research
Plan and conduct a scientific experiment. (e.g. Determine whether the phases of the moon affect plant growth, or test and determine the efficacy of different welding methods.)