Week 7: National FFA Week

This week was full of experienced based learning for the Fort Cherry agricultural and innovation lab students! The past few weeks students have been working on projects based on the 3-circle model for Agricultural Education. Some students were working on projects based from Classroom Instruction, others in Supervised Agricultural Experience and lastly, some were on FFA.

On Tuesday, we invited over the elementary school students to see the projects and high school students presented to them. Students had handouts for the elementary students to take with them and activities especially picked out for them. I cannot count the  number of time I heard, "This is SO cool!"

Thursday was the staff open house. Students brought in covered dishes for the staff and the staff and administration came down to see all of their hard work. Students would present their projects to them as well and answer questions as necessary. Also, 7th and 8th graders were able to come down and see what the department is all about. Many students mentioned that they may like to take these classes in the future.

To sum up the week, we hosted a community open house on Friday night where parents were able to come in and see their kids' projects along with other community members and Chapter supporters. There was also a potluck for attendees to eat dinner while they visited. It was very nice to meet students' parents and for the students to want to introduce me to their parents.

All in all, the week went really well and I am looking forward to doing something similar to this in the future in my program.