South East Kentucky Bee School 2018

Importance: McCreary County has over 75 beekeepers with over 550 hives. This was the ninth Bee School held between McCreary and Whitley County.

Educational Programs: The South Eastern Bee Keeping School was held to assist bee keepers in South Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee with needed information to make their bee keeping efforts more successful. An all day program was held that offered 25 different educational classes that bee keepers could attend, from beginning to advanced. A trade show was also held during the school.

Extension Role: The McCreary and Whitley Cooperative Extension Services sponsored the event along with the Whitley County and Big South Fork Beekeepers, the McCreary Central FFA. The ANR Agent helped plan the program along with a, recruited speakers, publicized the event, taught two sessions and worked the event that day.

Impact:  

       115 people from 2 states attended the event. 

        The following were some questions asked to participants.

       1. Have you attended a Bee School before? Yes  50% No 50%

2. If you answered yes to question #1 how you have used your knowledge you learned from attending?

        3. Please rate the experience you had in your class(es) with 1 being not good and 5 being great. 1 0%  2 0%       3 0%    4 26%  5 74%

        4 . Please rate the experience you had for the day with 1 being not good and 5 being great.

                 1 0%                2 0%                3 0%                4 23%              5 77%

 5. Did you learn a new skill? Yes  98%_ No  2%

 6. Did you increase your knowledge and skill level? Yes 97% No 3%

 7. Do you plan on teaching any new skills learned to others? Yes 60% No 40%

 8. Please rate the following on a scale of 1-5 with 1 being very poor and 5 being excellent         Overall Program Rating  4.79 

 9. One a scale of 1-5, with 1 being none and 5 being a lot, please rate your knowledge of the topics you attended prior to attending the school.            2.54 Average

 10. One a scale of 1-5, with 1 being none and 5 being a lot, please rate your knowledge of the topics you attended after attending the school.    3.91 Average

 11 . Additional Comments 

* Excellent program.

* It was great! Thank you.

* Everyone done a great job!

* Awesome!

* Great Day! 

* Learned a lot from talking to people between sessions. 

* Thank you!

 Evaluation: A post survey was given to participants.