Author: Tad Campbell
Planning Unit: Entomology
Major Program: Local Food Systems
Plan of Work: Unrelated to a specified County Plan of Work
Outcome: Initial Outcome
Promoting agriculture to younger generations will continue the success of agriculture from education.The Mason County Agriculture and Natural Resources agent partnered with the Maysville Community and Technical College to host an agricultural career day as part of the Career Craze Program offered through the college. The basis of the program is to bring awareness of careers to middle school aged youth offered by different sectors of industry across the county.Agriculture offers a vast amount of careers to job seekers, many of which are not understood as agriculture based.The Mason County Extension Agriculture Program arranged for speakers of a locally owned agriculture business and an agriculture finance group to discuss agricultural jobs that each business has to make each successful. Each group presented the different types of jobs that are needed for their business to succeed and reach goals for success. Activities conducted during the day also centered on agriculture careers as the youth participated. First the youth made bread from scratch learning about the different careers needed to make bread. Finally the youth participated in locally developed game of Agriculture Career Jeopardy.Agriculture careers were defined while the youth had to select the correct career matching the definition.Eight youth, three speakers, and three volunteers took part in the day event enlightening the youth of the potential agriculture offers as a career choice. At the conclusion of the event three youth expressed that they did not realize the number of careers offered in the Agriculture industry. Four youth also expressed they didn’t think they could make bread that would taste good. The bread was baked while the youth participated in the jeopardy game.After baking was complete the youth were able to eat some of the bread prepared by them. The entire group was amazed at how good the bread was and couldn’t wait to take it home to share.
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