Wednesday, November 13, 2013

SAE Student Succes Stories - Story #3 - Arizona

SAE is one of the most unique educational tools at our disposal as agriscience educators. SAEs have long standing impact on the lives of students. SAEs are not optional.

Story #3 - Arizona
Young lady named Katie is in our program and she lives in the city with not a lot of land. her parents are scraping by and need Katie to help pay the for college and her vehicles. Katie has really only the skills that she learned in the ag program so she decides to start a business marketing and selling metal insects that she learned to make in class. She spends her time outside of class designing and fabricating these items both in our shop and at home. She has made money to help pay for both her vehicle and her college (she wants to be an ag teacher). This SAE has also given her confidence and helped her grow closer to her dad who helped her on the project. I think this last part is the most important!

Submitting Teacher: Mr. Patrick Wellert

SAE Theorem #1 (Moore, 2003, The Agricultural Education Magazine)
All students should have a SAE. When the Smith-Hughes Act was passed in 1917, one of the provisions in the act required all students to have a SAE. Our founding fathers deemed it critical for the success of the agricultural program to have applied “Hands-on-learning”. SAE is recognized as one of the three major components of an agricultural education program. Students can learn much and benefit greatly from a SAE (Dyer & Williams, 1997)

You are a developing positive agent of change who will one day help students explore and grow into their unlimited potential through agricultural education!

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