Welcome Back to School! #WeAreBack

With the weather changing, students back on campus, and the smell of fresh textbooks in the air, it only means one thing: the school year has officially started. Over 16,000 new students were welcomed into the Nittany Lion Pride and we know how crazy your first year as a college student can be! While the freshmen are adjusting to their new year, the seniors are wrapping up their Penn State experience by going out with a bang! Some of those seniors include the 2016 class of 13 stellar Agriculture Extension and Education majors that will be working hard throughout the fall semester for their student teaching. That being said, we want to make sure that we capture all of the College of Agriculture students and inform them of some events coming up! 

Teach Ag! Society:

September 2^nd:

•         Hosting a Welcome Wings Meeting at 6:15 on the Ferguson Building Lawn
•         Working at the Involvement Fair at the Creamery Lawn from 11-3

September 24^th: NATIONAL TEACH AG DAY!

•          Hosting Dave Burgess author of  "Teach Like a PIRATE”.
•          Dave Burgess session for students in the HUB’s Freedom Hall from 8:30-10AM.
•          Live Stream Webcast for National Teach Ag Day from 1:45 to 4PM in 214 Ferguson

CFFA:

Tuesday September 8th at 6PM Welcome Back Picnic on Ferguson Lawn! Come out and meet some CFFA members and enjoy some awesome food!

Meeting Schedule: 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 7PM in 214 Ferguson are Membership Meetings.

To learn more about starting on the path to having a career that makes a positive impact on the lives of students across the globe by becoming an agricultural educator, please contact the agricultural teacher education program at teachag@psu.edu. Follow us on Twitter at TeachAgPSU, on Facebook, or on our blog!

Olivia Murphy-Sweet

Blog Editor

2016 Student Teacher

@OSweetMuph

PSU Teach Ag! Society Welcomes You Back to School! #agedu

Since it is the beginning of the school year, the Teach Ag! Society would like to welcome you to the new school year! If you have never heard of Teach! Ag Society, we are a group of motivated agriculture education students who do activities involving the Agriculture Education major and complete other educational events throughout the year! You don't have to be in the major to join this awesome organization! If you don’t know the officers, we would like to introduce you to the team.

2014 Teach Ag! Society Executive Team

President:
Ms. Jillian Gordon,
 2015 Student Teacher,
 @jillianpsu

Vice President: 

Ms. Laura Metrick,

2015 Student Teacher,

 @Its_Laurabeth

Secretary: 
Ms. Cassidy Cheddar,
 2015 Student Teacher,
@crcheddar

Membership Secretary:
Ms. Janae Bickhart, 

2015 Student Teacher,

@JanaeBickhart

Treasurer:

 Mr. Tyler Schaeffer,

 2015 Student Teacher,

 @TylerDSchaeffer

CFFA Liaison:

Ms. Deanna Miller,

 2015 Student Teacher,

 @deannapsu15

Social Committee Chairs:

Ms. Amanda Forstater,

 2015 Student Teacher, @CityAggie

 Ms. Katie Andrews, 
2015 Student Teacher, @klandrews_24

Prof. Dev. Committee Chair:

Ms. Rea Ianson, 

2015 Student Teacher,

 @rnianson08

Fundraising Committee Chair:

Mr. Howard Poole, 

2015 Student Teacher,

@howie_plumcrazy

Outreach & Comm. Service

Ms. Rachel Telesz 

2015 Student Teacher,

@rachie12rach

Ms. Olivia Murphy-Sweet, 

2015 Student Teacher,

@OSweetMurph

If you see any of the officers or committee chairs, feel free to stop by and ask them questions! We just had our Welcome Back Picnic, so keep in touch with our future events!  Keep checking your Teach Ag Tuesday Email Blast's (to be added to the listserv email foster@psu.edu)  for more information and when our meetings are going to be held!

 Become apart of the Ag Ed TEAM!

To learn more about starting on the path to having a career that makes a positive impact on the lives of students across the globe by becoming an agricultural educator, please contact the agricultural teacher education program at teachag@psu.edu. Follow us on Twitter at TeachAgPSU, on Facebook, or on our blog!

Olivia Murphy-Sweet

Student Blogger

Teach Ag! Avenger

Twitter Handle- @OSweetMurph

 2016 Agricultural Education Student Teacher 

Turn Down For What?! #newbeginnings #agedu

On behalf of the Student Blogging Team, we would like to welcome everyone back to the new school year! Whether you are starting as a newbie freshman or a spunky senior, a former student or a perspective student, a past or current agriculture educator or an interested onlooker we know that this year is going to be a blast and we invite you to follow along with us! 

Check out this blog throughout the year to see what is going on in the world of Agriculture Education here at Penn State. You can also see the incredible impact the current and past students are having throughout the state and across the country! 

To start off this semester, we would like to introduce ourselves!

Hello! My name is Olivia Murphy-Sweet (@OSweetMurph) and I am a junior this year at University Park! I am super excited to be back and hoping to make a lot of memories with our awesome 'ag ed' team, I am currently a Teach Ag Avenger, the community service chair of Teach Ag Society, as well as, I was just selected to be a National Teach Ag Ambassador! Even though this year is going to be busy, I know that it is going to go by quickly and that only leads into student teaching. I can't wait to bring my passion of agriculture to the 'real world'!

I'm Laura Metrick (@Its_LauraBeth) and I am excited to be starting my senior year at one of the greatest universities in the world! It's hard to believe this will be my last year in State College but I am excited for what the future holds. I am a current Teach Ag Avenger, a member of Alpha Tau Alpha and the Vice President of the Teach Ag Society. This spring I will be student teaching at Conneaut Area Senior High with Ellen Aurand! I am looking forward to another great semester where Olivia and I, as the student bloggers, will get to share with you all the exciting things happening in the world of Agriculture Education! 

We hope this blog will show you the incredible success stories of the Penn State Agriculture and Extension Education Program. If you have any ideas, suggestions, or want to share the AWESOME things that you have done, or are going to do, please email us at, teachag@psu.edu. We always welcome Guest BLOGGERS! 

We hope to hear from you!

To learn more about starting on the path to having a career that makes a positive impact on the lives of students across the globe by becoming an agricultural educator, please contact the agricultural teacher education program at teachag@psu.edu. Follow us on Twitter at TeachAgPSU, on Facebook, or on our blog! 

Olivia Murphy-Sweet &

Laura Metrick 

Student Bloggers