THE BRAE WEEKLYEngineering and systems management support for agriculture

The Weekly Newsletter for the BioResource & Agricultural Engineering Department

WEEK 8~ May 21st, 2018

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BRAE 414 Field Trip!

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APPLICATION FOR $1,000 SCHOLARSHIP AWARDAll high school seniors and current students at tech schools, community, junior and four-year colleges and universities are eligible. Awards will only be granted once per individual. Please limit response to space provided. Applications may be typed or hand-written.Application deadline is September 1st. Electronic submission preferred. FAX: 707-678-0125 (or) E-Mail: sfiack@thezenith.com

2355 North Lincoln Street * Dixon, CA 95620-9215 * (800) 576-8850 * Sandy Fiack, Scholarship Chair

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May/June CalendarSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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30 31AES BarbecueBRAE Ramp

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10 11 12 13 14 15 16Commencement

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American Pistachio Growers • Garth & Michelle Pecchenino 1229 N. Orchard Drive • Merced, California 95340 • Thepistachiofactory.com

Little Sister OrchardsProud Supporters of Learn by Doing

5Engineers without BordersMeetings:Monday- Sustainability Task Force, Project Team MeetingsTuesday - IMPACTTh ursday - Tea Time Announcements: Fiji FundraisersEWB Spring Banquet - End of year celebration!

Meetings: Sustainability Task Force: Do you want to improve EWB? Sustainability Task Force (STF) is open to everyone and is a space to identify problems in EWB and collectively create solutions to improve our club. We want to ensure that our chapter is fulfi lling its purpose of “equipping leaders to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges” by working on projects related to socio, economic, cross-generational and environmental sustainability. Monday from 6-7pm in 10-231! Project Meetings are every Monday from 7:00-9:00pm! Feel free to try out diff erent project teams and be sure to introduce your-selves to the PMs if you’re new to EWB!Here are the team room locations: Fiji: 10-231Local Projects: 22-313Th ailand: 38-121Nicaragua: 192-242Malawi: 22-211 IMPACT: IMPACT, Engineers Without Borders’ volunteering team, works with nonprofi ts across SLO County to carry on the tradition of thinking globally and acting locally. IMPACT organizes volunteering events that unite EWB members and fellow Cal Poly students with local nonprofi ts dedicated to the community EWB Cal Poly knows and loves. Th is quarter we will be fi x-ing up the big IMPACT board to be used next year, so come join us if you love a good art project. Email ewbimpact@gmail.com to fi nd out when our next workday is! Tea Time is a time to chat with the president and vice president about anything and everything. It’s basically open offi ce hours and we’d love to see you! It’s every Th ursday 11am-12pm. We will be on the 2nd fl oor of the lib. Look for our EWB shirts/boxes of tea!

Announcements:5/26 - Fundraiser at Chipotle for Fiji TeamFundraiser at Chipotle (Madonna Road location) on May 26th from 4-8 PM. Anybody planning on participating must do one of the three:a) verbally tell our cashier of their participationb) show a physical fundraiser fl yerc) show a digital fl yer on a smartphone or other mobile device.Here is the fl yer! 6/1 - EWB Spring BanquetCome celebrate EWB and all our hard work this year! Th is is a great opportunity to meet other members of EWB and eat good food. Spring Banquet is 7-9pm, Friday June 1st at the Berg Gallery. Tickets are $20 with dinner included.Venmo @EWBCalPoly or pay in cash (DJ will be coming around each week). Email dkim129@calpoly.edu for any questions! Click here for the invita-tion! 6/2 - Fijian Barndance Come dance with us and the Line Dancing Club Saturday May 2nd in the Chumash Auditorium from 7pm to midnight! Tickets will be $5 and lessons run from 7-9pm. Bring your friends and come out and support Team Fiji and the Line Dancing Club!

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National Teach Ag Campaign 300 Garrigus, Lexington, KY 40546-0215 859.257.2224 | www.naae.org/teachag

NEWS RELEASE

For more information: Ellen Thompson Project Director National Teach Ag Campaign ethompson.naae@uky.edu Phone: (605) 350-3842

May 18, 2018

TWELVE FUTURE AGRICULTURE TEACHERS SELECTED FOR NATIONAL TEACH AG AMBASSADOR PROGRAM

The National Teach Ag Campaign is pleased to announce its selection of 12 future agriculture teachers to serve as the 2018-2019 National Teach Ag Ambassadors. Beginning this summer, the ambassadors will participate in training that will prepare them to advocate for agricultural education at the 91st National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, October 24-27. The ambassadors will represent the National Teach Ag Campaign at the convention by encouraging students who stop by the Teach Ag booth to become agriculture teachers in the future. As the ambassadors engage with the students and teachers who visit the booth, they will develop a cohort of current and future agriculture teachers, who they will keep in contact with throughout their year of service to inspire the next generation of leaders, problem solvers, entrepreneurs and agriculturalists. The National Teach Ag Ambassador Program was developed as an effort to address the current demand for agriculture teachers nationwide. The need for agriculture teachers in the United States remains high due to retirements, current program growth, new programs opening, and current teachers who leave the profession to explore other opportunities. The ambassadors work to promote the need for high-quality and diverse agriculture teachers while at National FFA Convention and throughout the year. Beyond their duties at the National FFA Convention, the ambassadors will work with agricultural education leaders in their states to promote the mission of the National Teach Ag Campaign, by encouraging high school and postsecondary students to consider a career in teaching agriculture. The ambassadors will use several different outlets to accomplish this task; including social media, email, workshops, booths, and presentations. Through these various opportunities, the ambassadors will build their own professional networks and develop leadership and communications skills they will need in their future careers as agriculture teachers.

“The ambassador program creates unique opportunities to connect those considering teaching agriculture as a career, with those majoring in agricultural education, and current agriculture teachers,” said Ellen Thompson, National Teach Ag Campaign Project Director. “It is one of our most successful programs as it combines mentoring, recruitment, and preservice professional development.”

Th e 12 National Teach Ag Ambassadors for the 2018-2019 academic year are Abigail Chambers, University of Mary-land-Eastern Shore; Belmary Pagan Galarza, North Carolina A&T University; Darcie Gallagher, Kansas State University; Courtney Herrera, Texas A&M University; Brianna Lammers, Purdue University; Chad Lewis, University of Tennes-see-Martin; Maggie Martens, Oklahoma State University; Armando Nevarez, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo; Rebekka Paskewitz, South Dakota State University; Gabby Power, Southwest Minnesota State University; MaKayla Rose, Morehead State University; Megan Whited, Washington State University.Th e National Teach Ag Campaign is an initiative of the National Council for Agricultural Education, led by the National Association of Agricultural Educators. Funding for the National Teach Ag Campaign is provided by the CHS Foundation, Corteva AgriscienceTM Agriculture Division of DowDuPontTM, BASF, Herman & Bobbie Wilson, and Growth Energy, as a special project of the National FFA Foundation. Th e campaign is designed to raise an awareness of the need to recuit and retain high quality and diverse agriculture teachers, encourage others to consider a career as an agriculture teacher, and celebrate the positive contributions that agriculture teachers make in our schools and communities. For more information about the National Teach Ag Campaign, visit http://www.naae.org/teachag.