2023 Ag Educator’s Institute Agenda

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Day 1 – Sun, June 25

 

Time Event Location
1:00 – 2:00 pm
 Registration Wyndham – Garden Lobby
2:00 – 3:00 pm Welcome and Announcements Wyndham Meeting Room
3:00 – 3:30 pm Load buses & Travel to Ag Arena Wyndham – Front of Hotel
3:30 – 3:45 pm Karen Hack, Asst Director, PSU 4-H Youth Development PSU Ag Arena
3:45 – 5:45 pm Meet & Greet with 4-H Farm Animals PSU Ag Arena
5:45 – 6:00 pm Restrooms, wash up, move to upper level
6:00 – 6:45 pm Dinner PSU Ag Arena – 2nd Floor
6:45 – 7:15 pm Load buses; travel to hotel Outside Ag Arena
Daily Reflections on Your Own at Hotel Wyndham Hotel

Day 2 – Mon, June 26

Group A – Way Fruit Farm

Time Event Location
6:30 – 7:30 Complimentary breakfast on your own Wyndham Hotel – 2nd Floor
7:30 – 7:45 Daily Announcements Wyndham Meeting Room
7:45 – 8:45 Exploring PA State Standards, Tamara Peffer, PDE Wyndham Meeting Room
8:45 – 9:30 Load Buses & Travel to Way Fruit Farm Wyndham – Front of Hotel
Session 1:
9:30 – 10:30 Group A – Way Fruit Farm Way’s Outside Entrance
Group B – Mobile Ag Lab Water Lesson
Laurie Brundage, PA Friends of Ag Foundation		 Mobile Ag Lab, Way’s Parking Lot
10:30 – 10:40 Switch Tours
10:40 – 11:40 Group A – Mobile Ag Lab Water Lesson
Laurie Brundage, PA Friends of Ag Foundation		 Mobile Ag Lab, Way’s Parking Lot
Group B – Way Fruit Farm Way’s Outside Entrance
11:45 – 12:15 Lunch at Way Fruit Farm Way’s Outside Picnic Area
12:15 – 1:00 Load Buses & Travel to Campus Way’s Outside Entrance
Session 2:
1:00 – 2:15 Group A – Teaching Youth about Forestry
Sandy Smith & Calvin Norman, PSU Forestry		 Forestry Building #104
Group B – Discover Dairy
Michelle Shearer, Center for Dairy Excellence
Amy Yeiser Leslie, American Dairy Assoc. North East
 Forestry Building #105
2:15 – 2:25 Break/Switch Tours
2:25 – 3:40 Group A – Discover Dairy
Michelle Shearer, Center for Dairy Excellence
Amy Yeiser Leslie, American Dairy Assoc. North East		 Forestry Building #105
Group B – Teaching Youth about Forestry
Sandy Smith & Calvin Norman, PSU Forestry		 Forestry Building #104
3:40 – 4:10 Dairy Break – Creamery Visit Walk to Creamery
Session 3:
4:10 – 5:10 Groups A & B – Ag Careers
Dr. Tracy Hoover, Assoc. Dean for Undergraduate Educ, PSU		 Forestry Building # 102
5:10-5:30
 Load Buses & Travel to Hotel Outside Forestry Building
5:30 Dinner on Your Own
Daily Reflections Wyndham Hotel

Day 3 – Tues, June 27th

Time Event Location
6:30 – 7:30       Complimentary breakfast on your own Wyndham Hotel – 2nd Floor
7:30 – 8:30 Cheyenne Bastian Brown, FFA;  Phil Vonada, National Grange Wyndham Meeting Room
8:30 – 9:00       Load Buses & Travel to Ag Progress Grounds Front of Hotel
Session 1
9:00 – 10:30 Group A – Pasto Ag Museum, Rita Graef                             APD- Follow Presenter
Group B – Let’s Talk About the Woods
Sandy Smith & Calvin Norman, PSU		 APD- Follow Presenter
 10:30 – 10:40 Switch Tours
10:40 – 12:10 Group A – Let’s Talk About the Woods
Sandy Smith & Calvin Norman, PSU		 APD- Follow Presenter
Group B – Pasto Ag Museum, Rita Graef          APD- Follow Presenter
12:15 – 12:45 Lunch catered by Hoag’s APD – Special Events Building
12:45 – 1:15 Load Buses & Travel to Campus APD – Outside Special Events Building
Session 2:
1:20 – 2:35 Group A – Water & Ag
Dr. Tyler A Groh, Watershed Management Ext. Specialist		 Forestry #104
Group B – Dairy/Berkey Creamery
Dr. Robert Roberts, PSU Professor/Head, Dept of Food Science		 Forestry #105
2:35 – 2:45 Switch Tours
2:45 – 4:00       Group A – Dairy/Berkey Creamery
Dr. Robert Roberts, PSU Professor/Head, Dept of Food Science		 Forestry #105
Group B – Water & Ag
Dr. Tyler A Groh, Watershed Management Ext. Specialist		 Forestry #104
4:00 – 4:30 Load Buses & Travel to Hotel Outside Forestry Building
Session 3:
4:30 – 5:30       Groups A & B   Group Planning with Colleagues/Participants Wyndham Meeting Room
5:30 – 6:00 Free Time
6:00 Dinner Wyndham Hotel
Daily Reflections Wyndham Hotel

Day 4 – Weds, June 28th

Time Event Location
6:30 – 7:30 Complimentary breakfast on your own Wyndham Hotel, 2nd Floor
7:30 – 8:15 PFB Resources, Chris Hoffman, PA Farm Bureau President
Chris Hoffman – PA Farm Bureau President & Ag Foundation Chairman		 Wyndham Meeting Room
8:15 – 8:30 Load Buses and Travel to Tour Locations Outside Wyndham Hotel
Session 1:
8:30 – 9:45 Group A – PSU Dairy Barns
Travis Edwards, PSU Dairy Barns		 PSU Dairy Barn
Group B – The PSU Arboretum
Heather Desorcie Frantz, Department of Entomology		  PSU Arboretum
9:45 – 10:00     Switch Tours
10:00 – 11:15 Group A – The PSU Arboretum
Heather Desorcie Frantz, Department of Entomology		 PSU Arboretum
Group B – PSU Dairy Barns
Travis Edwards, PSU Dairy Barns		 PSU Dairy Barn
11:15 – 11:30   Load Buses/ Travel to Forestry Building Outside Tour Locations
11:30 – 11: 45 Clean Up/Restrooms Forestry Building
11:45 – 12:45 Lunch catered by Hoag’s Forestry Building #102
12:45 – 1:00 Transition/Load Buses/Travel to Campus
Session 2:
1:00 – 2:30 Group A – Vegetable Gardening
Dr Elsa Sánchez, PSU Hort. Systems; Tom Butzler, PSU Ext. Educ.		 Forestry Building # 104
Group B – Learning about Poultry
Dr. John Boney, Assist. Prof. Poultry Science, PSU		 Forestry Building # 112
2:30 – 2:45         Switch Groups
2:45 – 4:15 Group A – Learning about Poultry
Dr. John Boney, Assist. Prof. Poultry Science, PSU		 Forestry Building # 112
Group B – Vegetable Gardening
Dr Elsa Sánchez, PSU Hort. Systems; Tom Butzler, PSU Ext. Educ.		 Forestry Building # 104
4:15 – 4:45         Load Buses and Travel to Hotel Outside Forestry Building
4:45 – 6:00 Free Time – Get ready for Banquet Wyndham Hotel
6:00 – 8:00 Recognition Dinner Banquet Wyndham Banquet Room
Daily Reflections Wyndham Hotel

Day 5 -Thurs, June 29th

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Time Event Location
6:30 – 7:45 Complimentary breakfast on your own Wyndham Hotel – 2nd Floor
7:45 – 8:00 Announcements Wyndham Meeting Room
8:00 – 9:15 Groups A & B – Planning with Colleagues/Participants Wyndham Meeting Room
9:15 – 10:00 Groups A & B – Load Buses & Travel to Brush Mountain Farm Outside Wyndham Hotel
10:00 -11:00 Group A & B – Bison and Hemp Tour
Herb Grove, Owner		 Brush Mountain Farm
11:00 -11:45 Load buses & Travel to Hotel Brush Mountain Farm
11:45 – 12:15 What an awesome week – let’s wrap it up! Wyndham Meeting Room
Lunch on your own