SAE and You!

1. SAE and You!

2. Objectives • Define what a Supervised Agriculture Experience is. • Explain the benefits of an SAE program. • Describe what the four types of SAE programs are. • Explore opportunities for SAE programs.

3. Supervised Agriculture Experience • Supervised agricultural experience programs involve practical agricultural activities performed by students outside of scheduled classroom and laboratory time.

4. Supervised Agriculture Experience • Provide a chance for “real world” experience • SAE is the application of class instruction: • Enjoyable experiences through SAE • Help you to explore & identify interests • Opportunity to make some MONEY

5. Benefits of SAE • Students • Schools • Employers • Communities • Parents • Teachers

6. SAE Benefits • You the student… • Skills development • Money management, record keeping • Responsibility, work ethic • School-to-work

7. SAE Benefits Cont… • Future career opportunities • Advanced FFA Degrees • Proficiency Awards

9. Exploratory and Service • Allows students to explore subjects or careers in agriculture through specific activities. • Many beginning students use this type of SAE to learn what they want to study in more depth. • The student plans this type of SAE under the direction of the teacher, parent, mentor, or others. • What are some things you want to explore?

10. Exploratory SAE’s

11. Improvement Activities • A series of activities that improve the • efficiency • value • use • or appearance of the place of employment, home, school or community.

12. Improvement Activities

13. Entrepreneurship SAE • Refers to student activities conducted by students as owners or managers for profit. • Student owns the materials and inputs. • A production enterprise is when students own plants or animals for their program. • An agribusiness enterprise is one where the student buys and sells an agricultural commodity for profit, rather than raising or growing the commodity. • What are some ideas?

14. Agri-Entrepreneurship Award • Honors FFA members who have recognized a market opportunity that was overlooked by others and conceived a plan to pursue that opportunity. • Cash awards to student and chapter • Let’s meet some winners… 

18. Entrepreneurship SAE’s

19. Placement SAE • Student is placed with an employer in a production unit to produce commodities for wages. • In this program the student works for another individual. • The students may or may not receive pay. • The students do not own the products used or produced. They belong to the employer. • Some examples…

20. Placement SAE’s…

21. Research SAE • Science-based experience using laboratory procedures to study a problem or investigate a new product. • Research may be done wherever suitable facilities are available. • The National FFA organization provides an award to the outstanding agriscience student and teacher based on this type of SAE.

22. What are some research SAE’s?

23. How can I get started? • Interest Areas – What would you like to learn about? • Ideas…coming soon, SAE card activity • Logistics • Who, what, when, where, how much • National FFA Career Pathway Grants http://www.ffa.org/index.cfm?method=c_programs.SAE

24. Exploratory Research/ Experimentation Ownership/ Entrepreneurship Placement Working in a florist shop Owning a Christmas tree farm Comparing the effect of hormones on plant growth Shadowing a veterinarian on career day Growing and selling bedding plants Working in school greenhouse after school Match the SAE with the Area

25. Let’s Review… • What is SAE? • What are some benefits of an SAE program? • What the four types of SAE programs?