Florida Member Eyes A Future in Forestry
Member Hendrix Paterson grows a successful SAE to serve his chapter, school and community.
Member Hendrix Paterson grows a successful SAE to serve his chapter, school and community.
This FFA alumna credits the organization – and FFA New Horizons – with helping her uncover her path to professional success. It was an FFA New Horizons article, much like the one you’re reading now, that helped Julie Groce determine she wanted to pursue a career in agricultural communications. Groce, a second-generation FFA member and former member and past president of the Hillsdale FFA in Jeromesville, Ohio, was interested in agricultural broadcasting and competed at the state level in Creed speaking and prepared public speaking leadership development events. She didn’t realize her passions and talents could easily be transformed into a rewarding career. She remembers flipping through FFA New Horizons and landing on an article that outlined the career possibilities in agricultural communications, and that was when she knew it was the path for her. “I was so excited to discover that people in ag communications often wrote about agriculture or worked on the broadcasting side, because both of those sounded perfect for me,” Groce says. “After reading that article, a light bulb went off for [...]
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Join AgExplorer live from Cargill’s Innovation Center in Wichita, Kan., on May 11 for a Virtual Field Trip! Registration is now open. AgExplorer's series of Virtual Field Trips transports you beyond the walls of your classroom into leading agricultural organizations so that you can gain a firsthand account of the diverse career opportunities within the agricultural industry. Register Now During May's Virtual Field Trip at Cargill, AgExplorer will take students inside the world of agriculture to learn how careers in science and technology play a key role in getting food to your table in a safe and affordable way. Students will hear from numerous Cargill employees that represent a variety of interesting careers, from a Food Marketer to Food Scientist, and more! Registration for the event is free and classrooms around the globe can participate by asking a question via AgExplorer.com or on social media with hashtag #AgExplorerVFT. Thursday, May 11 – 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. EDT Classrooms and teachers registered for the event will also be notified when the archive is available soon after the live event. [...]
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