PAAE Regional Meeting

After attending PAAE Summer Professional Development conference and the National Association of Agricultural Educators I realized the importance of being engaged in your professional organizations.  Earlier this month Mr. Masser and I attended the Easter Region PAAE meeting.  It was great to hear an update about the summer conference and some of the exciting workshops that will be hosted there, along with other tours and events.  Also on the agenda was updates and concerns in the profession, and the importance of advocating for the profession.  It was great to hear how different agriculture teachers have gone about the latest MOU to continue to keep Mr. Chris Weller's position for agricultural education in Pennsylvania.  It was also great to connect with other agriculture teachers- as always.  After the meeting Mr. Masser and I took a tour of the agriculture facilities at Conrad Weiser, and they are awesome!  The agriscience focus of Conrad Weiser is incredible.  It included a dry lab, a wet lab, a small lab room, another small growing lab, greenhouse, mini barn with a steer and an agricultural library and work room!  The program and teachers also assist with a summer institute to give students additional opportunities to do science or agriscience research!  Needless to say, we were in awe!