SAE

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SAE

• Horticulture I

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What is SAE?

• SAEs are a great way to get classroom credit and
  FFA awards for doing things like exploring
  careers, earning money and having fun!

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• An SAE (Supervised Agricultural Experience) is a
  practical application of classroom concepts
  designed to provide real world experiences and
  develop skills in agriculturally related career
  areas.

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How Does a SAE Help Me?

• Develop skills that can be used in getting a job
• Provides the opportunity to make money
• Develops skills that can be used in starting you
  own business
• Helps development managementskills

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How Does a SAE Help Me...?

• Learn record keeping skills
• Improves analytical and decision making skills
• Teaches responsibility
• Provides the opportunity to explore possible
  careers

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How Does a SAE Help Me...?

• Develops knowledge and skills that could be
  helpful in college, as a hobby or for recreation.
• Provides the opportunity to win awards FFA
  proficiency awards are based on the SAE program.
  In addition to winning awards, money can be won
  at regional, state and national levels

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How Does a SAE Help Me...?

• FFA degrees are partially based on the SAE. You
  must have a SAE program to advance.
• In order to be a state or national officer, you
  first must have an advanced FFA degree which is
  partially based on SAE.
• Could help the grade in Agriculture class.
• Help with your Graduation Project!

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Types of SAEs

• Entrepreneurship
• Placement
• Research
• Experimental
• Non-Experimental
• Exploratory
• Improvement
• Supplemental

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Entrepreneurship

• Plan, implement, operate and assume financial
  risks of a farming activity or agricultural
  business.
• YOU ARE THE BOSS!!!

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Placement

• Placed on a farm, in an agribusiness, or at the
  school laboratory to work for another for pay or
  no pay.
• You answer to someone else.

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Placement

• What you need

• Training Agreement
  (signed by all parties)
• Record of work
• Hours worked
• Income earned

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Experimental

• Extensive activity where you plan and conduct a
  major agricultural experiement using the
  scientific process.
• Get some crazy hair and start experimenting!!

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Analytical

• Choose an agricultural problem that is not
  amenable to experimentation and design a plan to
  investigate and analyze the problem.
• Market something-advertising

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Exploratory

• Become literate and aware of an interested ag
  career.
• Job Shadowing

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Exploratory

• What you need

• Date
• Activity
• Observations
• Comments
• Hours

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Improvement

• Series of learning activities that improves the
  value or appearance of a place of employment,
  home, school or community.

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Improvement

• What you need

• Date Started
• Date Completed
• Steps involved in the project
• Hours and Costs

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Supplementary

• Perform one specific ag skill outside of normal
  class time.
• The activity is accomplished in less than a day
  and does not require a series of steps.
• Examples pruning a tree, staking tomatoes,
  cleaning up brush in a park

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Supplementary

• What you need
• Date
• Activities
• Comments
• Hours

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SAE Project Requirements

• An A 10 HOURS OF WORK. Less than 10 hours
  will drop you a letter grade.
• You must keep up with your record book and take
  before, during and after pictures.
• You must keep up with your time worked in your
  record book.
• You must get parents signatures in your book.