STEM, AG & EDUCATION
Over 3,000 7th grade students from Linn and Benton County attended the STEM II Institute hosted by Kirkwood Community College's Workplace Learning Connection Center at the Kirkwood Regional Center in Hiawatha. Students had the opportunity to explore a variety of STEM careers including careers in agriculture. Morgan Hibbs, Linn County Farm Bureau and Shelby Shaefers, Buchanan and Delaware County Farm Bureau, co-hosted a workshop called STEM, AG and EDUCATION. Over 240 students
Prairie Point Students Explore Milk and Milk Substitutes!
Good afternoon! Today I had a blast presenting a National Ag in the Classroom (NAITC) lesson called Stacking up Milk and Milk Substitutes to a class of junior high students at Prairie Point. I was familiar with most of the milk substitutes available to us but I was unfamiliar with the taste of coconut and rice milk. I enjoyed walking around and hearing what the students had to say about the look, taste and smell of each milk. To begin, we asked the following questions; where
