While we know that 4-H and FFA provide significant agriculture education, what is being done to reach students from non-farming households. 

Via Andrea Sexten - Eastern Kentucky University hosted a week long high school teacher workshop in June at EKU and sent participants home with over $2,000 dollars worth of equipment for their classroom. 

The Animal Science training workshop covered information and demonstrations in the following key areas:

• Animal nutrition teaching activities
• Genetic Analysis Case Study
• Industry Networking with state commodity groups
• Local industry tour – sites TBD
• Poultry Fabrication
• Ice Cream Making
• • Everyone will get an ice cream making ball to take home!
• Animal parasitology and blood analysis

Our hope is to develop a collaborative relationship with the high school agriculture teachers and help provide resources for curriculum development.  Participants will get to keep and take home to their classrooms:

• miniPCR thermocycler, gel electrophoresis, pipettes – a complete gene extraction kit for the classroom!
• Animal product fabrication kit
• Ice cream making ball
• Microscope
• Fecal and blood analysis kits