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Ag Education Days brings hands-on agriculture and technology lessons to more than 1,100 students
Summary
Organizers told the Board of Education of Cecil County that the county’s Ag Education Days engaged roughly 1,100 seventh graders, was supported by more than 80 volunteers and sponsors, cost about $87,959 to stage, and will run again next April as a community-funded, nonprofit-run event.
Representatives of the Cecil County Ag Education Days Planning Association presented the board with results from the multi-day event that brought agricultural, conservation and ag-technology stations to more than 1,100 seventh-grade students.
The presentation, led by planning association volunteers and University of Maryland Extension affiliate Dr. Paul Rickard, described a three-day program that deployed 12 education stations covering food systems, land and water…
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