Internship Placement

I was so excited to get a call back from Jackson Hewitt about starting my part-time internship in the Spring with them. In order to graduate in December, I had to continue to take a full course load of classes this semester. Therefore, I was happy I could find something locally in Tuscaloosa so that I could take classes at the same time while working part-time. It was tough at first managing my five classes, work-study, and internship all in one semester but I managed to pull through it successfully. With that being said, my internship at Jackson Hewitt was a success and I learned many wonderful things that could potentially benefit my future career.

Interning at the FBI is one of my most meaningful experiences because it gave me the opportunity to serve in my community, learn how to effectively communicate between the intelligence community and the outside community, as well as strengthened my leadership skills.

In the summer of 2017, I lost my father to a tragic farming accident. I was devastated, I felt as if my life could not continue, although I had to push through because I could not take a year off from college. My father was my inspiration to pursuing an education in agriculture. From a young age, he taught to garden and to work with animals. I loved planting the seeds in the ground and watching them grow and enjoying the fresh crops on our table.Through the knowledge, my father gave me I learned the importance of farming and ranching after all people will always need to eat. Later, my skills led me to become an involved member and officer in FFA at Chelan High school. Chelan FFA helped me gain confidence in myself and further opened my eyes

I completed the Hispanic National Internship Program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), for the Summer 2017 Session. My duties were as follows:

Growing up on a family farm in rural South Dakota, I never considered myself different from any other farm kid. At the age of eight, I joined the local 4-H club. Through my ten years of membership, I have participated in many differing project areas from showing beef calves to visual arts and everything in between. Through my many failures, I learned from my mistakes taking numerous best of show awards at county fair and finding success at state fair. 4-H has also given me the opportunity to become more involved in my community through local, county, and statewide community service projects. 4-H sparked my interest in agriculture.

I recently did a Food for America project, which is a project on basically anything having to do with agriculture, presented to children in my town and too many others. For my project I chose to do Shribers Foods. If you don’t know, Shribers is a company that makes dairy products all over America. Shribers was even kind enough to donate some cheese to my group as samples for the children to whom I presented. That is an excellent example of how adults can help out. I’d like to connect FFA and Young Farmers Farm Wives of America, because if everyone grouped together we could make Food for America bigger and better each year, by having more things to see, especially things the FFA students don’t have or couldn’t acquire, but that could be brought in from the young farmers to do a presentation over, then more education is spread to the younger generation.

Growing up on a third generation beef and crop farm has helped me gain a love of agriculture. Since I was a child I have been helping out the farm and have had a love of agriculture ever since. I currently own four of my own beef cows and each year I raise the calves to sell in the fall. My future dream is to take over the family farm after I finish college, as well as work as an agricultural loan officer. In high school I joined FFA. This organization truly changed my perspective on Agricultural as a whole. It made me realize

The FFA mission statement reads “Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve”. The Columbia City FFA Chapter worked to fulfill this mission statement by embarking in a new community service project called Read to Feed with the Indiana FFA Association and Heifer International. Through this program, FFA members were provided the opportunity to impact first grade elementary students by heightening their awareness of international agricultural issues through service and literacy. The chapter partnered with first grade classes from Little Turtle and Coesse Elementary Schools. The first grade students read and recorded their reading minutes, while FFA members were out advocating the event to local businesses to gain their support

For instance, funded by the U.S. Department of Education TRIO Grant, the UB Program for English Language Learners (ELL) at Rowan University focuses on providing college preparatory activities and supportive services to low income students in grades 9 or 10 who are able to maintain their GPA at 2.0, who

The mission of the National Postsecondary Agricultural Student Organization is to “provide opportunities for individual growth, leadership and career preparation” (PAS, About PAS). What started out as a small organization, a little over 30 years ago, has now blossomed into something much bigger. As the new Executive Director of PAS, my goals are to continue to fulfill the mission while also making improvements to the organization. I believe there is still a lot of potential for the organization to yet be fulfilled.

With the ever-growing population farmers have had to come up with solutions for a very common problem… hunger. Sadly roughly 21,000 die every day of hunger worldwide (globalissues.org). With these shocking statistics farmers have had to put the pedal to the medal to produce food for not just north America but the world. Yet countless people in the United States of America still hold strong opinions on how the agriculture industry is not doing as best as they can be. Yet like most of millennials in America they want to take no responsibility and educate themselves; yet want to put their two cents into every conversation and post of social media. Therefore every student that graduates must be enrolled into an agriculture class at least one time within their four year stay at high school.

Undergraduate Student Spotlight: Savannah Woodall Agricultural Education and Communication senior, Savannah reflects on some of her experiences in AEC as well as upcoming opportunities because of AEC. Savannah Woodall is extremely involved in AEC and College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS). She is a CALS Ambassador, which she

Advocating for agriculture in the Utah state Association I can talk to my local elementary school and going to community events and advocating for agriculture. I can also advocate for agriculture by incorporating agricultural topics in my other classes at school. The FFA mission states "FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth, and career success through agricultural education." In the FFA code of ethics it states "Make a positive difference in the lives of others." To make a positive difference in others’ lives you need to show that you know FFA and the different ways it can impact our lives, with a faith born not of words but of deeds- achievements won by present and past generations of agriculturists; in the promise of better days through better ways, even as the better things we now enjoy have come to us from the struggle of former years. If you want to be your best, you must look ay yourself and identify things that you’d like to continue to build on and

I am writing to express my interest in the position of Heifer Village Coordinator. For the past year, I have been volunteering at Heifer Farm as a member of the Residential Education Team. My passion and admiration for Heifer International has been blazing since I participated in an Alternative Break Program at Heifer Ranch in my youth. Moved, amazed and more aware of the world around me - - I knew after leaving the Ranch I wanted to do everything within my power to continue to Pass on the Gift I had received. With this goal in mind, I set out on a journey to give back to Heifer, what Heifer had given to me -The gift of education! In the past year, I have worked with people from every walk of life (abilities, socioeconomic status, age, and

In a business world, nowadays it isn’t just about whom you know, or what you know, experience is almost as valuable as education. It appears that almost all credibility comes from how long one has been in a particular field. Consider this, would you rather see a heart surgeon who just finished his or her residency, or a surgeon who has been practicing for many years? Almost always, experience is more enticing. This resulting in this epidemic that has college students and graduates hungry for experience, even willing to work for free, or in other words – internship. A compelling article published in a 2006 New York Times magazine, - “TAKE THIS INTERNSHIP AND SHOVE IT”, Anya Kamenetz uses ethos, pathos, and logos to lay out a thorough review of whether or not unpaid vs. paid internships are beneficial, not only for pre-graduate college students, but also for the economy as a whole.