Education and Extension Section
Our Communities
Advancing Agronomy via PublicPrivate Collaboration
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Community goals include creating common messages promoting agronomy, recruitment and education collaborations, identifying new skills and expertise needs, collaborative outreach efforts, and sharing agronomic data for public education and communication.
Extension Education
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The Extension Education Community provides an opportunity for Extension Agronomists to meet, exchange and share information, plan, and coordinate programs and services. At the annual ASA meeting, our community sponsors a symposium(s), oral and poster sessions, a poster contest, and the Extension Education Community Awards Program.
K-16 Education and Outreach
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This community would like to increase awareness of soils, crops and agronomy; and how they can be used in teaching STEM concepts in high school as well as biology, chemistry, physics and earth science in K-8. We also focus on developing, presenting, and sharing teaching methods across K-16 and promoting recruitment and retention of undergraduate students.
Learning and Communication Technologies in Education/Extension
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This community is designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas, techniques, and usage of social media among educators and extension personnel. Community members are involved in a wide range of disciplines, but share a common interest in utilizing new and emerging social media as a tool for educating traditional and non-traditional students in a wide variety of settings.