What in the World is SAE ?

What is a SAE? A SAE program is a planned practical agricultural activity which supports skill and competency development, career success and application of specific agricultural and academic skills a student has learned through classroom instruction in agricultural education.

Why should I have an SAE? Develop job skills Earn $$ Win FFA Awards Develop skills to start your own business Develop skills and knowledge that are helpful in college Learn about careers Keep accurate records Improve decision-making skills

Types of SAE

Types of SAE (Supervised Agricultural Experience) Entrepreneurship –planning, implementing, operating and assuming financial risks in an agricultural business or farming activity. –Examples: raising hogs, chickens, or plants to sell, or operating a farm supply store.

Types of SAE Research –planning and conducting an agricultural experiment using the scientific process or scientific method such as comparing different fertilizer rates on plants.

Types of SAE Placement –Teachers aid in placing students into jobs outside the regular classroom hours and may be paid or unpaid work such as working at a farm supply store, at a greenhouse or for a landscape company.

Types of SAE Exploratory –helps students learn about agriculture and become aware of possible agricultural careers through short times spent observing, shadowing or helping such as attending a career day, interviewing a veterinarian or assisting a horse owner.

Major Project Areas Animal Systems Agribusiness Systems Environmental Service Systems Food Products & Processing Natural Resource Systems Plant Systems Power, Structural, & Technical Systems Other

Record Keeping Keeping a journal of your activities Record when –You do something new –Spend money –Spend time

Types of Entries Entrepreneurship -type of enterprise, amount bought or sold, expenses, income, efficiency factors, etc. Research -review of literature, hypothesis, data log, findings, recommendations, etc. Placement -training agreement signed by student, teacher, employer and parent or guardian stating which each will do, record of work, hours and income. Exploratory -date, activity, observation and comments, hours.

Your SAE Project Deadlines AssignmentPoint ValueDue Date AET Profile Complete (100%)10 PointsWednesday, Sept. 17 Online Record Check #1 (min. 5 hrs) 25 Points Friday, Oct. 24 (at 3:00pm) Online Record Check #2 (min. 10 hrs) 25 Points Friday, Dec. 5 (at 3:00pm) Semester #1 – SAE Review50 PointsFriday, Dec. 12 Online Record Check #3 (min. 15 hrs) 25 Points Friday, Feb. 27 (at 3:00pm) Online Record Check #4 (min. 20 hrs) 25 Points Friday, April 24 (at 3:00pm) Final SAE Presentation100 PointsMon. April 27 – Wed. April 29

Meet The AET! Keeping up with your SAE project online

One more acronym to know The AET –Agriculture Experience Tracker Created by Texas A&M to help Ag.Ed. students keep up with their SAE projects by developing an online data base

Cool features Access your info anywhere Keeps up with records each year Pictures, videos, etc. Proficiency award applications Scholarship applications FFA Degree applications

Let’s get started! Go to: –You may want to bookmark this site On the left side of the screen, you will see “Please Sign In” Click on yellow “Student” button

Logging In To log in, you will first need to enter our chapter number – AZ0102***MEMORIZE THIS*** Your Username will be the first letter of your first name and then your last name Ex. ABlaker For now, your password would be the same as your username

After logging in…

Update your profile

Account Information Please fill the information out as best to your knowledge You may change your Account Information setting Please do not change password to something you cannot remember!

Setting up an Experience

Adding your experience This is the area that you are doing your SAE in Select Experience Category from the drop down box (Animal Systems= Animals, Plant Systems= Gardening) You may have the option to select Subcategory SAE Type (Entrepreneurship, Placement, Exploratory)

Adding your experience Name: Brief description of your SAE Description: If you would like to give more details about your SAE you may do so here IMPORTANT! Leave the rest of the boxes as they are! Click Save

Example My Experience I need to set up is for working in Christmas Trees. This is how it would look…

Notes You would need to create a separate experience for each SAE “project” you might have For example: You may be mowing hay and also raising beef cattle. You would need to have a Plant Systems Grain Crops experience for the hay and an Animal Systems Beef experience

Notes At this point, you have not entered any hours You MUST first have your experience set up before entering in hours. After setting up your experiences, you can put separate hours in for each day you work in that experience.

Entering in hours

Entering in Hours Be sure to select the correct date that you are entering hours for Activity*: This is the specific thing that you did in your experience Type: This is your experience(s) that you created earlier Description: What all you actually did and important notes (weather) Hours spent that day in activity

*A Note about “Activity” There are several things you can do when working in Christmas Trees or anything in Agriculture. We created the Experience of “Christmas Trees” which is the broad category of our SAE. Activity is where I would put what I specifically did in Christmas Trees that particular day I am logging

Entering in Hours After entering in your hours and info, click “Save” or if you would like to enter in more hours, click “Save/Enter Another”

Reviewing Entries To View your entries, go back to the “Journal” Section and Select “Review Your Journal Entries” This will show your online “Log Book”