1. SAE Project Plan Guidelines

2. How to write/set up your plan
The following slides include guidelines on how to properly create your SAE Project Plan
Find the category that best fits your SAE Plan and complete the questions in your AET Experience Tracker.
Make sure to include which of the 7 categories it fits in as well and map it!
How to write/set up your plan

3. 7 SAE Categories Animal Systems Business Systems
Environmental Service Systems
Food Products/Processing Systems
Natural Resources Systems
Plant Systems
Power, Structural & Technical Systems
7 SAE Categories

5. SAE PLAN DUE DATE B Day – Monday, Nov. 23rd
A Day – Tuesday, November 24th
Must be printed! PDF format

6. Research SAE

7. Research SAE Step 1: Develop your Research Plan
Step 2: Needed Resources to complete Project
Step 3: Planned Reporting
Step 4: Actually doing your SAE Project
Research SAE

8. Research SAE: Step1 You have goals to achieve, WRITE THEM DOWN!!
1. what is your research question?
2. Why is this area of interest to you and how does it relate to your agriculture class?
3. What has been previously done in this area?
Background info; which all needs to be written down in an organizational manner to allow you to refer back to it.
Research SAE: Step1

9. Research SAE: Step2 DOCUMENTATION!!!!
1. what is your schedule of time or plan?
DON’T OVERLOAD YOURSELF AND FAIL BECAUSE YOU FAILED TO PLAN
2. who will supervise you? What is their schedule?
include their contact information in plan.
Are there any financial resources that apply?
Research SAE: Step2
BEFORE YOU PUT YOUR PLAN INTO ACTION, PLAN FOR WHAT YOU NEED!!!!

10. Research SAE: Step3 Planned Reporting…..AET.COM!! Journal entries
2 per week minimum
Pictures
at least 1 per month of you actually working on project
Financials
Experiences
Final Project………
Research SAE: Step3

11. Research SAE: Step4 Doing your SAE Project
Document your efforts in planning
Researching things, driving to and from places is still YOUR TIME! Don’t sell yourself short!!
Using your plan, analyze your results/project and DOCUMENT your time
Research SAE: Step4

12. Outlines for tabs Description Time Investment for…
Interest/question you want answered
Background information you intend to look up
Research methodology
Time Investment for…
Creating experiment outline
Start and End date
Collecting information
Conducting experiment
Writing out report
Who will be supervising along with their schedule
Learning Outcomes (will change after you complete experiment)
How it relates to classes, FFA and or career choices
What you plan to learn/gain in record keeping process
How this SAE relates to your future plans or other SAE projects
Outlines for tabs

13. Placement SAE

14. Placement SAE: General Overview
2 types
Paid and non paid ie-work experience
Researching things, driving to and from places is still YOUR TIME! Don’t sell yourself short!!
Using your plan, analyze your results/project and DOCUMENT your time
Mostly about your experiences in a job type setting
Career opportunity for you to explore based on your INTERESTS!!!
Placement SAE: General Overview

15. Placement SAE: Step 1 1. what is the hiring process?
What do you have to do to get the job/internship? Application, calls, previous experience, etc?
2. Why this area of interest? How does it relate to your AG course?
Don’t choose something to “just do it” Make it relatable and personable
If you try hard enough, you can make anything relate to agriculture.
Pay or non-pay?
Placement SAE: Step 1

16. Placement SAE: Step 2 Resources 1. What is your work schedule?
Time is a resource; don’t think you can do it and then flake when others are counting on you!
2. Who is your planned supervision?
3. What job duties/skills are you hoping to gain in this project
If you already know what you will be learning, make an pacing guide for yourself for what you want to learn each month
Placement SAE: Step 2

17. Placement SAE: Step 3 Learning Objectives What you plan to learn..
What skills can you gain..
Once completed, what DID you learn from the experience
Include the GOOD and BAD
Compare to 1st section on what you PLANNED to learn and what you ACTUALLY learned
Placement SAE: Step 3

18. Placement SAE: Step 4 Documentation Record time planning project
Time spent looking for placement SAE
Time in actual project and skills learned
If paid Placement, record pay
Reflect back on experience and update plan
Placement SAE: Step 4

19. Outlines for tabs for Placement SAE
Description (Abstract version)
Name of Employer
Dates of Employment
Hiring Process
Pay or non-pay; if so, how much/often
Classes you have taken in area to help
Time Investment for…
Dates and times you plan to work
How many hours you intend to get
Estimate this based on your availability
Who will be supervising along with their schedule
Learning Outcomes (will change after you complete experiment)
How it relates to classes, FFA and or career choices
What you plan to learn/gain in record keeping process
How this SAE relates to your future plans or other SAE projects
Breakdown of skills to learn and when
Outlines for tabs for Placement SAE

20. Entrepreneurship

21. Entrepreneurship overview
You invest TIME & MONEY
Spend money to make money
You assume all risk and reward associated with project
Sales – Expenses = Profit
You might not always make a profit
Many different factors
Entrepreneurship overview

22. Entrepreneurship Step 1
Ultimately, it is your business plan
1. What is your project area and when do you plan to start and end it?
2. Why this area of interest?
3. Include general information on your SAE project for Business Plan
Basic money, area, supervision etc.
Entrepreneurship Step 1

23. Entrepreneurship Step 2
Resources
Talk about FINANCIAL INVESTMENT
1. Planned time  What are YOUR due dates?
2. Who is supervising?
3. Planned/gathering budget
Estimated sales/expenses and assets utilized
4. Planned sources of money
Where is it going to come from?
Planning for the budget
Entrepreneurship Step 2
**Planning for your resources focuses A LOT on MONEY**

24. Entrepreneurship Step 3
Plan and Reflect- Learning Outcomes
1. What skills/objectives will you learn from this experience?
2. How does it relate to your future career?
Entrepreneurship Step 3

25. Entrepreneurship Step 4
Document Experience
AET Journal!!!!
Record planning time from steps 1-3
Record time and money in record book via AET
Reflect back on project how you could have done things differently, more efficient, etc.
Entrepreneurship Step 4

26. Accounting in your Entrepreneurship SAE
YOU are investing MONEY
Expenses to FUND project
Assets to SUPPORT project
Things you use to help the business grow and make more money
Sales to CREATE revenue
Accounting in your Entrepreneurship SAE

27. Expenses Depends a lot on type of project $ can be spent 2 ways
BUYING the project
Show goat to resell after showing, T-shirts, etc.
Some things are used in the project to INCREASE VALUE or MAINTAIN the project
Vaccines, medications, feed, dewormer, etc.
Expenses

28. Assets High value item Used in a business to develop revenue
Lawnmower, dental cleaning machine
Has a useful life that exceeds more than 1 year
Bucks for breeding, trailer, large animal clippers, milking stand, cage for small animals, etc.
Assets

29. Depreciation of Assets
Buying assets is NOT an expense but rather a business ASSET
Without it, you probably won’t make much money
Assets depreciate over time
Depreciation IS an expense
Buying a car, it looses its value every year
Depreciation of Assets

30. Depreciation of Assets cont’
Depreciation is a % of the assets ORIGINAL COST
Depreciation of Assets cont’

31. Depreciation Example Purchase cost of trailer: $3,000
Salvage (sell after 5 yrs): $2,000
Depreciation = $1,000
5 years of using the trailer divided by $1,000 =$200
Which means the depreciation rate of the trailer each year is 20%
Depreciation Example

32. Sales Relates to the BUSINESS Project and GOAL
Can relate to use of Assets
Represents our ability to capture PROFIT in the project
Sales

33. Sales cont’ Non-Cash Accounting
Expenses & Income where cash is NOT involved
Exchanging labor for expenses
Students grooming dogs to pay for feed & bedding for animals
Transferring items between projects
Clippers for both dog and goat grooming
Selling your products to your family to be used at home
Goat milk soap, eggs, etc.
Sales cont’

34. Outlines for tabs for Entrepreneurship SAE
Description (might want to do this last; think of an abstract)
General overview of what your business/plan is about
Name of project
MAKE IT CREATIVE!!!!!
Your interest in this area of Agriculture
Beginning and End Date
Classes, teams, or lessons you take to assist you with plan
Learning goals
Financial outcome you hope to achieve
Outlines for tabs for Entrepreneurship SAE

35. Outlines for tabs for Entrepreneurship SAE
Time Investment
Planning time
Time to manage/care for project/business
Show or presentation time at competition/events
Explain how you plan to BALNACE your projects and other commitments
Who is supervising?
Include their schedule as it relates to your project
Outlines for tabs for Entrepreneurship SAE

36. Outlines for tabs for Entrepreneurship SAE
Financial Investment
Estimated Budget
Cost to purchase business/project and supplies
possible expenses that might occur
Vet bills, broken machinery
Source of funds
Estimated income
Non-Cash Benefits
Direct expenses (feed, supplies, etc)
Non-Cash Arrangements
What is being provided
How you determine value (look it up)
Who provided them
What you will do in return for items
Outlines for tabs for Entrepreneurship SAE

37. Outlines for tabs for Entrepreneurship SAE
Capital Investment
Describe any capital items YOU OWN!!!
If borrowing, explain the following:
What is provided
Who provided
What will provided in exchange/return
How value is determined
Outlines for tabs for Entrepreneurship SAE

38. Outlines for tabs for Entrepreneurship SAE
Learning Outcomes (this section will change once you have completed your project from what you HOPE to what you DID learn)
Leaning objectives-what you plan to learn
Hopeful Financial Outcomes
How learning objectives relate to:
Class
FFA Activities
Possible Career choices/plans
Possible future projects
Financial/Production outcomes you hope to achieve
Outlines for tabs for Entrepreneurship SAE