1. Meet The AET! Keeping up with your SAE project online

2. 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

3. Cool features Access your info anywhere Keeps up with records each year Pictures, videos, etc. Proficiency award applications The American Degree application

4. Let’s get started! Go to: www.theaet.com –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

7. Logging In To log in, you will first need to enter our chapter number – NC0158***MEMORIZE THIS*** Your Username will be the first letter of your first name and then your last name Ex. MLong For now, your password would be the same as your username

9. After logging in…

10. Update your profile

11. 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!

12. Setting up an Experience

16. 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)

17. 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

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

20. 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

21. 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.

22. Entering in hours

25. 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

26. *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

28. 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”

29. 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”