Tifton Campus

Ag Day program receives local support

Toni Holder, co-manager of Wal-Mart in Tifton, Ga., presented Benjie Baldree, a UGA Tifton Campus research technician, a check for $250 on May 21. The money will go to support the efforts the Agricultural & Environmental Awareness Day program on the campus.

Baldree started the program on the campus in April 2001 with only a handful of volunteers, presenters and students. More than 1,000 third-graders from six local counties attended the event last month, including a record 54 different learning stations taught by more than 100 presenters. The students will return to the campus in October as fourth-graders to help harvest the crops many of them helped plant.

"Our main mission is to educate these students on where their food comes from and what it takes to make it. More and more, many of them just don’t  know how food gets to the grocery store shelves," Baldree said.

Along with teaching agriculture and environmental lessons, presentations are designed to provide students with knowledge and skills needed for third- and fourth-grade proficiency in science and math topics corresponding to the Georgia Performance Standards.

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