Governor's School Of Ag
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them how things are really done in
agriculture.
Ragan said the curriculum
developed for the group showed
that agriculture is no longer just a
tractor and a plow. “It was not just
traditional agriculture.”
Students who attended the first
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diverse mixture of some of the
brightest students in the Com
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be environmental engineers. They
were very self-directed learners.”
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school turned out to be meeting
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became amazingly close.” Risser
notes that he didn’t know anybody
else who was attending, but
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Ragan added, “They had a ball,
and became a cohesive, tight knit,
social group. They were very
expressive of their appreciation
for the course.”
Areas of study varied from
robotics, wildlife management,
silviculture, biotechnology and Full scholarships are provided to
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Department of Education, and can lab and computer fees,
be acquired from high school Deadline for applications is
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