The Science of Sourdough Workshop
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Roads, Rivers & Rails: Summer Ag Institute 2025
Summer Ag Institute 2025Ride along with us this summer and learn about fun transportation activities, just in time to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the Mother Road!
See details and sign up for this year’s summer workshop below! Questions? Contact Carrie Vogel, McLean County Ag Literacy Coordinator at aitctablet@gmail.com.
Summer AITC Registration
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Daily Ag Lesson Ideas
For teachers facing unique challenges this spring, Illinois Ag in the Classroom will be providing a daily update with a video, lessons and activities showcasing an agriculture topic starting March 17!
Visit the Beyond the Barn Door blog or follow Illinois Ag in the Classroom’s Facebook page for updates.
LeRoy Teacher wins State Award
Katie Buckley, LeRoy Junior High School Science, Technology,Engineering and Math Educator,was named the 2018 Illinois Ag in the Classroom Teacher of the Year Runner-Up.
She was recognized for her achievements at the Illinois Farm Bureau Annual Meeting in Chicago Dec. 1.
For the past two years, students in Buckley’s STEM Exploratory Class have completed food and farming based learning projects called Purple Plow Challenges.
Her class won the nationwide challenge in 2017 and again in 2018. Buckley is also an alum of the American Farm Bureau STEM on the Farm Program, which gave her the opportunity to travel to Oregon for hands-on and on-farm learning about beef cattle production.
Buckley is a past winner of the McLean County Maitland Agricultural Awareness and McLean County Farm Bureau Ag Science grants.
You can follow Buckley and her students on Twitter @LeRoySTEM to see what they’re learning.
As the Runner Up, Buckley will be Illinois Farm Bureau’s nominee for the American Farm Bureau White-Reinhardt Scholarship.