The garage gets a new roof

The Buildings and Grounds Committee did their teaching project on applying a steel roof over existing shingles today. The process was very straight forward and each committee took their turn learning and implementing the steps. The steel needed to be handed to the people on the roof, set in place, and finally screwed down. 

With everyone helping the project took a quick three hours with only a few last minute details left to finish up on Thursday.

Hope, Jordan, and Barry lift steel up to the finance ladies.

Ben measures out screw placement while Anthony & Heidi line up the next piece of steel.

Matt puts screws in to hold the steel in place.

The nearly finished product!

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100th Anniversary Celebration of Agricultural Education

With around 275 people attending the tailgate, we as a class feel the celebration was a huge success!  The food was great, the decorations were beautiful and the speakers did a fantastic job promoting and explaining the success of AgEd and Ag 450 farm!

Meet the Public Relations Team

Once again each semsester starts with 7 new committee teams with new ideas and agendas. This semester's Public Relations committee is busting at the seams with energy, talented, and cute smiles. :) From planning this year's 100th year of Ag Education Celebration Tailgate to ordering T-shirts, designing posters to blogging, each member has learned to contribute so much!

From Left to Right-Mackenzie Dierks, Heidi Schaben, Shelby Johnson, Rachel Enfield, Laura Underwood, Lily Randleman

Committee goals for this semester are to update picutures and sort existing, update social medias such as Twitter, Facebook, Blog and Snapfish, establish email accounts for other committees, and create a farm resume. The girls all come from different backgrounds and didn't know each other before this class, but have bonded together not only as a team, but as sisters. With everything they have to other, they should be able to accomplish their goals easily!

Ag Orientation Tours

First farm tour of the semester! On Tuesday Dr. Retallick's AgEds 110 orientation course came to the farm. They had the chance to meet the different farm committees and learn a little about what we do out here on the Ag450 Farm. They also had a chance to walk around and see the different facilities.

The tour included a look at the shops and a short introduction by the farm's Graduate Assistant Dustin.

Compost shed is moving along!

Construction on the compost shed us moving along.  The building and grounds committee got the headers up and will continue working on it through out the fall.

LETS GO CLONES!!!!!!!!!!

The first official Iowa State football team was created in 1894 and beat the University of Iowa that same year 16-8. GO CLONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fall 2011 Ag. 450 Farm Class

It's kickoff time at the 450 Farm! Fall committees have been assigned and are already hard at work!