DETAILED SCHEDULE - Subject to Change

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Tuesday, June 20, 2017
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8:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Pre-Conference Tour [Independence, MO]				NAITCO Meeting [Chicago AB]
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
TIME
4:00 PM - 9:00 PM	Registration Open [Terrace]
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
TIME	Chicago A	Chicago B	Chicago C	Empire A	Chouteau A	Chouteau B	Van Horn	Benton AB	Gillham Hall
6:00 AM - 7:00 AM	Traveling Workshop Breakfast [Gillham Hall ]
6:00 AM - 9:00 PM	Registration Open [Terrace]
7:00 AM - 11:30 AM	Traveling Workshops [Off-Site]			Exhibit Set-Up [Terrace]			Silent Auction Set-Up [San Francisco]
11:30 AM - 9:00 PM	Silent Auction Open [San Francisco]				Exhibits open [Terrace]
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Opening Luncheon [Ballroom Atlanta-New York]
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM	Workshop Session 1
	Chicago A	Chicago B	Chicago C	Empire A	Chouteau A	Chouteau B	Van Horn	Benton AB	Gillham Hall
	GMOs: A Hot Topic in the Media and Classroom: Monsanto Discussion and Presentation Valerie Bayes	Apples, and Carrots, and Honey - OH MY! Sue Knott	The Facts of Life: More than just Birds and Bees Amelia Miller Lyndsay Grasman	Happy Orchard: Tools You Can Use to Teach About Pollinators Deb Weitzenkamp Connie Reimers-Hild	Soil Matters! Fun With Plant Nutrients! DeAnn Tenhunfeld	FarmChat® - Virtural Fieldtrips and more Cindy Hall Gretchen Voga	STEAM up the Classroom with Agriculture Sarah Glenn	Discovering Ag in YOUR State! Debra Wood	Integrating Ag Literacy and Technology with Administrative Support Eric Brooks
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM	Coffee Break [Foyers]
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM	Workshop Session 2
	Chicago A	Chicago B	Chicago C	Empire A	Chouteau A	Chouteau B	Van Horn	Benton AB	Gillham Hall
	Discover Ag Careers Kalena Bruce	Sleep Tight Farm Leah Pratt	Some Assembly Required: History, Science and Soybeans Amelia Miller Kevin Daugherty	What Kids Want to Know About Agriculture: Reevaluating the Farm Field Day Model Paige Wray Debra Spielmaker	Soil Matters! Fun With Plant Nutrients! DeAnn Tenhunfeld	FarmChat® - Virtural Fieldtrips and more Cindy Hall Gretchen Voga	Let Me Show You Amazing Agriculture Websites! Pam Hosimer	Show Me Agriculture Using Books and Projects Mary Zumwalt	Going the Extra Degree Produces STEAM Jennifer Bates
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM	Reception [Terrace]
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM	Opening Dinner - Ag Advocate Award and Live Auction [Ballroom Atlanta-New York]
Thursday, June 22, 2017
TIME	Chicago A	Chicago B	Chicago C	Empire A	Chouteau A	Chouteau B	Van Horn	Benton AB	Gillham Hall
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Breakfast - White Reinhardt and CHS Awards [Ballroom Atlanta-New York]
7:30 AM - 9:00 PM	Registration Open [Terrace]
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM	Workshop Session 3
	Chicago A	Chicago B	Chicago C	Empire A	Chouteau A	Chouteau B	Van Horn	Benton AB	Gillham Hall
	Civic and Agriculture-Boards that Run Your World. Linda Chezem	Agriculture Measures Up! Lynn Black Tammy Maxey	Drone Technology Takes Flight Virginia Deitz Jill Vigesaa Lindsey Leker	Growing minds in science Debra Kearney	Agricultural Book Club - The Thing About Luck Maren Reid Rhodora Collins	Creating AgArt Curriculum for the Classrooms of the Future Heather Giger	Here We Grow: Gardening with K-5 Students Denise Stewardson	Gardening From my Head To-ma-toes Lani Walters Stephanie Greteman	A Baker's Dozen...Make 'n Takes, Books and More! Jackie Jones Laura Vollmer
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM	Coffee Break [Foyers]
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM	Workshop Session 4
	Chicago A	Chicago B	Chicago C	Empire A	Chouteau A	Chouteau B	Van Horn	Benton AB	Gillham Hall
	Journey 2050: The Power of Educational Gaming Lindsey Verhaeghe Lisa Gaskalla Debra Spielmaker	Agriculture Measures Up! Lynn Black Tammy Maxey	The Love of Cows and other Joys in Agriculture Kathleen Kendall Walker	Agriculture on the Sports Field Keri Sidle	Agricultural Book Club - The Thing About Luck Maren Reid Rhodora Collins	A Dynamic Model of Urban Ag Education in the Classroom Utilizing Hydroponics Education Orlenthea McGowan	Phenomenal Phenomena! Denise Stewardson	Phenomena...Mahna mahna: Agroecosystems Will Fett	A Baker's Dozen...Make 'n Takes, Books and More! Jackie Jones Laura Vollmer
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Luncheon - National Teacher Awards [Ballroom Atlanta-New York]				21st Food Systems and Education Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM	Silent Auction Closes [San Francisco]
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM	Workshop Session 5
	Chicago A	Chicago B	Chicago C	Empire A	Chouteau A	Chouteau B	Van Horn	Benton AB	Gillham Hall
	The Incredible Egg and Experiments Jacinta LeDonne	True Beef: PBL Brings Agriculture and Culinary Arts Together Leah Pratt	Why? BEE Cause we need them! John Seiser	AgExplorer-Find Your Future in Agriculture Ambra Tennery	Returning To Our Prairie “Roots” Suzi Myers Debbie Ruff	Animals Inside & Out: An Animal Science Program for Upper Elementary Ashley Benes Darci Pesek Rhonda Herrick	Changing Horizons: Recruiting and Retaining Ag Talent Tracey Troutman	Special Education: Where Ag Education is the Solution Kelly Holler	Art + Ag Labels = Engaging Lessons for Diverse Learners Browning Neddeau
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM	Coffee Break [Foyers]
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM	Auction Check Out [Terrace]
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM	Workshop Session 6
	Chicago A	Chicago B	Chicago C	Empire A	Chouteau A	Chouteau B	Van Horn	Benton AB	Gillham Hall
	C6 BioFarm: A Sustainability Game for Learning the About the Bio-based Economy Jill Euken Jay Staker	True Beef: PBL Brings Agriculture and Culinary Arts Together Leah Pratt	Tapping into Maple Tradition Debbi Cox Christopher Szkutak	An energetic session on Food Energy; Matter that matters; and Space, or lack thereof. Dr. Craig Wilson	Returning To Our Prairie “Roots” Suzi Myers Debbie Ruff	Food Loss and the Role Pesticides Play from Field to Market: Free Resources for the Classroom Sarah Macedo	CANCELED: Pest Management & Pesticides: A Historic Perspective Kelly Lowery Farmers are Consumers, too (telling ag's story to the non-ag consumer) Linda Olson	Fun with Plants Shelley Mitchell	You Say Tomato, I Say Tomatosphere: Space Seeds in the Classroom Sabrina DeVall
6:00 PM - 12:00 AM	Dinner On Your Own [Off-Site]
Friday, June 23, 2017
TIME	Chicago A	Chicago B	Chicago C	Empire A	Chouteau A	Chouteau B	Van Horn	Benton AB	Gillham Hall
7:00 AM - 8:45 AM	Closing Breakfast [Ballroom Atlanta-New York]
7:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Registration Open [Terrace]
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Mini-Workshop Sessions. Presentations are 25 minutes long, repeated 4 times. (Choose 4)
	Ag Notebooks in EARLY CHILDHOOD Classrooms Frances Miller	SoiLife Box Virginia Deitz Jill Vigesaa	Informational Text Bell Ringers for secondary students Kevin Daugherty		Games and Lesson about agriculture in your state! Susan Kleiboeker Meggan Hiestand	Bushels of Fun: Fruit and Veggie Games for Everyone Audrey Harmon Cheri Long Melody Aufill	Stirring up Agriculture Jo Ann Hebert Catherine Olinde	From Fact to Fiction Judy Culbertson	Christmas In June~Ag Edition Zena Lewis
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM	Exhibit Breakdown [Terrace]
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Post Conference Tour [Hamilton, MO]