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Tuesday, June 18, 2019
TIME	Salon A	Salon B	Salon C	Riverview	Arkansas Ballroom	Harris Brake Lecture Hall	Conway Lecture Hall	White Oak Lecture Hall
6:30 AM - 11:30 PM	Exhibit Setup [Balcony]
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM	NAITCO Breakfast [Arkansas Ballroom]
7:00 AM - 3:30 PM	Pre-Conference Tour - Crater of Diamonds State Park [Offsite]
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM	NAITCO Meeting [Arkansas Ballroom]
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	NAITCO Lunch [Arkansas Ballroom]
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Registration [Balcony]
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM	State Contact Dinner (By Invitation Only) [River Market Pavilion]
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
TIME	Salon A	Salon B	Salon C	Riverview	Arkansas Ballroom	Harris Brake Lecture Hall	Conway Lecture Hall	White Oak Lecture Hall
6:00 AM - 5:45 PM	Registration [Balcony]
6:30 AM - 7:20 AM	Traveling Workshop Breakfast [Wally Allen Ballroom]
7:30 AM - 11:30 AM	Traveling Workshops [Offsite]
11:30 AM - 9:00 PM	Exhibits Open [Balcony]
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM	'Opening Luncheon: Everything is Connected: Prosperity, Food, and Biodiversity' Dr. Marty Matlock [Wally Allen Ballroom]
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM	Passing
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM	Use Agriculture to "Get Environmentally Motivated" (GEM) Debbie Ruff Suzi Myers	Agriculture STEM Careers and Lessons that Engage Student Learning Lorilyn Owen	Go Out On a Limb - Forestry Education Rob Beadel	From Apples to Zucchini: Creating a Context for Teaching STEM in the Garden Karen Garland	Hands-On STEM Integration: An Egg-Cellent Engineering/Math Challenge Farah L. Vallera	Connecting the Dots Andy Klatt	Beyond Picture Books Kevin Daugherty	Ag Challenge Break Out! Jill Vigesaa Virginia Deitz Lindsey Leker
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM	Coffee Break [Balcony]
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM	Rehearsal Session 1 - White Reinhardt Award Winners and State Teachers of the Year [Wally Allen Ballroom]
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM	High-Tech Farming Lynn Wallin	Classroom Aquaponics Mike Bechtel Eric Berns Zack Pogozrelski	Three Dimensional Learning in Action Earth and Human Activity Karen Parrino	Purple Plow: Agricultural STEM challenges for your classroom! Sierra Comstock	Rock Your Classroom with Plant Fun! Shelley Mitchell	Looking Under the Label Andrea Gardner	Journey 2050: Educational Game-Play to Teach World Food Sustainability Tessa Matuszak Lisa Gaskalla	Got Heifer? How You and Agriculture Can Change the World Cindy Sellers Roach Liz Ellis
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Coffee Break [Balcony]
4:30 PM - 5:45 PM	Rehearsal Session 2 - National Excellence in Teaching About Agriculture Award Winners [Wally Allen Ballroom]
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM	Transportation and Food Miles Lynn Wallin	Timeline Reboot - Growing a Nation: The Story of American Agriculture Debra Spielmaker	A "Taste" of Geography! Kathy DeFoor	Soybeans have a touch of 'classroom' Diedre Young	New MacDonald has a Drone: Technology & Perceptions in Accurate Ag Books Lisl Detlefsen	Stepping Up Science Instruction Using Phenomena Andrea Gardner	Using 3D Printers in Agriculture Design Brandy Jones	Practical Indoor Gardening Techniques Melissa Sikes
5:45 PM - 7:00 PM	Reception // Temple Grandin Book Signing [Balcony]
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM	'Opening Dinner Keynote Speaker: Temple Grandin' Temple Grandin [Wally Allen Ballroom]
Thursday, June 20, 2019
TIME	Salon A	Salon B	Salon C	Riverview	Arkansas Ballroom	Harris Brake Lecture Hall	Conway Lecture Hall	White Oak Lecture Hall
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	Teacher Awards Breakfast - White Reinhardt Award Winners and CHS Scholarship Recipients [Wally Allen Ballroom]
7:00 AM - 5:45 PM	Registration [Balcony]
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM	Passing
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Full STEAM Ahead with Ag! Lynn Black Tammy Maxey	Two Truths and a Lie Michelle Blodgett Amelia Miller	Melons, Mitosis, and Meiosis Bekka Israelsen	Think Outside the Box Audrey Harmon Melody Aufill Cheri Long	Where Should Development Go? Jessica Jansen	Omnivore's Dilemma Will Fett	Oh The Places You Can Go! Chris Fleming Kristy Chastine	Cultivating New Ideas with Nutrients for Life Melissa Bigge
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Rehearsal Session 3 - Agriculture Advocate Award Winner [Wally Allen Ballroom]
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM	Coffee Break [Balcony]
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Biotech in Agriculture Tammy Will Andi Harding	Math in Agriculture: A Perfect Fit Christopher Szkutak	Agricultural Counting: How USDA establishes official crop and livestock numbers for the U.S. Eugene Young	In Whom Do We Trust? Denise Stewardson	Engaging lessons with agricultural labels for grades 3-5 Browning Neddeau Shelley Mitchell Jennifer Zuercher	All Things Poultry Laura Vollmer	The Sky's the Limit: The Future of Precision Agriculture Melanie Gaebe	Beefing Up Math Liz Baskins Judy Culbertson
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM	Coffee Break [Balcony]
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Agriculture: It's in Your DNA. Ronda Hamm	All Things Photosynthesis Tracee Schiebel Becky Sponholtz	Fabulous Farms: Bringing Agriculture Into The Primary Classroom Nancy Smith	Water Connects Us All: Agriculture and the Environment Barb Ehlers Cathryn Carney	GMOs: From Classroom to the Media a Hot Topic Valerie Bayes	Graphic Novels, Comics, and Cartoons Brad Banning	Bringing Agriculture to Life with Precision Technology Darcie Gallagher	Pig-Headed and Hog Wild Johnnie Keel
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM	Passing
12:30 PM - 2:15 PM	National Excellence in Teaching about Agriculture Awards Luncheon [Wally Allen Ballroom]
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM	Passing
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM	Gourmet Gardens Liz Baskins Judy Culbertson Mindy DeRohan	Grow to Learn Tracee Schiebel Becky Sponholtz	Aeroponics in Your Classroom Andrea Gardner Alisha Hill	FOOD EVOLUTION: Using Film to Explore Modern Agriculture's Environmental Solutions Kimberly Birbrower Scott Kenedy Denise Stewardson	Pesticides: The Chemistry Involved in Agriculture Valerie Bayes	Reading, Writing and Agriculture, a Powerful Partnership Kevin Daugherty Tammy Potts	Farm to Car - How We're Driving Change Rachel Hogan Angela Leahey	Hog Wild Learning about Pigs & Pork Cindy Hall
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM	Exhibit Reception [Balcony]
4:15 PM - 4:35 PM	Festivals and Introduction Activities; Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices Chrissy Rhodes	Think About It! Debra Spielmaker	I Have... Who Has...? Ag Edition Debra Wood	Eat a Rainbow and Graph Your Garden: Using School Gardens & Nutrition to Support Visual &Tactile Learners Jodi Richmond	Ag=Abilities Judi Whitson	Farm to Classroom Pen Pal Programs: Fence Rows to Prose. Rachel Myers Shari Davis	Family Agriculture Night Stacy McQueen	Have a Hoot with Kahoot! Jill Vigesaa Virginia Deitz
4:35 PM - 4:45 PM	Passing
4:45 PM - 5:05 PM	Festivals and Introduction Activities; Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices Chrissy Rhodes	Think About It! Debra Spielmaker	I Have... Who Has...? Ag Edition Debra Wood	Eat a Rainbow and Graph Your Garden: Using School Gardens & Nutrition to Support Visual &Tactile Learners Jodi Richmond	Ag=Abilities Judi Whitson	Farm to Classroom Pen Pal Programs: Fence Rows to Prose. Rachel Myers Shari Davis	Family Agriculture Night Stacy McQueen	Have a Hoot with Kahoot! Jill Vigesaa Virginia Deitz
5:05 PM - 5:15 PM	Passing
5:15 PM - 5:35 PM	Festivals and Introduction Activities; Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices Chrissy Rhodes	Think About It! Debra Spielmaker	I Have... Who Has...? Ag Edition Debra Wood	Eat a Rainbow and Graph Your Garden: Using School Gardens & Nutrition to Support Visual &Tactile Learners Jodi Richmond	Ag=Abilities Judi Whitson	Farm to Classroom Pen Pal Programs: Fence Rows to Prose. Rachel Myers Shari Davis	Family Agriculture Night Stacy McQueen	Have a Hoot with Kahoot! Jill Vigesaa Virginia Deitz
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM	Special Free Movie Screening - 'Food Evolution' [Conway Lecture Hall]
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM	Dinner on Your Own [Offsite]
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM	Special Free Movie Screening - 'Before the Plate' [Conway Lecture Hall]
Friday, June 21, 2019
TIME	Salon A	Salon B	Salon C	Riverview	Arkansas Ballroom	Harris Brake Lecture Hall	Conway Lecture Hall	White Oak Lecture Hall
7:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Registration [Balcony]
7:15 AM - 8:30 AM	Closing Breakfast - Agriculture Advocate Winner [Wally Allen Ballroom]
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Passing
9:00 AM - 9:20 AM	How's the Water (Testing)? Linda Hardee	Hold My Water and Watch This! Andy Guffey Matt Jackson	Math in the Garden Mary Beth Bennett	Crop Variety Selection for Planting Purposes Amy Dawson Van Dawson	Exploring Hydroponics! Veronique Krohn Denise Krohn	Navigating the National Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix Debra Spielmaker NCAL Team	Mud, mud, glorious mud but what about sand, silt and clay? Dr. Craig Wilson	P51 Glow Labs: Investigate DNA and Chlorophyll through Flourescence Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra
9:20 AM - 9:30 AM	Mini Workshops
	Salon A	Salon B	Salon C	Riverview	Arkansas Ballroom	Harris Brake Lecture Hall	Conway Lecture Hall	White Oak Lecture Hall
Passing
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM	How's the Water (Testing)? Linda Hardee	Hold My Water and Watch This! Andy Guffey Matt Jackson	Math in the Garden Mary Beth Bennett	Crop Variety Selection for Planting Purposes Amy Dawson Van Dawson	Exploring Hydroponics! Veronique Krohn Denise Krohn	Navigating the National Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix Debra Spielmaker NCAL Team	Mud, mud, glorious mud but what about sand, silt and clay? Dr. Craig Wilson	P51 Glow Labs: Investigate DNA and Chlorophyll through Flourescence Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra
9:50 AM - 10:15 AM	Coffee Break [Balcony]
10:15 AM - 10:35 AM	How's the Water (Testing)? Linda Hardee	Hold My Water and Watch This! Andy Guffey Matt Jackson	Math in the Garden Mary Beth Bennett	Crop Variety Selection for Planting Purposes Amy Dawson Van Dawson	Exploring Hydroponics! Veronique Krohn Denise Krohn	Navigating the National Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix Debra Spielmaker NCAL Team	Mud, mud, glorious mud but what about sand, silt and clay? Dr. Craig Wilson	P51 Glow Labs: Investigate DNA and Chlorophyll through Flourescence Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Staff/Committee Debrief [Hotel Lobby]