Exemplary SAE Project Application Guidelines

Craft a compelling SAE project application by being concise, specific, and focused on measurable details related to your project in the Star Area. Showcase the evolution of your roles and responsibilities, detail production skills, and share challenges overcome. Incorporate how skills gained will benefit your future. Seek feedback on grammar and present a clear, compelling story of your SAE journey.

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1. General Notes for Star This application should tell the story of your SAE project (s). Be brief, to the point, while making sure you get the point across. Be specific, use numbers, dates, etc. measurable information. Don t be afraid to repeat info throughout the application. As you repeat info, add more details and show growth as you go along. SAE projects should be related to your Ag classes (remember THREE circle model), somehow.. Try to incorporate that thought in the application Look toward the future and how skills learned in your SAE projects will be able to help you in the future. The application can touch on SAE outside of the Star area, but, only briefly, FOCUS on projects in the Star Area. If you use terms specific to your project area, define the terms the first time that they are used, not everyone who reads your app will be familiar with the details of the project area. Ask an English teacher to review your grammar, etc. (ask in advance, so, they know it is coming.. Not the day before it is due!)

2. General Notes 2 Livestock projects should consider production topics in the application. Decisions that made the project more profitable. Don t focus on the showing aspect of the project, you can mention that, but, don t dwell on it. Judges what to know what production skills/knowledge you learned related to the industry that you were part of. Talk about what you did to prevent diseases/parasites, problems. If the animals were vaccinated, what were they given and why? Throughout the application you will see ? Click on those for info related to the application area where you are working.

3. 1. Briefly explain your SAE and how it related to this award area. Some questions to consider and include: 1. How/when did your SAE start? 2. How did you get interested in this area? 3. What was/were your role/responsibilities in the project? 4. How did your roles grow/change over the years? 4. For placement projects, what tasks did you do at the beginning and how did they change? 5. Who helped you get started or was instrumental in your project/mentor? 6. It s OK that they helped you, be careful using we too much, we want to know YOUR roles!

4. 2. Briefly explain how your roles, responsibilities, and/or management decisions related to this award area changed. (Potentially address management change or if research related explain the complexity of your research project) What did you do to improve the project situation? What management decisions did you make to improve the project the following year

5. 3. Briefly explain what is the single greatest challenge you faced in this award area and how did you overcome that challenge. This is a challenge related to the project. Time management is a challenge that everyone has, don t use that Maybe: you learned a new clipping technique. You had a fly issue Your rabbits wouldn t breed in the winter Profitability was an issue/cost of feed/supplies Housing for an expanding project How did YOU overcome that challenge.. What did YOU do? Someone could have helped you, but, what did YOU do? How is it working, now?

6. Briefly explain your three greatest accomplishments as it pertains to this award area. Some areas to cover include: (1) Have you participated in trainings or experiences that have impacted the success of the company, or your growth as an employee? (2) As an entrepreneur, have you increased or expanded your enterprise? (3) Has your research produced findings that support or reject your hypothesis? (4) Did a research experiment lead to a new patent or method? If you talk about show ring results, use it only once and how was that important to the overall industry or your knowledge of the industry?

7. Identify three experiences from your SAE in this award area, and explain how they will impact your future. I learned this and will be able to use it for . Even if you are not planning to do your specific SAE topic as a career, there must me something that you learned/did that you can use in the future? OR something that someone taught you?

8. Outcomes and Efficiencies An efficiency factor is related to improving your entrepreneurship SAE project. Examples could include:In year 1 (2013), your initial analysis of feed efficiency for your market steers averaged 1.2 lbs of gain per day. However in year 2 (2014), your markets steers averaged 1.9 lbs of gain per day. In year 1 (2013), your initial average sales price of show pigs was $200 per head, but by the end of the year (2013) your average price had risen to $300 per head and was the result improved placings of previously sold offspring. The key is to develop quantifiable measures that clearly define improvement or value of the change. NOTE: for livestock projects, if you are using the livestock managers, some of the efficiencies are calculated for you in the reports tab! In the achievement do NOT use 100% achieved, you always have room to grow. Look on line, there are samples of applications that you can refer to. Do NOT copy any info word for word and use it, it might get flagged down the road.

9. Skills, Competencies and Knowledge In your own words, how did this skill area specifically relate to your SAE project? Quantifiable values help support your growth, so add related details to each skill area and your SAE(s). Some areas to cover include: (1) AFNR Skill Area of Nutrition = My market animal project averaged 2.1 pounds of gain per pound of feed and this causes my project to have improved gains, which results in lower cost per lbs of gain and improved profits. (2) AFNR Skill of Record Keeping = In using my record system and tracking hours, I was able to learn that each yard I mowed took 2 hrs, which results in a $15.50 per hour rate of net income. This enabled me to better manage my time and bid new projects that could increase my businesses sales. (3) AFNR Skill Area of Food Processing and Trends = In custom processing of deer and customer surveys, you learn that customers desire sausage over steak products 2 to 1. This allowed me to better understand customer needs and offer pre-processed products for sale and grow my business.

10. Resume Use LISTS! Activities must be dated BEFORE the cut off date of the application. For State Star (Oct 1)Except Ag Courses, they can continue to the end of the school year. Do not write lengthy paragraphs, Use LISTS!! Focus on SAE related skills and list those first! Skills: list SAE related skills first: LIST! Brief! References like this: Jane Doe, (either their professional job or how you know them: family friend and they MUST be over 18 not a relative) Contact info: can be an email or a phone number, they will not contacted or called about their car warranty! Number can be fake, just an fyi) Ag teacher name is on application, not necessary. Use 3 people with different jobs/areas that they know you. Livestock projects: Breeder, Vet, Judge, a fellow exhibitor, etc.

11. Personal Narrative Details of your personal life that will be helpful in explaining/understanding your role in the project. Keep it to one page.

12. Photos Purpose: to enhance the information that you have said in the application. If you have said that you can give shots, show that. If you have analyzed your feed, show that. If you can dress appropriately when handling food If you have met with/talked to someone about something get a photo. Make sure you are dressed appropriately in the pictures FFA t-shirts are great! Boots when working with livestock. Mechanics pictures PPE is a MUST! Be aware of the background in the picture! Showing picture (1) is OK, but, should focus on the skills that you have learned in the project. Caption, should NOT say ( in this picture) it is obvious that it is a picture, hopefully of you, wasted characters. Caption should describe the skill you are doing and why and how it contributed to the success of your project. A picture is indeed worth a thousand words.!!

13. Required Application Attachments/Uploads The following items listed below must be submitted (uploaded) for the Star application: SAE Agreements Attach a copy of your most recent SAE partnership, rental, Family Corporation or occupational training agreement. Recommendations three one-page recommendations: 1. Agriculture instructor recommendation, and 2. Two other recommendations (if your SAEs include placement, please include at least one employer recommendation). Each requirement must be uploaded as a PDF. Each PDF must be less than 5 megabytes in size. Select a file, and then wait for the file to finish uploading.

14. PRINT and EDIT Print the application Have your mentor read it and give you thoughts: have you used terms correctly. Grammar!! Spelling!!! Go over the application, today, then, go over it again in a week and make more edits.

15. Rubrics Rubrics can be found at: Paffa.org/FFA/Degrees and Awards