Agriscience SAE Visit

As part of my Introduction to Agricultural Sciences class I made it a mandatory project for all students to complete and agriscience research project. For this visit I worked with Kole Hollinger who is a freshman. This student is an active member of the FFA and is very involved with volleyball. He is a twin and is a very kind and caring young man.

We did the visit at Manheim Central High School where his project is being housed in Mrs. Anderson's classroom. We did the visit during homeroom period. Prior to the visit I just made sure that he was okay with myself writing a write up on it.

The students agriscience research project is raising guppies and collecting data on their weight gain. There are two tanks, with four guppies per tank. One tank is getting fed just plain guppy feed where the other is getting that plus shrimp that are also being grown in a separate tank. Once a week he weighs the guppies on a balance and in a clear plastic cup. For weigh purposes he weighs out the water first and than adds the guppies and from there figures out the weight of the four guppies together.

We did discuss that there was a wrench thrown at him during this project. About four days after we got the guppies and had them in their right tanks and weights taken we came back to school on a Monday and were looking at the tanks. Wouldn't you know it, we had babies in one tank. So we got another tank to separate the babies out and two days later the other tank had babies. More for your money I guess or maybe turtle feed.

The record book Kole is using is AET. So he does not have to log on every single day to put in that he fed his guppies I gave him a note books where he logs in what he does daily and later he can go in and add it all to his AET record book.

It has been interesting to see the projects that my students have chosen and how they are turning out. There is never a dull moment with this class.