Emily Jay

Today was my last day teaching at Minnewaska Area High School. The students wrapped up the day with comparing imports and exports for Minnesota and Pennsylvania, reviewing with a food web activity, and watching a mushroom farm video. Thank you all for the memories! #WFPFGOALS

Day 4 of #WFPFGOALS teaching! The students took what they have been learning about global ag this week and continued to look further at their state and local levels for food insecurity through a mapping activity. Each student came up with a goal to help fix this issue!

Day 3 of teaching for #WFPFGOALS! The students dug deeper into why countries have food insecurity and how we can fix that both abroad and in our communities through a trading game with nutrition groups. Afterwards, I ate Walleye while listening to a MN Farm Bureau meeting!

#WFPFGOALS Day Two: Students learned about ag systems, where commodities have originated in the world, and the seed vault. Learning that you can only teach as fast as they can understand topics. After class, we toured Riverview Dairy to see a carousel system and a calf be born!

Day one of teaching at Minnewaska High School was a blast! Started off the day with snow and no delay. Then, had a tour at a local vineyard before teaching the 7th grade class. The students got to learn about what global citizenship entails plus the 17 SDGs! #WFPFGOALS

Day two in Minnesota!!! Today was preparation day, where Paige and I got to tour Minnewaska High School and make some final touches to our lesson plans. We also got to experience Oakdale Farms, a local turkey family farm from another #WFPFGOALs host that started in the 1800s!

Travel Day for our #WFPFGOALs Spring Immersion!!!! We landed in Minnesota to lots of snow and the open road. Stopped to see the World's Largest Ball of Twine in Darwin and then headed over to Watkins for delicious food from The Red Goat! Can't wait to see more of Minnesota!

"Dare to dream a dream for others." This was a challenge that was set at the lecture I attended last night. What dreams do you have that fulfill the dreams of others, that impact others? #WFPFGOALS

As we wrap up our fall immersion here at the #foodprize22 with #wfpfgoals, we had the opportunity to visit the Hall of Laureates. Learning about Borlaug, I was reminded that it takes an army to put great ideas into action! Building those connections now is key! #becauseofborlaug

Congratulations Dr. Rosenzweig on being the 2022 @WorldFoodPrize Laureate Award winner for your tremendous strides in climate action and food sustainability! Something that I wish to expand on while educating younger generations. A true inspiration to all! #foodprize22 #wfpfgoals

Question #5: I will create a more interactive and global communicative curriculum for my students to emphasize the importance of food security and inspire new innovations. #FoodPrize22

Question #4: CRISPR can be a great potential tool in agricultural production for food security that is continuing to be researched due to USAID funding! #FoodPrize22

Question #3: Climate is one of the triple threats to food security because it is a key process to producing crops, which has been effecting countries all over the world. #FoodPrize22

Question #2: GOALs has been connecting with inspirational figures within food security and climate action to learn information and ways that they can get high school students passionate about finding new solutions to these issues during our spring immersion. #FoodPrize22

Question 1: I am personally connected to issues of food security because of food accessibility within school systems due the inflated market and erratic climate conditions in my community. #FoodPrize22

Hello! I'm Emily a pre-service agricultural educator at Penn State University passionate about bringing agriculture to younger generations! @KristaPontius join on in! #FoodPrize22

Opening session today! I'm excited to share the importance of orphan crops emphasized by Cary Fowler with my future students! #WFPFgoals #foodprize22 @CaryFowler_

My favorite WFP Laureate is Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, who won this prestigious award in 2021 for her work in improving nutrition with aquatic food systems. #FoodPrize22 #WFPFGoals

Say hello to Emily Jay, a member of this year’s #WFPFGOALS program. She is a pre-service agriculture educator at Teach Ag! at Penn State! #FoodPrize22 @TeachAgPSU @WorldFoodPrize (4/20)