SAE Night

At the end of January, Pequea Valley hosted an SAE night for current members to work on their AET record keeping books. The event started right after school at 2:25 and lasted until 5:30. Before the event, I had to brush up on working with AET. My last exposure to it was in 2016 in AEE 311 so after spending five minutes on the site; I quietly became familiar with it. 

We had about 10 attend with various types of projects such as: working at a fish hatchery, horticulture operations, dairy operation, etc. The students that came in the majority of their projects were in placements that I have observed. 

The structure of the event was pretty relaxed. Students came in grabbed a checklist and start updating their books. What I noticed with some student is that they forget to update their books daily or even weekly, so they spent a lot of time looking through calendars and pay stubs. The checklist that they had walked them through what they needed on AET. Such as their profiles, skills developed, and the number of entries.  As students were making these updates, Doug and Jasmine would sit down with each student asking questions about their projects and clarifying any issues that they had, especially when it came to the financial section. 

Overall the event was a success! This would definitely be something that I would do in the future! It's a great way to get students record systems updated and be promoted a chapter social event. Students were able to get the feedback needed along with tons of candy and pizza.