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  Nominate a Future Transformational Scholar   Greetings,  I hope this message finds you well. I am Dr. Trisha Mackey and I have the honor of serving as the Inaugural Director of the NC State College of Education’s Transformational Scholarships Program. The Transformational Scholarships Program provides scholarships totaling $40,000 over four years to promising high school students from Eastern North Carolina who will return to the region to teach after graduating from NC State College of Education. The program was made possible due to a generous charitable grant from the Anonymous Trust. The inaugural class of Transformational Scholars represents 10 different eastern North Carolina counties and comprises eight elementary education majors, five mathematics education majors, two science education majors, and one middle grades language arts and social studies major. It is now time to begin recruiting the next cohort of Transformational Scholars. As an NC State Extention ...

BIWEEKLY UPDATE | OCT 2022 #MONSTERPLANT GARDENS FALL FESTIVAL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS OUT ON THIS CHALLENGE!!!! #MONSTERPLANT Haircut We gave our #MONSTERPLANT a haircut!!  Don't forget   to submit your very own #monsterplants for a  chance to win!  We want to see your own creations from home! Here's how to WIN:  Post them on social media including the hashtags  #jmgkids #monsterplant  and tag  @jmgkids Email them, along with your city/state/kid's first name to:  juniormastergardener@gmail.com FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOR MORE INFO!  FALL FESTIVAL AT THE  GARDENS Huge thank you to all who came out to the annual Fall Festival at the  TAMU Gardens! Keep an eye out for more fun garden events and follow them on  social media  to stay up to date!! Conference Countdown : REGISTRATION OPENS SOON! REGISTRATION OPENS: Monday, November 7, 2022 CLOSES: Tuesday, February 24, 2023 2023  National JMG Leade...

  All high school youth are invited to join us for the 2023 North Carolina Youth Institute (NCYI), a program that provides a platform for youth to research and give recommendations towards global food security and understand key global challenges that range from access to potable water, poverty, human rights, engineering issues, and more.  Write a paper : Youth select a country besides their own and research the challenges families face around food and write a paper with proposed community-based solutions. Youth present their paper to their peers at the in-person NCYI at NC State and work collectively to find common themes around global hunger. Participate in hands-on workshops. Youth will have a chance to explore hands-on sessions led by faculty across CALS to learn more about NC agriculture and food systems. Become a Borlaug Scholar. After participating in the NCYI, youth will be named a Borlaug Scholar by the World Food Prize.  Join us for a NCYI Q&A webinar on...

On behalf of AgCareers.com I wanted to reach out to inform you about our great FREE resources for job seekers and students:   #FeedYourFuture Virtual Career Fairs:   Organizations are looking for talent to fill the workforce gaps in the agriculture and food industry. There are abundant opportunities in production, logistics, finance, processing, technology, packaging, and much more. Careers are available on the farm, in the field, plant, lab and office.      We are hosting several career fairs, with the first one being next week:     ·           Next Wednesday November  2nd o     You can register for FREE for the event  HERE : ·           Eastern U.S.A. - January 18, 2023 ·           And  FIVE more fairs  in the new year!     #FeedYourFuture Scholarship   This is very fi...