Kaskaskia College Agriculture Students receive accolades from fall Professional Agricultural Conference | kaskaskia.edu
Kaskaskia College Agriculture Students receive accolades from fall Professional Agricultural Conference | kaskaskia.edu
Kaskaskia College Agriculture Students receive accolades from fall Professional Agricultural Conference
Twenty-one Kaskaskia College agricultural students participated in the Illinois State Professional Agricultural Student (PAS) Fall Conference in October 2022 at Hancock Stadium on the Illinois State University campus. The conference is a collegiate-level competition-style learning model that gives students the practical and hands-on development opportunities essential for career success. Students competed in Career Program Area (CPAs) in industry and personal development. Sixteen of the twenty-one students will advance on to National PAS Conference in March 2023, being held in Ankeny, Iowa.
Industry Development CPA1st place Soils Specialist Team: Dee Boeing – 1st place individual, Zach Kampwerth, Katie May 4th place Soils Specialist Team: Sam Britt, David Stine, Matthew Grab
Personal Development CPACloe Haas (Mascoutah)- 2nd Employment Interview - Agricultural Education and 2nd Career Progress - Agricultural Education SystemsDelainey Enloe (Mulberry Grove)- 3rd Career Progress - Agricultural Education SystemsZach Kampwerth (Breese)- 3rd Employment Interview - Crop Production and 1st Career Progress – Non-Ruminant Animal SystemsDee Boeing (Breese)- 1st Career Progress – Retail Agribusiness SystemsKatie May (Nashville)- 1st Career Progress – Power, Structural, and Technical SystemsSam Britt (Patoka)- 1st Career Progress – Agribusiness Management and MarketingMatthew Grab (Freeburg)- 1st Career Progress – Plant SystemsBrooke Tompkins (Mulberry Grove)- 1st Employment Interview – Fertilizers and Ag Chemicals and 1st Career Progress – Agricultural Processing and BiotechnologyFaith Prather (Highland)– 3rd Employment Interview – Ruminant Animal Systems and 1st Career Progress – Dairy ProductionAdam Heimann (Breese)– 3rd Career Planning – Ruminant Animal SystemsJoey VonBokel (Pocahontas)– 1st Career Planning – Plant SystemsHayden Torrance (Patoka) – 1st Career Planning – Agricultural Processing and BiotechnologyCorrin Heiling (Highland) – 2nd Employment Interview – Horticulture Resource Systems and 1st Career Planning Fruit and Vegetable ProductionBrock Heimann (Breese)– 1st Employment Interview – Ag Equipment Service and 1st Career Planning – Power, Structural, and Technical SystemsBailey Pelka (Nashville)– 1st Career Planning – Agribusiness Management and MarketingWilson Welch (Okawville)– 1st Career Planning – Retail Agribusiness Systems
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