Despite the curve ball that COVID threw at us, we were still able to conclude this semester’s Cows Create Careers (CCC) activities with input from panelists and fun activities around careers in agriculture. Bronte Gorringe shared her career pathway as an agribusiness consultant from Mulchay & Co and described how this was combined with her passion for production agriculture, especially sheep. She reinforced that there are a variety of roles right across agriculture, that knowledge is transferable, the future in ag is bright and it needs good people. English backpacker and teacher, Beth Mclauchlan described dairy as ‘Dairy, my ticket to adventure’ whilst working her way around Australia on a Working Holiday visa. Beth outlined that her work on dairy farms in SW Victoria introduced her to new communities, taught her skills and improved her confidence, financed her travels and will give her great practical examples and ideas to use in her teaching. Inspired by the Lego agriculture career series, students were then challenged to design an advertisement in a field of work they were interested in such as biology/animals, engineering, finance, machinery, research, animal production, and hospitality. The lesson concluded with a dairy taste test where students had to describe the smell, appearance, taste, mouth feel and estimate the percentage of fat in unlabeled cheese, cream, milk, custard and yoghurt. Thank you to all of our CCC champions this semester! Comments are closed.
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