National March 15, 2016 www.broadcasteronline.com 11 Broadcaster Press 12 Week March 13 ~ 19 Jr. REAL: South Dakota Farmers SDFB "Book In A Bucket" Ag Education Resource Union Continues To Cultivate By Kristin Vandersnick Wins National Award “The goal of the Leaders In South Dakota's Youth Food Link program Our is to Six Wolsey/Wesssington High School students learned how to protect their credit score and earned a cash prize from South Dakota Farmers Union as winners of the Making $ense of Credit and Finance PSA Competition. The winning team includes the following students: Devon Metter, Jamie Cutshaw, Zach Reilly, Matt Larsen, Justin Clark and Judd King. "You can talk about the importance of paying bills on time all you want, but hands-on activities are the best way to help students' understand the value of a good credit score and financial management," explains Erin Wilcox, SDFU Rural Development Specialist. Wilcox is the coordinator of the contest which encourages students to take what they learn from the Farmers Union Jr. REAL (Junior Rural Economic and Leadership) one-day program, and put it into action by creating a video PSA (public service announcement). "Understanding the value of a credit score is critical," says Caroline McGillvrey, a high school teacher and technology coordinator for Wolsey/Wessington High School. "If you put a credit card into the hands of someone who does not realize the power of how it can work - for or against them - the result can follow them for the rest of their life." McGillvrey teaches the Video Editing class where the winning students created their PSA. Set to catchy music with a comedic edge, the PSA shows a high school student receiving his first credit card in the mail, spending excessively at stores across town, and then tossing bills in the garbage instead of paying them. All the while, his credit score continues to drop. "I learned the importance of not throwing away your bills and to pay bills on time," explains Matt Larsen, 16, one of the six team members who created the PSA. Teammate Jamie Cutshaw, 16, added that the competition also emphasized the value of a good credit score. "We were learning about credit scores from the Jr. REAL program and in our Personal Finance class, so the contest made sense and sounded interesting." More about Jr. REAL Farmers Union is developing future leaders through the Jr. REAL program which brings leadership development and life skills training to rural high schools throughout South Dakota. During the 2015-2016 school year, Jr. REAL will reach about 1,000 South Dakota students in rural communities. "We focus on rural high schools because they may not have the opportunity to bring in leadership development speakers that larger schools do," explains Wilcox. When organizing the program, Wilcox invites top-notch speakers to present during the one-day program. This school year, students have heard from Survivor contestant, Holly Hoffman and agriculture advocate and Kansas farmer, Greg Peterson to leadership and life skills coaches Toby Kane, Gerri Ann Eide and Malcom Chapman and others. "This is a great opportunity for Farmers Union to invest in tomorrow's future. The program is designed to encourage students to become leaders, get involved in their community and prepare them for life after high school by giving them common-sense tips to avoid credit and encourage them to pay their bills on time," Wilcox says. To learn more about Jr. REAL and see the winning PSA for yourself, visitwww.sdfu.org/ruraldevelopment-/junior-real. n Courtesy S.D. Farmers Union Broad casteronline .com share with consumers the message that farmers and ranchers provide a safe, healthy and affordable food supply. There’s no better place to talk about the positive story of agriculture than with kids, and this Book in a Bucket program allows us to do that in a fun and interactive way,” said Cindy Foster, farmer from the Fulton, S.D. area and chair of the SDFB Women’s Leadership Team. “We’ve had a lot of fun creating these kits and taking them out to classrooms, and we are An agriculture education resource created by the South truly honored by this Dakota Farm Bureau (SDFB) Women’s Leadership Team award from AFBF.” has won a national award from the American Farm The “Book in a Bureau Federation (AFBF). The “Book in a Bucket” Bucket” concept was education kit was one of three “Our Food Link” program created by SDFB’s winners nationally at the AFBF annual meeting held Women’s Leadership recently in Orlando. Team as a hands-on ag through the Book in a Bucket project. education kit. The kit is convenient “This award is an honor for our for teachers because it delivers a Farm Bureau volunteers who have self-contained ag lesson – complete worked so hard on this project. The with core standards curriculum and quality of outreach programming corresponding props – all in one five- coming from South Dakota Farm gallon bucket with a lid. For example, Bureau speaks to the dedication of the beef-themed bucket contains our farm and ranch members who the book “Our Star Goes West” with want to see agriculture succeed stories about growing up on a cattle through increased understanding by ranch, plus an ear of corn, mineral, the public,” said Krystil Smit, SDFB milk replacer, a calf bottle, matching Executive Director. cow and calf ear tags, coloring pages Foster, along with SDFB Women’s and activities. The beef curriculum Leadership Team vice chair Janet included in the kit is applicable to Hurlbert of Clark, S.D., had the preschool through 6thgrade. opportunity to make a presentation In addition to Farm Bureau of their award-winning project on volunteers presenting the “bucket” the IDEAg trade show stage during lessons in local elementary the AFBF annual meeting. For more classrooms, kits have been donated information about how to use the to or purchased by teachers, afterBook in a Bucket for ag education school programs, libraries, FFA in your community, contact South chapters and 4-H clubs. 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