National Agriscience Teacher Ambassador Academy
Summer 2025
Congratulations! Your interest in promoting agriscience within your state and region as a National Agriscience Teacher Ambassador shows your dedication to professional development and growth. Please read the following information to determine if you are willing and able to serve in this position.
Applying to attend the National Agriscience Teacher Ambassador Academy is a commitment to promote agriscience and inquiry based learning to other teachers in your state, region and across the nation. Each summer, specially selected teachers spend a week participating in an interactive, hands-on application based science training program. The training will include agriculture related labs with a high amount of science content using the "inquiry-based" approach to student learning of agriscience.
If selected as a National Agriscience Teacher Ambassador, you will be required to attend a national training session. The session is scheduled to be held the week of July 14-18, 2025. If selected, a majority of expenses for the week will be paid, including airfare or mileage reimbursement to the selected location, meals, and hotel room based on double occupancy (roomed with a fellow Ambassador).
In addition, you will be required to prepare and present a workshop over an NAAE Agriscience Learning Lab during the National FFA Convention which is October 29-November 1, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Each Ambassador will need to provide their own travel and financial support to attend and present at the National FFA Convention.
You will also be required to prepare and present the an NAAE Agriscience Learning Lab at the NAAE Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, December 9-13, 2025. Financial support will be provided to attend NAAE Convention, including airfare or mileage reimbursement to the convention, convention registration, and hotel room based on double occupancy (roomed with a fellow Ambassador). Additional expenses including meals, travel to and from airport, sub pay, baggage and overage baggage fees, parking, etc. will not be provided.
After providing professional development workshops at National FFA Convention and NAAE Convention, you will be required to provide additional workshops within your state throughout the following years or develop a NAAE Agriscience Inquiry Institute to be held in your state. It is expected that your state supervisors and in-service coordinators will provide the funding to cover expenses for these workshops. You may also be asked by other states to provide additional professional development in agriscience workshops to their teachers' summer conferences or during fall, winter, or spring meetings. These states would be expected to cover expenses you incur during these training opportunities.
If you decide that you can fulfill all the obligations outlined in the above paragraphs and are a current 2024-2025 active member or active life member of NAAE, please visit with your local school administration and state supervisor of Agricultural Education about your interest in the program. BY COMPLETING AND SUBMITTING THIS APPLICATION, YOU ARE VERIFYING YOU HAVE RECEIVED PERMISSION AND SUPPORT FROM YOUR LOCAL SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION AS WELL AS PROVIDE FUNDING SUPPORT. ALL accepted applicants will need to work with their administration to complete and sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) prior to attending the National Agriscience Teacher Ambassador Academy.
If you have questions, contact Cameron Earlywine at (859) 967-2867 or by email at cearlywine.naae@uky.edu. All applications must be submitted electronically by March 17, 2025.