Science and Agriculture Enrichment Day Friday 13 June 2014 9:00am – 2:30pm The 2014 Science and Agriculture Enrichment Day offers high school students in agriculture, and primary industries the opportunity to observe and take part in work done by professional agricultural and animal scientists. Students will have hands on experience and gain an insight into meat quality, soil root nematodes, the science of a healthy brain and its protection and grain quality and screening in four 45 minute sessions. Sessions 1 2 Session Muscle to Meat and Eating Quality, including primal and cut identification Soil Root Nematodes Presenter Steph Fowler (CSU) Location Kylie Crampton (CSU) 3 Science of a healthy brain and its Syed Haris Omar protection (CSU) 4 Grain quality and screening Soumi Mukhopadhyay and Adeola Alashi (CSU) SAWS = School of Agriculture and Wine Sciences Students must wear footwear that fully encloses the foot (shoes/boots). Morning tea will be provided and students are required to bring their own lunch. There is no cost for attending. Routes between sessions At the completion of each session, a guide will accompany students to the next venue. Program 9.00 ‐9.20am – Arrival at CSU Convention Centre, Pugsley Place. On arrival, students will be placed into one of five groups, A, B, C, D or E, with at least one teacher to accompany each group. Guides from venues 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 will take one group each to these venues for a 9.30 am start. Time 9:30–
10:15 Group A Group B Muscle to Soil root Meat and nematodes Eating Quality, including primal and cut identification 10:25– Grain quality Muscle to 11:10 and screening Meat and Eating Quality, including primal and cut identification 11:10–
Morning Tea 11:40 and presentation of Ag Inspirations Awards 11:50–
Science of a Grain quality 12:35 healthy brain and screening & its protection 12:45–
1:30 Soil root nematodes Science of a healthy brain & its protection 1:30—
2:30 Lunch Group C Science of a healthy brain & its protection Group D Grain quality and screening Soil root nematodes Science of a healthy brain & its protection CSU CONVENTION CENTRE Muscle to Soil root Meat and nematodes Eating Quality, including primal and cut identification Grain quality Muscle to and screening Meat and Eating Quality, including primal and cut identification CSU CONVENTION CENTRE There will be a break for morning tea in the CSU Convention Centre and sessions will finish at 1.30 pm, followed by lunch in the Convention Centre. Contact: Ms Toni Nugent Public Relations Manager Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation Phone: 02 6933 4402; Mobile: 0418 974 775; Email: [email protected]