{"id":673,"date":"2022-06-22T11:50:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T18:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/?p=673"},"modified":"2022-06-22T11:50:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T18:50:35","slug":"learning-what-it-takes-to-be-an-extension-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/2022\/06\/22\/learning-what-it-takes-to-be-an-extension-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning what it takes to be an Extension agent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone!<\/p>\n

My name is Kelci Free, and I am from Scio, Oregon. I recently graduated from OSU with a bachelor\u2019s degree in agricultural sciences and a minor in agriculture education, with plans to attend graduate school at OSU this fall as a part of the agricultural education master\u2019s program. I hope to become an Extension agent after completing this internship and completing the graduate program.<\/p>\n

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Kelci Free designed a graphic to advertise an Extension event<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

For the second summer in a row my internship is with the Extension groundwater protection and education program in the mid-Willamette Valley. So far, I have been busy at work planning out events schedule for the summer. I will be hosting various nitrate screenings at farmers markets, county Extension offices, and even a neighborhood screening. I will continue to grow my skills in networking, advertising for programming, and creating programming in order to gain more experience in what it takes to be an Extension agent.<\/p>\n

Before starting my internship last summer, I had really only thought about Extension helping farmers and putting on county fairs. Over the last year I have had the opportunity to see how much more Extension has to offer no matter your interests or backgrounds through its various programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone! My name is Kelci Free, and I am from Scio, Oregon. I recently graduated from OSU with a bachelor\u2019s degree in agricultural sciences and a minor in agriculture education, with plans to attend graduate school at OSU this fall as a part of the agricultural education master\u2019s program. I hope to become an… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12538,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,66,75,59,65,64],"tags":[28,82,102],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ag-and-natural-resources","category-benton-county","category-lane-county","category-linn-county","category-marion-county","category-polk-county","tag-agriculture","tag-kelci-free","tag-water-quality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}