National Agriscience Fair program information Agriscience education is intended to enhance the image of agriculture by portraying to students that agriculture includes many careers that are not solely agricultural production or business oriented. In education, agriscience is the incorporation and application of the biological and physical sciences through problem solving based on a controlled experimental method, into the study of the production, processing and distribution of food, feed, fiber products. Students participate in research problems in their local communities and then prepare a scientific report and display for judging at the national level. Agriscience Student Scholarship and Recognition Program recognizes individual FFA members for exceptional accomplishments in the investigation of a problem through their classroom agriscience studies, supervised agricultural experience and FFA activities.
Students prepare a scientific paper and make an oral presentation on their research.
Agriscience Teacher of the Year award program was designed to recognize teachers who integrate applied science into their curriculum through innovative approaches, which excites their students and involves them in hands-on activities. Student instruction includes areas such as aquaculture, biotechnology, food science, physical science, plant science and animal science. The teachers who have been selected as state and national winners have provided model examples of successful agriculture programs and FFA chapters. These teachers have extended learning beyond the classroom door. The impact made by these advisors will continue to influence the direction of agriculture education well into the next century.