shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com April 3, 2018 • Page 3 25th Annual Sioux Empire Water Fest A Challenge To The SD Ag Foundation BROOKINGS, S.D. - South Dakota youth from 49 area schools had an opportunity to learn about their water By Gov. Dennis Daugaard resource during the 25th Annual Sioux Empire Water Fest This past week, on Tuesday, March 20, we celebrated held March 13 and 14, 2018 on the campus of the UniverNational Ag Day. It was a day proclaimed by the President sity of Sioux Falls. to recognize the “preeminent role that agriculture plays in "Through fun activities and displays, youth learned our daily lives” and “agriculture’s continuing importance to about the various aspects of water literacy - ranging rural America and our country’s economy.” from understanding the water cycle, to how our daily I was fortunate to spend part of that day at POET headquarters in Sioux Falls where we celebrated the creation of actions impact the resource," said Katherine Jaeger, SDSU Extension Youth Outdoor Education Field Specialist and the South Dakota Agriculture Foundation. The Foundation member of the Water Fest planning committee. was authorized in the 1970s by the state Legislature, but Jaeger explained the purpose of the event is to inspire the law sat on the books for several years before anything came of it. It was our former Secretary of Agriculture, Lucas interest among fourth-graders in science, technology, Lentsch, who saw the statute and came to me with the idea engineering and math or STEM topics. "Research shows that during the upper elementary of creating a private funding source for ideas and projects to school and lower middle school years student engagebenefit agriculture. ment in STEM subjects begins to decrease - particularly In 2016, the Ag Foundation got its start and began work in female youth. Through Water Fest, we hope to make to provide economic development assistance, sponsor STEM education fun and engaging to can create a reyouth programs and encourage philanthropy within the industry. The Foundation already has a number of support- newed passion or to introduce them to entirely new topic ers, including POET, which announced a $250,000 contribu- areas that may interest them," she said. Jaeger was among a team of SDSU Extension and South tion on National Ag Day. To spur more generous donations, I have joined with the South Dakota Community Foundation Dakota 4-H staff who participated in organizing the event and issued a challenge to the Ag Foundation. If the Founda- that provided fun, hands-on learning opportunities to 2,166 students. tion can raise $4 million in the next five years, the State of "As the outreach arm of our land grant university, South Dakota and the Community Foundation will each contribute $500,000 to the fund for future grants and programs. SDSU Extension has a mission to provide research-backed The landscape of agriculture in South Dakota is changing. information to the public," Jaeger said. "This event is a We need to look beyond today, and adapt to those changes. great opportunity to share information with youth." th To thrive, we must be December 2nd seize , 9th & 10th, 16th & 17Along with Jaeger, the other SDSU Extension and in a position to & 3rdopportunity • 1-3:00PM South Dakota 4-H staff who participated in the event inwhen it arises. That is what Your Cameras! will help the Ag Foundation Bring clude: John McMaine, SDSU Extension Water Management us to do as a state. It will serve as a funding source for the Engineer; Christine Wood, SDSU Extension 4-H STEM Field ideas and projects that we can’t even imagine yet. Ultimately, the Ag Foundation will serve to protect and enhance our state’s number one industry. 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