Andrea Campos

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 ðŸ–¤Andrea’s Adventures🖤

Start Date: 5/10/24

I was helping out Jean to do some nitrogen level scouting with the Green machine.



Hello! I cannot believe that we are at week three of this awesome internship! As I am navigating through this internship - I am blown away by all the wonderful extension agents and extension workers! It has been so fun to meet people of all ages and backgrounds. I really like the internship so far and I have learned so much from my mentors: Mark, Kelly and Nathan! I am so happy to have such fun, caring and inspiring mentors. This past week I got to help out at a field day/ field trip at the WMREC (Western Maryland Research and Education Center) with my mentor Mark! I also got to help out with Jeff and Dr.Amanda Grev! The event had three stations at the WMREC facility for the high school students to tour and learn from the extension specialists! I helped out Mark at the station that talked about Agronomy and careers in agriculture! He talked about progressive agriculture, careers in agriculture and I got to explain on how to stage corn and teach the kiddos about the stages of corn! The other two stations were being led by Jeff and Dr.Grev and they talked about the livestock research they are doing at the farm and the crop research going on at the facility!


The theme of communication is very important in this line of work and I am thankful to be able to exercise that skill throughout these weeks of the internship. An example of this is when my mentors send out the schedule for what Solomon and I have for the upcoming week and where we will be floating across the three county offices! It is also seen through the times in which I am able to choose and attend local conferences and field days in the central Maryland cluster. I appreciate my mentors asking and informing me of these wonderful opportunities and give me the opportunity to also communicate with them the interest I have in certain events- not only in my field, but in other aspects within agriculture that I might not have experience in!

Past calf weighing days! The cows and sheep were pretty good that day- the last few calves were being a bit difficult- but we were able to get a lot done! 



I took a photo of the station that Mark and I had at the WMREC facility for the field day!








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