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Farming neighbors Alan Kemper (left) and Jerry
Smit are set to be the hosts for the Farm Progress Show on 1,500
acres of their Tippecanoe County farmland.
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"The greatest benefit to the university is the visibility and contact
with the thousands of visitors," says David Petritz, director of Purdue's
Cooperative Extension Service.
The 500 Purdue volunteers have been pooled from the Schools of Agriculture,
Consumer and Family Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine, as well as Extension
educators from throughout the state. They will serve as maze tour guides,
"meeters and greeters" who answer questions at exhibits, and recruiters
for the university.
"Purdue is considered one of the premier ag schools in the entire world,"
says Petritz. "Those in agriculture, domestic and international, expect
Purdue Agriculture to be very visible at the show answering questions
and presenting information.
"We would be missed if we were not present and visible in a big way.
The show delivers information, provides thousands of contacts, provides
front page stories and puts us in touch with parents and youth from
all over Indiana, the Midwest and the world."
Brenda Hofmann has already touched both parents and youth using the
maze as a summertime classroom for a group of students from Wea Ridge
Elementary School in Tippecanoe County.
Hofmann, an agronomy technician, took 15 Wea Ridge students and their
parents through the maze on July 30. The tour served not only as a trial
run for some maze volunteers, but also as a field lesson in Global Positioning
System technology that will augment what the students learned back in
the classrooms when school resumed in August.
The Purdue people who created the maze used GPS technology to lay it
out, and visitors can use GPS computers to navigate their way through
the maze.
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