My First SASES Experience

This semester I had the opportunity to attend my first SASES conference meeting in San Antonio Texas. If you don’t know what SASES is, it stands for Students in Agronomy, Soils, and Environmental Sciences. At this conference I was able to attend business meetings, compete in contests, and explore the state of Texas. We were given the opportunity to tour some of the wonders Texas had to offer including a lavender farm, a pecan farm, a cave, and the botanical gardens. I learned a lot from all of them and it was an amazing experience through them all. I then had the opportunity to compete in the Pedology contest, which is basically just a soils contest, that tested me over soil names, textures, structures, and other processes that occur from Texas soils. After that contest, I presented a poster in the Internship Poster contest. I wrote about my experiences that occurred through the 2024 summer at Precision Planting where I was a soil science intern. I then presented the poster to groups of people walking through the expo center. Overall, the 2024 fall SASES meeting was a blast. I got to meet new people, hangout with familiar friends and got to explore Texas. Great experience for the Fall 2024 semester!

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