Supervised Agriculture Experiences  

The SAE program involves practical agricultural activities performed by students outside of scheduled classroom and laboratory time. SAEs provide a method in agricultural education for students to receive real-world career experiences in an area of agriculture that they are most interested in. Supervised Agricultural Experiences are an important component of agricultural education and are required element of all Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (AFNR) courses.

Types of SAE Projects      

FOUNDATIONAL SAE
All students enrolled in an AFNR course (at all grade levels) are expected to have an SAE.  Foundational SAEs support a student's career interest.  Projects and experiential learning activities for all types of SAEs will develop the student in each of these five Foundational component areas: 

1. Career Exploration
2. Employability Skills & College Readiness
3. Personal Financial Management
4. Workplace Safety
5. Agricultural Literacy Immersion SAEs (traditional SAEs) are developed here.

IMMERSION SAE
Immersion SAEs are an extension of the Agricultural Literacy component of the Foundational SAE and will contribute to a student's growth in all of the Foundational components in an authentic, contextualized manner.  The five Immersion SAE categories build upon the Foundational SAE components in a real-world application. 

1.  Placement/Internship 
2.  Ownership/Entrepreneurship
3.  Research: Experimental, Analysis or Invention
4.  School-Based Enterprise 
5.  Service Learning 

For more information regarding SAEs please refer to the the following link.

https://www.texasffa.org/sae