MAEF Giving Tuesday 2025

Giving Tuesday

“Wow!” “Whoa!” “Awesome!” Those are just a few of the comments we hear regularly on our Mobile Labs while students – and their teachers – learn a thing or two about agriculture. There’s no doubt that using agriculture as a context for learning is engaging, relevant and endlessly fascinating, at any age. Help us keep this program thriving by sponsoring students at just $12.85 each!
Our Mobile Science Labs deliver lessons that introduce modern agriculture with positive messages that farmers care for people, animals, and the planet. Elementary students who have positive exposure to agriculture through the mobile labs develop a better understanding of their relationship to food and food production, and the responsibility that farmers accept in stewarding our natural resources while producing food, feed, fiber, and fuel.

Positive interactions with food, farming and education can guide students to be more curious and active learners and ultimately more informed and well-rounded adults. Today’s students are the consumers, voters, and workforce of tomorrow. Exposing them, at a young age, to the variety of opportunities within agriculture will enable them to make informed decisions about careers and career readiness and consider agriculture as a career.

To keep these programs accessible to all schools, about 60% of the expenses are underwritten by Ag Tag revenues, supplemented by grants from partner organizations. Still, our weekly operational cost of a Mobile Lab is about $4500.

Here’s where we’re hoping you come in. We’ve got big plans at MAEF this year, with new programs on tap and the construction of a new mobile Showcase.

With an average school enrollment of 350 students, the cost per student lab visit comes to $12.85. Could you help us by sponsoring a student? Or ten? Possibly a classroom?
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Dedicated to increasing agricultural literacy and agricultural education, MAEF is a nonprofit organization with programs serving pre-kindergarten through post-secondary audiences. MAEF signature programs include professional development courses for teachers; mobile science labs; mobile agricultural showcases and Maryland FFA. Funded by the Maryland “ag tag” license plate revenues, gifts, grants and program fees, MAEF promotes the importance of agriculture in everyone’s daily lives. For more information visit www.maefonline.com.

A copy of the current financial statement of the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation is available by writing P.O. Box 536, Havre de Grace MD 21078 or by calling (410) 939-9030. Documents and information submitted under the Maryland Solicitations Act are also available, for the cost of postage and copies, from the Maryland Secretary of State, State House, Annapolis MD 21401, (410) 974-5534.
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