ATHENS — Poultry has grown to become the top commodity in Georgia’s No. 1 industry, agriculture. Acquainting school-aged students with potential career paths in avian science is critical to staffing the state’s poultry sector.
Building on the foundation set by Avian Academy, the popular continuing education course for teachers offered annually by the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the Georgia Department of Education worked with CAES to create middle and high school poultry science curricula. Now in its third year of use in Georgia public schools, the courses have been adopted by schools across the country.
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