Simulated SAEs

Simulated SAEs

Helping every student complete a meaningful SAE can be challenging. Especially when time, supervision, and access to real-world opportunities are limited. Agricultural Simternships can help.

 

Stukent CTE’s Agribusiness Simternships (simulated internships) offer students engaging, real-world experiences that can provide foundational support for SAEs and make it easier to manage everything on your plate.

Helping every student complete a meaningful SAE can be challenging. Especially when time, supervision, and access to real-world opportunities are limited. Agricultural Simternships can help.

 

Stukent CTE’s Agribusiness Simternships (simulated internships) offer students engaging, real-world experiences that can provide foundational support for SAEs and make it easier to manage everything on your plate.

Agricultural Simternships = Simulated SAEs

These Simternships offer students three simulated workplace scenarios based on different agricultural careers. They can complete one or all three for a broader agribusiness experience.

Agricultural Finance Simternship

Agricultural Finance Simternship

Students help Sunbend Farms, a vegetable producer, evaluate expansion opportunities, compare loan and crop insurance options, and recommend smart investments while analyzing financial data and risk.

Students help Sunbend Farms, a vegetable producer, evaluate expansion opportunities, compare loan and crop insurance options, and recommend smart investments while analyzing financial data and risk.

Agricultural Marketing Simternship

Agricultural Marketing Simternship

Students help Farm Fresh Collective launch farm-to-table meal kits by identifying target customers, building a go-to-market strategy, managing a marketing budget, and improving campaigns using performance data.

Agricultural Sales Simternship

Agricultural Sales Simternship

Students help Farm Fresh Collective identify retail partners for their farm-to-table meal kits by researching prospects, building outreach strategies, delivering sales pitches, and leading buyer conversations.

Students help Farm Fresh Collective identify retail partners for their farm-to-table meal kits by researching prospects, building outreach strategies, delivering sales pitches, and leading buyer conversations.

Teacher Benefits for Using a Simternship

Teacher Benefits for Using a Simternship

More accessible experiences for more students

Give students career-connected agricultural learning opportunities right in the classroom.

Built for busy classrooms

Keep students engaged with structured, real-world tasks that are easier to manage during regular instruction.

Less coordination burden

Reduce the challenge of finding, arranging, and overseeing outside opportunities for every learner.

Flexible implementation

Use one Simternship or all three, depending on your course goals and available time.

Helpful when there’s a substitute

Keep class moving with meaningful, guided activities that can be assigned to your students to complete even when you cannot lead instruction yourself.