Co-op Legacy Fellow Maggi Anstett

Maggi Anstett ’22, Agriculture & Natural Resources
Fall 2019 UConn Co-op Legacy Fellow – Change Grant Recipient

Connecticut Environmental Action Day Digital Kits: Making a Lasting Impact on Students and the Environment

Project Summary

Connecticut Environmental Action Day is an annual conference that seeks to inspire middle school students to create a plan to be more environmentally friendly. Madeline and her project partners Maggi Anstett and Margaret Sanders will work with their mentors from UConn Extension to create and build digital kits for middle school students who cannot attend this conference in person.

Change Grant Recipient Maggi Anstett.About Maggi

Maggi is an Agriculture and Natural Resource major. After graduating with her bachelors, she plans to go into the Teacher Certification Program for College Graduates for Agriculture Education. Maggi has a huge passion for agriculture in the United States. Her goal in life is to educate the future generation of students about the importance of agriculture. Maggi has been involved with the National FFA Organization for the past six years. She is a lifetime member of the organization, was a member of the Utah State Collegiate FFA, was a member of New Century Farmer Conference, and has recently received her American Degree. She continues to manage her family poultry and waterfowl hobby farm. Her favorite animal is the pig, but she loves all animals as well. She has a current independent study with Stacey Sterns and is creating educational flyers and surveys for Connecticut Environmental Action Day. Maggi is very excited to see how effective CEAD and the new Digital Kits would be on the middle school students in 2020. She is very thankful and eager for the variety of opportunities that the UConn Co-op Legacy Fellowship – Change Grant Program is providing her.