1. Keeping up with your SAE project online
Meet The AET!
Keeping up with your SAE project online

2. One more acronym to know
The AET
Agriculture Experience Tracker
Created by Texas A&M to help Ag.Ed. students keep up with their SAE projects by developing an online data base

3. Cool features Access your info anywhere
Keeps up with records each year
Pictures, videos, etc.
Proficiency award applications
The American Degree application
Links up with My AgCN

4. Let’s get started! Go to: www.theaet.com
You may want to bookmark this site
On the left side of the screen, you will see “Please Sign In”
Click on yellow “Student” button

7. Logging In To log in, you will first need to enter our chapter number
NC0149 ***MEMORIZE THIS***
Your Username will be first letter of your first name followed by your last name.
Example: KArias
Your password would be the same as your username

9. After logging in…

10. Update your profile

11. Account Information
Please fill the information out as best to your knowledge
You may change your Account Information setting
Please do not change password to something you cannot remember!

12. Setting up an Experience

16. Adding your experience
This is the area that are doing your SAE in
Select Experience Category from the drop down box (Animal Systems= Animals, Plant Systems= Gardening)
You may have the option to select Subcategory
SAE Type (Entrepreneurship, Placement, Exploratory)

17. Adding your experience
Name: Brief description of your SAE
Description: If you would like to give more details about your SAE you may do so here
IMPORTANT! Leave the rest of the boxes as they are!
Click Save

18. Example
My Experience I need to set up is for working in Christmas Trees. This is how it would look…

20. Notes
You would need to create a separate experience for each SAE “project” you might have
For example: You may be mowing hay and also raising beef cattle. You would need to have a Plant Systems Grain Crops experience for the hay and an Animal Systems Beef experience

21. Notes At this point, you have not entered any hours
You MUST first have your experience set up before entering in hours. After setting up your experiences, you can put separate hours in for each day you work in that experience.

22. Entering in hours

25. Entering in Hours
Be sure to select the correct date that you are entering hours for
Activity*: This is the specific thing that you did in your experience
Type: This is your experience(s) that you created earlier
Description: What all you actually did and important notes (weather)
Hours spent that day in activity

26. *A Note about “Activity”
There are several things you can do when working in Christmas Trees or anything in Agriculture. We created the Experience of “Christmas Trees” which is the broad category of our SAE.
Activity is where I would put what I specifically did in Christmas Trees that particular day I am logging

28. Entering in Hours
After entering in your hours and info, click “Save” or if you would like to enter in more hours, click “Save/Enter Another”

29. Reviewing Entries
To View your entries, go back to the “Journal” Section and Select “Review Your Journal Entries”
This will show your online “Log Book”