"Learn by Doing." It's more than our motto. It is the foundation of education in the Cal Poly College of Agriculture, Food & Environmental Sciences. It means motivated students working closely with experienced professors and professionals, actually doing in the laboratories and fields what they study in the classroom. It is "hands on" experience in real production orchards and livestock yards and food laboratories, facilities replicating the action and environment that students will find when they join the workforce.

If there is a phrase our alumni most often use to describe their "Learn by Doing" experience at Cal Poly, it is "intensely personal." Whether via a Senior Project or an Enterprise Project or a club, team or laboratory activity, something demonstrably magic happened here. And, without question, that magic found root in their character as they went on to build, lead, and transform businesses, families, associations, professions and communities. Our alumni can be found at work in Congress, state legislatures, judicial chambers, offices, fields, homes, halls of fame, community-based organizations and in the annals of history of nearly every walk of life or occupation. Something has served them well, and we think it is "Learn by Doing" at Cal Poly Agriculture.

If you wish to find a way to express your appreciation for "Learn by Doing" and to help us provide others with their own "intensely personal" experience, please consider making a gift to the program, project, club or activity that meant most to you. As you link to the secure server, keep in mind you are also "linking" to an unbroken chain of the most special education in America.

• Develop facilities and land assets
• Enhance instructional technology
• Extend and improve learning
• Provide high-caliber faculty and staff
• Support student internships, fellowships, and enterprise projects

• Swanton Pacific Ranch Education Center
• Viticulture Program
• Food Processing pilot plant
• Rodeo/polo arena
• GIS/GPS classrooms