Ag instructor to spend five weeks in Czech Republic
By ROWENA PLETT
Staff writer
Gaea Wimmer, an agricultural education instructor at Centre High School, will be spending five weeks this summer in the Czech Republic.
As a student at Czech Technical University in Prague, she will study Czech history, culture, and geography.
Her work will include visits to the countryside and opportunities to learn to know rural Czechians.
When her studies are completed, she will write a curriculum based on what she has learned for her Introduction to Agriculture class at CHS. She plans to show how culture, climate, and geography relate to ethnic foods.
Wimmer is among a group of teachers who will be traveling under the auspices of a Fulbright-Hays project offered through Kansas State University.
She said she was chosen to go to the Czech Republic because she lives near the vicinity of Pilsen in Kansas, a largely Czech community. While there, she plans to visit Pilsen, the community from which the Kansas pioneers came in the 1870s.
