Paying for College continued from page 21 What are your future career plans? To be a large animal vet. Where can we learn more about your current job? Any farming magazine, Fauquier Extension Office. Any local beef, sheep or pig farmer. Name: Marissa Kunkel City: Marshall Age: 12 School: Current Mountainside Montessori Student How are you earning money for college? I am raising my own sheep. I have four ewes and a ram, and I fatten and sell the lambs. I also fatten pigs to sell, and this year I am raising a bottle baby calf named Carlos. He is a Black Angus. I also am a member of the 4-H Beef and Boer Goat Club. Each year we participate in the Show & Sale, which is a program that helps kids raise money for college. This year I had the Grand Champion Hog, and Kyla had the Grand Champion lamb and Reserve Champion Polled Hereford Steer. What made you go that route rather than more traditional means to earn college money? I am too young to be in retail, and I think raising animals is a better way of saving for college. I get to be my own boss. How do your friends /family motivate/encourage you? My parents gave me the money to buy my first animal four years ago. Now I have the money to buy all my own animals and feed. My friends and relatives also buy my animals. What are you planning to study when you are in school? I am not sure. I am just graduating from Mountainside Montessori this year, and next year I will go to Marshall Middle School. What are your future career plans? I am not sure. Where can we learn more about your current job? Other farmers or the extension office. Our 4-H leader is Rhonda Williams 703-431-1404 What are your future career plans? I am exploring several paths in terms of my life long career. In the meantime, I plan to build and sell as many chicken hutches as I can while seeking out future career possibilities. Where can we learn more about your current job? You can learn all about my little business at www.bucabuc.com Name: Kyla Kunkel City: Marshall Age: 14 School: Future VA Tech Student; Current Mountain Laurel Montessori Student How are your earning money for college? I am a member of our local 4H Beef and Boer Goat club. It has a program that allows and gives us the tools to teach us how to purchase, fatten/ finish and market our animals to raise money for college. I have also branched out and begun breeding my own stock to sell to friends and family. What made you go this route rather than more traditional means to earn college money? I decided to use the raising and marketing of animals because there is a large market for naturally raised local meat. I also love working with animals. How do your friends/family motivate/encourage you? My parents gave me the money to purchase our first animals four years ago. Now we are totally on our own and making money for college. My family and friends also purchase my meat. What are your studying/planning to study when you are in school? I plan to go to Virginia Tech and study veterinary medicine. I am now graduating from Mountain Laurel Montessori Farm School and will go to Fauquier High this fall. The WiFi Café will provide Internet services to area students without Internet access in their homes. The Café will give students a venue to complete homework assignments and prepare college applications. More information can be obtained through the jeffersontonva.com Web site, email to jeffersontonva@comcast.net, or by mail to Jeffersonton Homework WiFi Café Project; c/o Linda Bradshaw, General Delivery; Jeffersonton, VA 22724. Jeffersonton Homework WiFi Café 22 Piedmont Family Magazine 2013 • Issue 4