{"id":106,"date":"2020-10-09T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/?p=106"},"modified":"2020-10-15T10:02:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T14:02:55","slug":"ag-dawg-kickoff-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/2020\/10\/ag-dawg-kickoff-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Ag Dawg Kickoff 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/files\/2020\/10\/ag-dawg-kickoff-2020-1.jpg\" alt=\"Katie Fife (far left) and Doug Bailey, assistant dean for academic affairs, (far left) hand out Ag Dawg swag bags at Ag Dawg Kickoff.\" class=\"wp-image-107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/files\/2020\/10\/ag-dawg-kickoff-2020-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/files\/2020\/10\/ag-dawg-kickoff-2020-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/files\/2020\/10\/ag-dawg-kickoff-2020-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/files\/2020\/10\/ag-dawg-kickoff-2020-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>It rained, but the&nbsp;students&nbsp;came. It rained, but they wanted a chance to grab some Ag Dawg swag. It rained, but they smiled behind their masks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ag Dawg Kickoff was&nbsp;a different format than usual for&nbsp;2020, yet&nbsp;it&nbsp;still&nbsp;provided the CAES Alumni Association the chance&nbsp;welcome students back to campus and to the fall semester. Between Ag Dawg Kickoff experiences on the Athens, Griffin and Tifton campuses, the alumni association created smiles for&nbsp;632&nbsp;students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year,&nbsp;Ag Dawg Kickoff was a grab and&nbsp;go&nbsp;set-up to limit crowds. Students&nbsp;in Athens&nbsp;came&nbsp;by the lawn of&nbsp;Four Towers&nbsp;over the course of two days to get their swag bag.&nbsp;Griffin and Tifton also set-up Ag Dawg Kickoff stations in their buildings.&nbsp;The bags included an Ag Dawg branded&nbsp;tote&nbsp;bag, Ag Dawg Kickoff T-shirt, Hardy Farms peanuts,&nbsp;a cookie&nbsp;and a welcome note from the alumni association.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/files\/2020\/10\/ag-dawg-kickoff-2020-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Two students brave the rain to pick up their Ag Dawg swag bag.\" class=\"wp-image-109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/files\/2020\/10\/ag-dawg-kickoff-2020-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/files\/2020\/10\/ag-dawg-kickoff-2020-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/files\/2020\/10\/ag-dawg-kickoff-2020-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/files\/2020\/10\/ag-dawg-kickoff-2020-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/files\/2020\/10\/ag-dawg-kickoff-2020-3-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Joe West, Bailey Lawson and Jenna Franke having a conversation during Ag Dawg Kickoff.\" class=\"wp-image-112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/files\/2020\/10\/ag-dawg-kickoff-2020-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/files\/2020\/10\/ag-dawg-kickoff-2020-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/files\/2020\/10\/ag-dawg-kickoff-2020-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/files\/2020\/10\/ag-dawg-kickoff-2020-3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Alumni and friends made it possible for the alumni association to buy more T-shirts than ever before by supporting the Give a Tee, Get a Tee campaign.&nbsp;More than 150 people gave to support this campaign, which raised $4,680!&nbsp;Donors were able to write&nbsp;notes&nbsp;to students welcoming them back to campus, encouraging them to be #AgDawg&nbsp;proud and reminding them that alumni are in their corner and&nbsp;ready&nbsp;to help.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope that you enjoy seeing pictures from Ag Dawg Kickoff on all three campuses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yxpsoztc\">Ag Dawg Kickoff 2020 Gallery<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;\">Ag Dawg Kickoff was a different format than usual for 2020, yet it still provided the CAES Alumni Association the chance welcome students back to campus and to the fall semester.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}