NTAE: “My Hometown is Cool” Feature Story

“My Hometown is Cool,” created by educators at West Virginia University Extension, is a toolkit for teaching youth how to be community developers and entrepreneurs. This publication gives a brief overview of how the program works and what the creators hope to accomplish with it.

The publication is excerpted from the New Technologies for Ag Extension 2022-2023 Yearbook, which documents dozens of projects funded through the New Technologies for Ag Extension (NTAE) program. NTAE is a cooperative agreement between USDA NIFA, Oklahoma State University, and the Extension Foundation. The goal of the New Technologies for Ag Extension (NTAE) grant is to incubate, accelerate, and expand promising work that will increase the impact of the Cooperative Extension System (CES) in the communities it serves, and provide models that can be adopted or adapted by Extension teams across the nation.