2025 AZ Summit and 59th Biennial Conclave

Conference Schedule -- Tentative and Subject to Change

Thursday, March 20, 2025

 3:00 p.m.    Hotel Check-In and Summit Registration

 

 6:00 p.m.    Gather in Hotel Lobby for Travel to Cornell Chapter House


 6:30 p.m.    Welcome Dinner, T-Shirt Exchange, and Banner Contest

                      Casual Attire

 

Friday, March 21, 2025

  8:00 a.m.     Gather in Hotel for Travel to Farm and Ag. Business Tours

                        Casual Attire

 

                             Sunnyside Farms Dairy

                             DuMond Farms


  1:00 p.m.    Lunch en route


                             Trelaven Winery

                             Walking Tour of Cornell University Campus

                            


   5:30 p.m.    Arrive at Hotel

        

   7:00 p.m.    Depart Hotel for Dinner on Your Own

                        Casual Attire

 

Saturday, March 22, 2025  

   8:00 a.m.    Depart Hotel for Service Events -- Non-Conclave Delegates

                        Work/Farm Attire -- plenty of digging, carrying, lifting, etc.

                        Divide into groups and work at one of the following locations:

 

                            Shannon Brook Farm

                            Camp Comstock

                            Ithaca Waldorf School

 

    9:00 a.m.   59th Biennial Conclave -- Conclave Delegates

                        Business Professional Attire

 

  10:45 a.m.   Depart for Hotel


  11:15 a.m.   Grab and Go Lunch at Hotel

 

All Professional Development Seminars are Business Casual Attire

 

  1:00 p.m.    "Coping with the Financial and Emotional Challenges of Farming"

                       Address by Kendra Janssen, Education and Research Specialist

                       NY FarmNet

 

  2:00 p.m.    Break

 

  2:15 p.m.    Panel Discussion on Agriculture Career Paths

                       Featuring Cornell Chapter Alumni

 

  3:15 p.m.    Break

 

  3:30 p.m.    Alpha Zeta Chapter Enrichment Breakout Groups

                       Facilitated by High Council Members

 

  5:30 p.m.    Group/Chapter Photos

                       Business Professional Attire

 

  6:15 p.m.    Initiation Ritual

                      Business Professional Attire

 

 7:00 p.m.    Awards Banquet

                      Business Professional Attire

 

Sunday, March 23, 2025

 Depart for Home