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<\/p>\nROBSTOWN, Texas \u2014 Beyond the barns and animal exhibits at the Nueces County Junior Livestock Show, students are showcasing impressive agricultural mechanics projects that represent dedication and skill development.<\/p>\n
Ninth-grader Alexa Garrett has been participating in the Nueces County Livestock Show since she was in 3rd grade. This year, she went above and beyond by building a storage house with a small greenhouse for her ag mech project.<\/p>\n
“This area is probably my favorite thing out of the whole shed,” Garrett said, pointing at the greenhouse area. <\/p>\n
The ambitious project required significant dedication and skill.<\/p>\n
“It took a little over 100 hours within the span of a few weeks, and I feel like one of the hardest parts was cutting the fiberglass grating for the greenhouse because that’s such like a dangerous little thing to do,” Garrett said.<\/p>\n
Young builders display impressive ag mech projects at livestock show<\/p>\n
The charming shed was built by Garrett with help from her family, creating lasting memories in the process.<\/p>\n
“I worked on it with a couple of my family members. It was me while my aunt was in town. Her kids kind of like played with it too, and it was just like I feel like every time I work on a project for the NCJLS, it, it’s like a bonding experience for my family,” Garrett said.<\/p>\n
Not all projects are large-scale builds. Fourth-grader Summer Garcia created a love bookshelf, demonstrating that hard work goes into projects of all sizes.<\/p>\n
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Stephanie Molina<\/p>\n
NCJLS AG Mech Competitor, Summer Garcia, with her project (a love bookshelf).<\/p>\n
“Project goals, planning my project,” Garcia said, explaining her methodical approach.<\/p>\n
Garcia detailed her construction process with precision.<\/p>\n
“Get three 2 x 4 wood boards and mark with measurements for cutting. Use a square to draw straight lines,” Garcia said.<\/p>\n
Like Garret, Garcia also enjoyed working alongside family members during the building process.<\/p>\n
“And then we have pictures of me and my popo,” Garcia said.<\/p>\n
Many NCJLS ag mech competitors who receive blue ribbons can sell their projects to the community, which excites both students.<\/p>\n
“It feels like I’m making my own shop when it’s really not a shop,” Garcia said.<\/p>\n
The Nueces County Junior Livestock Show ag mech silent auction begins Thursday at 8 a.m. and continues until Saturday at 4 p.m. for qualifying projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROBSTOWN, Texas \u2014 Beyond the barns and animal exhibits at the Nueces County Junior Livestock Show, students are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[55707,155,157,156,55708,53270,55709,725,10873],"class_list":{"0":"post-129969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-ag-mech-projects","9":"tag-corpus-christi","10":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","11":"tag-corpus-christi-news","12":"tag-ncjls-ag-mech-projects","13":"tag-nueces-county-junior-livestock-show","14":"tag-nueces-county-junior-livestock-show-ag-mech-projects","15":"tag-robstown","16":"tag-stephanie-molina"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}