{"id":382754,"date":"2023-08-08T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/?p=382754"},"modified":"2023-08-08T15:58:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T19:58:05","slug":"a-summer-of-ag-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/news\/a-summer-of-ag-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"A Summer of Ag Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Peyton Gardner landed her dream internship after years of trying. Gardner, a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), is working with the internal communications team at BASF<\/a>\u2019s office in Durham, North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis internship is a full-circle moment for me because I\u2019ve wanted to work for BASF since before I came to college,\u201d Gardner says. \u201cIt\u2019s also really cool because my dad interned with BASF when he was in CALS, and now my brother and I are doing the same while we\u2019re students here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Besides the family connections, the internship allows Gardner to blend her two majors: horticultural science and communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPeople and plants are my two favorite things, and by learning about plants, I can share that with people,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m learning about the industry that feeds the world and how to share the importance of that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gardner grew up surrounded by agriculture in a rural area, but she wasn\u2019t always interested in horticulture. Gardner was upset when her high school guidance counselor accidentally enrolled her in a horticulture class, but her counselor encouraged her to try it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n