VAST Information
VAST at Alfred State College
Veterinary, Agriculture, Sciences, and Technology (VAST) Career Discovery Day lets more than 700 students per year experience the diversity of academic programs offered at Alfred State. Students from thirty-three school districts have the opportunity to explore forty different hands-on events staged around the Alfred State farm. Activities ranged from trivia contests to educational experiences to encounters with the animals on the farm. ASC faculty members and students introduced and let participants try for themselves skills including but not limited to flying a drone, learning how to give a calf a physical, competing in a skid steer obstacle course, and horse grooming.
VAST in Action
Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026
Alfred State College Farm
| Activity | Location |
| Admissions | In front of Dairy Barn |
| Agronomy Quiz | Calf Barn |
| AI Demonstration/Activity | Dairy Barn |
| Animal Tools | Livestock Barn |
| Animal X-rays | Livestock Barn |
| Archery Demonstration | Road Behind Dairy Barn |
| Architecture Activitiy | Tent next to Hay Barn |
| Ax Throwing Contest | Road Behind Dairy Barn |
| Baseball | Lawn next to entrance |
| Biggies BBQ Food Truck | Road Behind Dairy Barn |
| Biological Sciences | Livestock Barn |
| Calf Haltering and Knot Tying | Calf Barn |
| Calf Physicals | Calf Barn |
| CCET/ASC Online | In front of Livestock Barn |
| Climbing Wall | In front of Dairy Barn |
| Criminal Justice | Tent next to Hay Barn |
| Culinary Arts Activity | Livestock Barn |
| Cyber Security | Livestock Barn |
| Dairy Breeds | Dairy Barn |
| Dawg Doctor Food Truck | In front of Livestock Barn |
| Digital Media & Animation | Front of Rabbit Barn |
| Electrical Wiring Activity | Arena |
| Feast Beast Food Truck | Road Below Calf Barn |
| Forensics - Who done It | Livestock Barn |
| Guess the Tool | Livestock Barn |
| Guess the weight | Livestock Barn |
| Hay Bale Throwing Contest | East End Livestock Bldg. |
| Haylage & Silage Judging | Calf Barn |
| Health Sciences | Livestock Barn |
| Heavy Equipment Operation | Millings Pile |
| Horse Hoof Care and Grooming | East End Livestock Bldg. |
| HVAC Activity | Arena |
| Maple Syrup | Livestock Barn |
| Masonry | Arena |
| Milk Quality Workshop | Dairy Barn |
| Mobile Learning Lab | Lawn next to entrance |
| Motor Sports | Tent next to highway |
| Old Mill Food Truck | Next to Hay Barn |
| Parasitology | Livestock Barn |
| Physics Activity | Livestock Barn |
| Rabbit Production | Rabbit Barn |
| Red Horse Grill Food Truck | Road in front of Ag Bags |
| Registration | Tent next to highway |
| Robotic Milker Demo | Dairy Barn |
| Robotics Activity | Livestock Barn |
| Robot Dogs | Livestock Barn |
| Selfie with a Cow | Lawn next to highway |
| Sheep Herding Dog Demo | Field behind Calf Barn |
| She Brews Food Truck | In front of Dairy Barn |
| Skid Steer Obstacle Course | Commodity Shed |
| Small Animal Sonography | Front of Rabbit Barn |
| Sports Trivia | Livestock Barn |
| Surgical Activity | Livestock Barn |
| Surveying | Tent next to Hay Barn |
| Tool ID Contest | Livestock Barn |
| Vector Feeding Robot Demo | Dairy Barn |
| Weed and Seed ID | Arena |
| Welding | Farm Shop |