The National PAS Organization began in 1979 with a gathering in Kansas City. A year later the organization celebrated it's official birth a year later in 1980. In 1980 PAS was officially drafted as one of the ten Career and Technical Student Organizations, there are now eleven recognized organizations. PAS has impacted postsecondary students since the organization began. 

The history of PAS is the history of post-secondary education in agriculture beginning early in the twentieth century. In the 1960's and 1970's federal legislation changed resulting in the rapid growth in the number of institutions offering agricultural education at the post-secondary level.