Progress 09/01/15 to 05/31/19
Outputs
Target Audience:1) under-represented high school students In Duval County, Fl 2) under-represented college students in Jacksonville, FL 3) 9-12 public high school teachers in the Duval County Public Schools district 4) college faculty in the Florida State College system. Changes/Problems:This project underwent major changes since its inception. The first was enabled through a change in scope, wherein the proposalof a state of Florida approved "Technical Certifiicate" was vacated in favor of the more achievable "Digital Learning Units." In addition, as a proposed larger facility was not funded through a different proposal, a small scale "Aquponics and Hydroponics Laboratory" was funded, created and is now maintained with support solely from Florida State College at Jacksonville internal resources. This aquaponics and hydroponics learning space is currently housed in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences alongside the FSCJ Culinary School and student rundemonstration cafe. Lastly, our original Project Director, Dr. David Beall, passed away suddenly due to unforeseenillness in November 2017. The list of co-project Directorshas evolved and a core group has emerged tocontinue this initiative beyond the granting period. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?In Spring and Fall2018, the Ready to Grow team provided professional development opportunities to FSCJ faculty at two large School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (SOLAS) meetings, as well the College-wide Academic Plenary. These activites raised awareness of the technology, its use in an educational setting, and the availability of our pedagogical tools. Enumeration of STEM-only faculty exceeded 60 and 44 unduplicated attendees for both SOLAS meetings, respectively, in addition toother faculty affiliationsin attendance. In Fall 2018, FSCJ hosted a Science Symposium directed at Duval County Public School science teachers, of which approximately 85 attended. Drs. Fair and Perle presented relevant information about the Ready To Grow program to approximately 20 individual school teachers and lead many of these on a tour of our Aquaponics and Hydroponics Laboratory. In adddition, our project team worked in collaboration with the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) Extension Office to provide a series of professional development workshops for college wide STEM faculty and support staff. Workshop topics included the following: Hydroponic Hops, Disaster Preparedness for Agriculture, Tree and Plant Leaf Nutrients,Home Irrigation, Seed Starter/Starting Plants From Seeds. Subject matter experts from IFAS lead the workshop. The series of workshops were advertised and promoted through FSCJ's Training & Organizational Development Platform. These professional development workshops were offered in Spring 2018. Attendance at each workshop varied from 5 - 20. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The project team contributed many ad-hoc workshops to the general public to disseminate information about the Ready To Grow project and our various products as well as the advantages of small scale, community based Aquaponics and Hydroponics. Dr. Beall presented at the JWJ Strawberry Hydroponics Workshop, and Dr. Perle presented at the Willowbrach unit of the Jacksonville Public Library. Wehave also forged informal relationships with area aquaponic and hydroponic growers at Fresh Ministries/ Native Fresh in Jacksonville, FL and Atlantic Beach Urban Farms in Atlantic Beach, FL. In total, these various presentations were attended by over 100 Duval County citizens. In late February, 2019, Dr. Perle travelled to San Juan, Puerto Rico to give a workshop on hydroponics, aquaponics and the Ready To Grow program to aquatic biologyexperts and students at theAssociation for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography annual meeting (https://www.aslo.org/page/aslo-2019-aquatic-sciences-meeting). This hour long workshop invited attendees from around the worldto review the digital learning objects, share their experiences in the field and classroom, learn about our attempts to ameliorate urban deserts of Jacksonville FLand to communicate collaboratively with eachother. In late April, 2019, Dr. Perle travelled to the Plantation on Crystal River, which is located at 9301 West Fort Island Trail in Crystal River, FL, to raise awareness of the Ready to Grow program and advertise the availability of the Digital Learning Objects to aquatic biology science teachers within Florida at the Florida Marine Science Educators Association (FMSEA) Annual Meeting (https://sites.google.com/a/fmsea.org/welcome/events/conference). FMSEA is a subsidiary ofthe National Marine Science Educators Association (NMEA) and the National Educators Association (NEA).By providing a hands-on Exhibitor's learning table with a demostration hydroponics self-circluating "stacker" alongsidea computer with our DLOs available for review, this all-day event provided information to the 133 participantsin small group discussions. At each of these events and in our Laboratory space, colorful and informative bookmark sized flyers printed and funded by FSCJ have been passed out to interested individuals. We have depleted our first printing of 100 flyers and with our second printing continue this dissemination as we transition beyond the granting period. Finally, co-project director, Dr. Jeff Mans, has authored a publication targeted at the Universoty of Florida/ Institute for Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) Duval County extenstion newletter to disseminate information about our activities, products and continued efforts to educate local students and citizens. Staff turnover and administrative hurdlesat FSCJ and UF/IFAS have hindered actual publication of the content, but we are hopeful to have it accepted for publication in Spring 2020. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Digital Learning Objects During the reporting period, a varied group of contributorsdeveloped Aquaponics and Hydroponics focuseddigital learning objects (DLOs). The team consists of eightfull-time STEM faculty representing all five campus locations and severalfull-time Center for eLearning (CeL) support staff. Compensation for all contributors constituted the institutional match to awarded funds.Each contributing faculty member provided content on various STEM topics as they relate to aquaponics. The CeL contributors developed multimedia and web based designs and quality assurance. This project was completed in Fall 2018. It was implemented as a learning tool for students on a trial basis in Spring 2019. In an additional initiative, the DLO covering pH was used in the Outcomes Assessment component of FSCJ's Instititional Effectiveness accreditation focused efforts, wherein 134 students were exposed to and quizzed on the content. DLO websites are available at https://cel.fscj.edu/LOR/rtg/1000/1 which links to 13 chapters/units, consecutively numbered. They can also be found at an FSCJ Learning Commons hosted website:https://guides.fscj.edu/UrbanAgriculture/ScienceAquaponicswhich also containscontent relevant to our ongoing efforts. Hydroponics/Aquaponics Summer Academy Three Hydroponics/Aquaponics Summer Academieswere offered during the report period. The project team utilized marketing campaigns directed at secondary school teachers and targeted underrepresented high school students. The co-PI's developed the course content and hands-on aquaponics learning activitiesand in year three expanded to include content for students in the Life on Mars project through an FSCJ/Duval County Public School partnership called GEAR-UP, which continued into 2019. Participants split their time between in-class instruction and hands-on activities at the lab with pre and post meeting knowledge surveys.Academy participants also constructed individual hydroponic systems that they could take home for personal use after the course. A total of 86 students participated in the three years of summer workshops and another 37 particpated in GEAR-UP in 2019. The Jacksonville Science Festival. This city-wide event provides collaborative STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) events and programs open to K-12 students, teachers and parents. The mission is aimed at promoting equity and justice in education. Our Ready to Grow Grant Project Team displayed and presented both an aquaponics and hydroponic grow system to festival attendees in Spring 2018. Along with K-12 students, the festival is also open to teachers, experts, local businesses and community partners. The festival is a great place for student engagement and interaction with fact to face contact with industry professionals and community organizations. The event is held over three days, two of which are held at FSCJ's South Campus. The 2018 Jacksonville Science Festival was attended by over 30 high schools and organizations totaling over 2,000 participants; over 1000 of these were students enrolled in the Duval County Public School system, with more than 300 teachers also present. An unenumerated group of home schooled students and parents also attended. Hydroponics/Aquaponics Laboratory System The operation and development of a hydroponics/aquaponics laboratory system was continued during the report period. The facility is fully operational and includes a 58" diameter "fish farm" and grow beds with controlled lighting. The facility has notonly supported the third Hydroponics/Aquaponics Summer Academy but also support the development of the DLOs and was usedin Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 for classroom and/or laboratory studies. We nowhave a fully established living and viable hydroponics/aquaponics facility that provides opportunities to make laboratory-based teachable content accessible for wide a variety of classes currently taught at FSCJ within each STEM discipline on an as-needed basis. We have regularly hosted visitors of all kinds at this faciltity and have obtained 96 unique signatures from visitors in the local community or within FSCJ. More information and photographs can be found athttps://guides.fscj.edu/UrbanAgriculture.
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Websites
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Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
https://guides.fscj.edu/UrbanAgriculture
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Other
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Other
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
"Urban Agriculture at FSCJ." 2019. Mans, J, Perle, C. and D. Fair.
Publication TBD in "A New Leaf. UF/IFAS Duval County Extension Newsletter"
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Progress 09/01/17 to 08/31/18
Outputs
Target Audience:1) underrepresented high school students In Duval County, Fl 2) underrepresented college students in Jacksonville, FL 3) 9-12 public high school teachers in the Duval County Public Schools district 4) college faculty in the Florida State College system. Changes/Problems:This reporting period, (9/1/2017 to 8/31/2018) saw the passing of our Project Director, Dr. David Beall. Our team has worked diligently to honor and advance his efforts on providing value to USDA through the execution of grant outcomes. We have added a co-PI (Dr. Diane Fair) and will likely add another (Dr. Jeff Mans) to assist in the completion of deliverables. In addition, we have focused our curriculum based efforts on fitting the content to existing classes; for example, a non-majors introductory course will be developed instead of a Special Topics class, which was under-enrolled in Fall 2017. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Our project team continued working in collaboration with the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) Extension Office to providea series of professional development workshops for college wide STEM faculty and support staff. Workshop topicsincluded the following: - Hydroponic Hops - Disaster Preparedness for Agriculture - Tree and Plant Leaf Nutrients - Home Irrigation - Seed Starter - Starting Plants From Seeds. Subject matter expertsfrom IFASlead the workshop. The series of workshops wereadvertised and promoted through FSCJ's Training & Organizational Development Platform. These professional development workshops wereoffered in spring 2018. Other developments included presenting the program to all staff at several campus, college and schoolwide events, including the Academic Plenary at Convocation. These efforts reached a wide audience and generated a great deal of interest in the greater college community. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?In this reporting period, FSCJ disseminated relevant information to our stakeholders via the Jacksonville Science Festival which saw many of the areas K-12 students and teachers over a 2 day period. In addition, our relationships built with local k-12 educators has enabled us to advertise our program in classrooms throughout the county. Once the DLO projects is completed, we will continue out dissemination efforts. Key to this effort has been the development, maintenance and hosting by our College library system of a "LibGuide" (http://guides.fscj.edu/UrbanAgriculture) that contains information on all aspects of our program and is freely available on the internet. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?For the next and final reporting period, we will finalize the DLO project, test outtheir classroom utilization in a minimum of 2 courses, and continue dissemination efforts via the FSCJ Science Symposium on 19 Oct 2018. We expect to reach and train approximately50 FSCJstudents by the grant end date. We will summarize our development and pedagogical efforts and successes in a journal article, and travel within the state of Florida and nationally to advertise and popularize ourproducts (lab space, coursesand DLOs).
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
DLOs During the reporting period theassembled group of contributors developed or continuued to developour digital learning objects (DLOs). The team consists of full-time STEM faculty representing all five campus locations and full-time Center for eLearning (CeL) support staff. Each contributing faculty member provided content on various STEM topics. The CeL contributorsdevelopedmultimedia and web based designs and quality assurance. This project is on course to be completed in Fall 2018. Itwill be implemented on a trial basis in Fall 2019. Websites are available athttps://cel.fscj.edu/LOR/rtg/1000/1 which links to 13 chapters/units, consecutively. Hydroponics/Aquaponics Summer Academy A third Hydroponics/Aquaponics Summer Academy was offered during the report period. The project team utilized the similar marketing campaign as the first year and again targeted underrepresented high school students.The co-PI's utilized the course content and hands-on aquaponics learning activities used in the first summer academy and expanded to include more students in the Life on Mars project through an FSCJ/Duval County Public Schoolpartnership called GEAR-UP. Participants split their time between in-class instruction and hands-on activities at the lab. Academy participants also constructed individual hydroponic systems that they could take home for personal use. The Jacksonville Science Festival. This city wide event provides collaborative STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) events and programs open to k-12 students. The mission is aimed at promoting equity and justice in education. Our Ready to Grow Grant Project Team displayed and presented both an aquaponics and hydroponic grow system to festival attendees in Spring 2018. Along with K-12 students, the festival is also open to teachers, experts, local businesses and community partners. The festival is a great place for student engagement and interaction with fact to face contact with industry professionals and community organizations. The event is held over three days, two of which are held at FSCJ's South Campus. The 2018Jacksonville Science Festival was attended by over 30 high schools and organizations totaling over 2,000 participants. Hydroponics/Aquaponics Laboratory System Theoperation and development of a hydroponics/aquaponics laboratory system was continued during the report period. The facility is fully operational and includes a 58" diameter "fish farm" and grow beds with controlled lighting. The facility has not only supported the thirdHydroponics/Aquaponics Summer Academy but also support the development of the DLOs and will be used in Fall 2018 for classroom/laboratory studies. In this reporting period, we have more fully established a living and viable hydroponics/aquaponics facility that can provide opportunities to make laboratory-based teachable content accessible for wide a variety of classes currently taught at FSCJ within each STEM discipline on an as-needed basis.
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Progress 09/01/16 to 08/31/17
Outputs
Target Audience:1) underrepresented high school students In Duval County, Fl 2) underrepresented college students in Jacksonville, FL 3) 9-12 public high school teachers in the Duval County Public Schools district 4)college faculty in the Florida State College system. Changes/Problems:During the report period FSCJ and the project team requested and was approved for a 1-year no-cost extension. We amended the project scope of work to further support the SPECA project goals to: 1) enhance the quality of secondary and two-year postsecondary instruction in order to help meet current and future national food, agricultural, natural resources, and human (FANH) sciences workplace needs, and 2) increase the number and diversity of students who will pursue and complete a 2- or 4-year degree in food, agricultural, natural resources and human (FANH) science. The majority of the Aquaculture Technology technical certificate courses that FSCJ proposed to develop in this project were based on the College's plans to build an aquaponics facility which has not moved forward. Without this facility, these technical certificate courses cannot be taught. The proposed changes will help broaden the scale and increase the impact of this grant funding. Summer Academies for high school students that FSCJ offered in 2016 were so successful that the project team implemented an additional summer academy in 2017 but also increased participation from 60 high school students to 75. Our college wide professional development series for 50 STEM faculty members was increased to 100 and DLO's will be developed in place of the technical certificate. The DLO's will enhance urban agriculture and food science education of 300 undergraduates across multiple for-credit STEM disciplines. FSCJ and our project team suffered a major loss as PI Dr. David Beall passed away in early November. Dr. Christopher Perle has replaced Dr. Beall as Project Director, and Dr. Diane Fair has joined the initiative. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Our project team is working in collaboration with the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) Extension Office to develop and design content in a series of professional development workshops for college wide STEM faculty and support staff. Workshop topics will include the following: - Hydroponic Hops - Disaster Preparedness for Agriculture - Tree and Plant Leaf Nutrients - Home Irrigation - Seed Starter - Starting Plants From Seeds A subject matter expert from IFAS will lead the workshop. Co-Pi's will also be in attendance to support the IFAS instructor. Once developed, these workshops will be offered at all FSCJ campus locations. The series of workshops will be advertised and promoted through FSCJ's Training & Organizational Development Platform. These professional development workshops will be offered beginning spring 2018. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The Downtown Campus of FSCJ has developed and maintained a working relationship with several local high schools in the urban core. As a result of our summer camp recruitment efforts to local high schools we were able to create a framework for disseminating project information and learning opportunities to communities of interest. Additionally, FSCJ has partnered with Groundworks Jacksonville to host and support their program objectives. Groundworks is an EPA-funded trust that serves to engage and train inner-city youths in environmentally themed community improvement projects. The partnership enacted with Groundworks Jacksonville will be maintained throughout and beyond the term of this project. FSCJ disseminated relevant information to our stakeholders via the Jacksonville Science Festival which saw many of the areas K-12 students and teachers over a 2 day period. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Over the next year the project team will continue the development of the DLO's. They are slated for content completion in late spring of 2018. The project team will also kick-off the professional development series of workshops lead by the University of Florida's IFAS Extension Office. During the last year the project team experienced great success with conducting offsite food science career awareness workshops at various middle schools and high schools. The team will continue these efforts in the last year to reach our target goal of 300 secondary teachers and students. FSCJ faculty have alsosubmitted a proposal for an internal Strategic Planning On Line (SPOL) grant as bridge funding through 2018, 2019, and 2020. These funds will allow us to continue out education and outreach efforts beyond the Ready to Grow Grant period.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
DLO's During the reporting period the project team assembled a group of contributors for the development of our digital learning objects (DLO's). The DLO's will support FSCJ STEM curriculum, community outreach and education, and professional development activities relating to Urban Agriculture. The team consist of full-time STEM faculty representing all five campus locations and full-time Center for eLearning (CeL) support staff. Each contributing faculty member will provide content development on various STEM topics. The idea is to have this content be as widely applicable to each STEM discipline. The CeL contributors will support the content providers with the development of multimedia and web design, instructional design and quality assurance. This project is on course to be completed and implemented during the spring of 2018. Hydroponics/Aquaponics Summer Academy A second Hydroponics/Aquaponics Summer Academy was offered during the report period. The project team utilized the same marketing campaign as the first year and again targeted underrepresented high school students. The team conducted on-site school visits at various local high schools within the urban core to recruit summer academy participants. Participants from the previous summer academy shared personal testimonies of their experience at the summer academy with classmates. The co-PI's utilized the course content and hands-on aquaponics learning activities used in the first summer academy. Participants split their time between in-class instruction and hands-on activities at the lab. Academy participants also constructed individual hydroponic systems that they could take home for personal use. Food Science Career Awareness Workshops FSCJ and the Foundation Academy co-sponsor the Jacksonville Science Festival. This city wide event provides collaborative STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) events and programs open to k-12 students. The mission is aimed at promoting equity and justice in education. Our Ready to Grow Grant Project Team displayed and presented both an aquaponics and hydroponic grow system to festival attendees. Along with k-12 students, the festival is also open to teachers, experts, local businesses and community partners. The festival is a great place for student engagement and interaction with fact to face contact with industry professionals and community organizations. The event is held over three days, two of which are held at FSCJ's South Campus. The 2017 Jacksonville Science Festival was attended by over 30 high schools and organizations totaling over 2,000 participants. Hydroponics/Aquaponics Laboratory System The development of a hydroponics/aquaponics laboratory system was accomplished during the report period. The facility is fully operational and includes a 58" diameter "fish farm" and grow beds with controlled lighting. The facility has not only supported the second Hydroponics/Aquaponics Summer Academy but will also support the development of the DLO's. This development has created a space for students to engage in the development of living hydroponics systems and will also be used as a functioning system during the development of our DLO's. The overall goal is for a living and viable hydroponics/aquaponics facility that can provide opportunities to make laboratory-based teachable content accessible for wide a variety of classes currently taught at FSCJ within each STEM discipline on an as-needed basis. The hydroponic/aquaponics system will be used in a Special Topics course offered in the fall of 2017 on Hydroponics and Aquaponics Technology. Motivated students will work within a small hands-on environment as they learn about the basic skills needed to set-up, break down, operate and harvest a self-contained commercially available aquaponics system.
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Progress 09/01/15 to 08/31/16
Outputs
Target Audience:The Ready to Grow project's overall impact during the reporting period will ultimately enhance agricultural and aquaponics literacy within our four distinct target populations of underrepresented high school students, underrepresented college students, public high school teachers and state college faculty. We targeted and made contact through our recruitment efforts for our summer camp to multiple high schools in our urban core. Small local business owners, state college faculty, middle school and high school teachers attended two workshops on aquaponics presented by a subject matter expert from local commercial aquaponics farm in Hilliard, FL. Changes/Problems: Deliverables 2, 3 and 4 did not present any problems as they have either been successfully met or are on track for completion. However, we have encountered challenges while working towards deliverables 1 and 5. Deliverable 1 - Creating and delivering a technical certificate program in Aquaculture Technology for 40 undergraduate students including underrepresented students - offered via hybrid, face-to-face and online delivery methods to include portable digital learning objects (DLOs) and experiential learning The Certificate Program resides within an A.S.Agriculture Degree program. This fact was nottaken into consideration by the authors of the proposal. Whether the College wishes to pursuethe development of anA.S.Degree in Agriculture for which it does not have the expertise or staffremains unknown at this time. We are collaborating our efforts to revisit the aforementioned challenges to come up with a viable solution to achieve our proposed outcomes. Deliverable 5 - Developing aquaponics educational laboratory systems for FSCJ faculty, secondary school instructors and students to engage in applied science research The authors of the proposal were counting on the donation ofa facility and aquaponics system by the main business partner entity of this project. This did nothappen. The College solicited funds from the State Legislature for the facility but this effort wasnot funded. Currently, development of the educational laboratory system remains unfulfilled but we are considering other facility options to satisfy our programmatic and educational needs. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?In conjunction with our Continuing Education Division we offered two workshops on the basic fundamentals of aquaponics during the reporting period. The workshops were conducted by a subject matter expert from a local commercial aquaponics farm in Hilliard, FL. 75 participants attended our workshops that included FSCJ faculty and staff, small local business owners and teachers. The hands-on interactive workshops included topics such as the implementation of personal and commercial aquaponics systems, equipment usage and food safety. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The Downtown Campus of FSCJ has developed and maintained a working relationship with several local high schools in the urban core. As a result of our summer camp recruitment efforts to local high schools we were able to create a framework for disseminating project information and learning opportunities to communities of interest. Additionally, FSCJ has partnered with Groundworks Jacksonville to host and support their program objectives. Groundworks is an EPA-funded trust that serves to engage and train inner-city youths in environmentally themed community improvement projects. The partnership enacted with Groundworks Jacksonville will be maintained throughout and beyond the term of this project. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?During the next reporting period we will implement two courses that will run in the Fall of 2016 semester. Additional courses are planned for implementation in the Spring of 2017 once the College constructs the training facilities, procures and begins to operate the planned commercial-based aquaponics systems. Also, we plan to develop and migrate course content that is suitable to be offered in non-traditional formats such as online and hybrid. However, due to hands on nature of hydroponics, aquaponics and aquaculture instructional operations the conversion from traditional in-class to a non-traditional format is limited due to course content. More professional development workshops will be offered by our Continuing Education Division and outreach efforts will be ramped up for career awareness workshops for secondary teaches and students at our local high schools.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
During the reporting periodthe project team and faculty members had numerous meetings to discuss and review thecurriculum design and course content. Along with follow up meetings to update the team on pending curriculum issues the team also traveled to neighboring colleges, schools and farms that offered or participating in an existing aquaponics program. On our visit toIndian River State College (IRSC), weobserved the operation of their existing Certificate Program within the State College System. It was learned that the Certificate Program resides within an A.S. Agriculture Degree program. We also discovered that IRSC does not directly host the operation of the Aquaculture systems. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute on the Campus of Florida Atlantic University, which has astate of the artmulti-million dollar research facility, possesses both the equipment and instructional expertise to train students in Aquaculture and provides this function for IRSC students in the Aquaculture Certificate Program. IRSC provided numerous resources and assistance in the development of program courses and as a resultwe were able to develop 9 college courses toward a technical certificate program in AquacultureTechnology. A programexternal evaluator was secured during the reporting period. In our meetings we discussed the development of a Logic Model and a programtimeline. The development of these tools have guided the team in the implementation of our project goals. With the assistance of our College Multimedia and Marketing Department we were able to develop and implement a marketing campaign with program specifics on aquaponics/aquaculture to promote the grant initiative and our 2016 AquaponicsSummer Camp. Members from our project team also conducted on-site recruitment visits to several high schools in our targeted demographic area. The Co-PI's created hands-on aquap0nics learning activities for our two-week long summer camp that was not onlyeffective but complemented classroom learning objectives. Our summer camp participants included27 high school students from seven different high schools within the Jacksonville urban core. Summer camp participants learned various techniques of the hydroponic/aquaponics industry including the construction of personal hydroponicsystems, plantings, as well as the monitoring of chemical facilities that operate different types of hydroponic and aquaponicssystems. 24 of the 27 camp participants (89%) were members of target demographic populations for increased exposure and training in STEM fields. Upon completion of the camp students were provided grow systems to take home for personal use and continual growth of fresh greens for consumption by themselves,their families and friends.
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