[net-gold] INDOOR GARDENING : GARDENING : EDUCATION: K-12: Creating a 'Green Collar' Workforce
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- Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 11:08:56 -0400 (EDT)
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INDOOR GARDENING :
GARDENING :
EDUCATION: K-12:
Creating a 'Green Collar' Workforce
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Creating a 'Green Collar' Workforce
with $1.2M nsf grant, bc prof uses indoor gardening tech to teach urban
teens about social entrepreneurship
Updated: July 26, 2013
Office of News and Public Affairs
Boston College
http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/offices/pubaf/news/
2013-july-aug/green-collar-workforce.html
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CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. (July 2013) A team of Boston College faculty and
community-based organizations has been awarded a $1.2 million grant from
the National Science Foundation to foster entrepreneurship in urban high
school students by using innovative technologies to grow produce to sell
at neighborhood farmers markets.
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Boston Public School students will use innovative technologies such as
hydroponics, aquaponics, solar panels and windmills to power and
cultivate indoor fruit and vegetable gardens, then sell their produce at
neighborhood markets, according to Boston College Associate Professor of
Education G. Michael Barnett, the principal investigator on the project
titled Seeding the Future: Creating a Green Collar Workforce.
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Students and teachers will learn how to conduct scientific investigations
while developing small businesses initiatives to sell fresh produce in
their communities, said Barnett, a specialist in Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. Were making connections
between education, entrepreneurship and Bostons neighborhoods that not
only benefit students and teachers, but also contributes to a healthier
city as a whole.
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The project, funded through the NSFs Innovative Technology Experiences for
Students and Teachers (ITEST) program will work with approximately 1,000
students and 40 to 60 teachers at 20 schools, according to Barnett.
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Through its College Bound program, Barnett and BC have piloted similar
programs with high schools in the Boston neighborhoods of Brighton and
West Roxbury. With the latest grant, Barnett has been awarded $1.65
million in STEM education grants in the past year to collaborate with
science teachers, K-12 students, undergraduates and community groups.
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The ITEST grant will allow high school students to install solar and wind
technology in order to power indoor hydroponic and aquaponic gardening
technologies. After growing produce, the students will learn how to
operate and maintain a business as they market their goods at inner-city
farmers markets.
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Social entrepreneurship is the activity of identifying novel and unique
ways of addressing a pressing social need which is core to our program,
said Barnett. Plus in learning what it means to be an entrepreneur, these
students will be learning new skills they can apply to solving problems,
as well as creating their own jobs. Today, the ability to create your own
job is really the only kind of job security that remains in our economic
system.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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