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USDA/NIFA
Project Puente
Looking to the Future
In addition to the programs
mentioned inside, Project
Puente bridges K-16 education
and bio-industry careers to foster collaboration between high
schools, colleges, university,
December 15,
2015
Summary of Grant
Activities
and industry. This collaboration provides a roadmap to
prosperity for students and
their rural communities.
CENTRAL ARIZONA COLLEGE
Janice Pratt, Project Director
Marshall Logvin, USDA/NIFA Grant Coordinator
17945 Regent Dr,.
Maricopa, AZ 85138
Marshall: (520) 494-6420
Project Puente Grant Activities
Summer Internships
Project Puente has forty summer internship positions for high school and college students in 2016.
Sponsors include: University of Arizona Maricopa
Agricultural Center, UA Maricopa Cooperative
Extension, USDA/ARS ALARC, City of Phoenix
Parks and Recreation Rio6 Salado Reclamation
Area, Bridgestone USA, Pan Aridus, and Global
Water.
Internship topics include:
Science Fairs
Project Puente will assist schools that have science
fairs and sponsor schools that would like them.
The goal is to sponsor 200 or more students in
local, regional and national science fairs over
three years.
Science Nights
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Agribusiness, engineering, chemistry
Project Puente will coordinate six “Science
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Agriculture education and Leadership
Nights” at local middle and high schools with
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Biotechnology, plant genetics, microbiology
open houses. Science Nights expose students and
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Climate change, urban horticulture
parents to STEM academic programs and careers

Crop and soil science, entomology
that begins with CTE pathways in high school
Project Puente and the University of Arizona
Ecology, environmental water quality
and continues to college and bio-industry careers.
Maricopa Agricultural Center will sponsor six
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Summer interns will also be enrolled in Central
Arizona College’s, Agriculture Internship course.
They will receive a tuition scholarship and3 credit
hours upon completion of the eight week internship program.
Teacher workshops
teacher workshops over the three years of the
USDA/NIFA Grant, two per year for K-12 and
college teachers. The workshops are free and
they will provide hands-on inter-disciplinary lab
and field modules that can be replicated in K-16
classrooms in career areas such as: biotechnology,
water quality, sustainability, and plant tissue culturing just to name a few.