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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 Agribusiness, engineering, chemistry Project Puente will coordinate six “Science Agriculture education and Leadership Nights” at local middle and high schools with Biotechnology, plant genetics, microbiology open houses. Science Nights expose students and 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 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.