By SARA EDMONDS
SKAGIT VALLEY HERALD
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. -- What started out as a simple survey of what would make life better for residents of La Casa San Jose apartments, turned into a youth program focusing on education and gardening. "Parents said they wanted a safe place where their kids could get help with their homework and have some recreational opportunities," said Leah VanderStoep, resident services coordinator for the Archdiocesan Housing Authority, which operates the 50-unit property for farm workers and their families. VanderStoep's survey led to a summer program that has blossomed - and with it a half-acre vegetable garden tended by the adult residents and their children, all of whom are Latino. Not only are the children gaining knowledge in gardening, the vegetables they plant are picked and taken home to be eaten. Read more>
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
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Where Will We Get New Scientists?
The question has been asked and 4-H is answering with a bold new Web program.
By: Willie Vogt
Published: Jun 17, 2009
Science education is an important issue for the United States these days. On international measures American students are falling behind and many, by the time they reach high school, have lost interest in science. But global competitiveness requires a focus on science and technology for the future. And the group stepping up to answer the challenge has a long history of providing experience-based education for science - look no further than 4-H.
Putting together their heads, hearts, hands and health, as it were, the organization and a range of supporters have come together in a new movement they're calling Generation: Ag. As part of the rollout of the new effort, the group held an event at the Danforth Plant Science Center last week in St. Louis, Mo.
A distinguished panel of speakers was on hand to characterize the challenge facing global agriculture. "We cannot overstate the case that to thrive in the global economy, our children and grandchildren need science and technology," says James Borel, group vice president-agriculture, DuPont.
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By: Willie Vogt
Published: Jun 17, 2009
Science education is an important issue for the United States these days. On international measures American students are falling behind and many, by the time they reach high school, have lost interest in science. But global competitiveness requires a focus on science and technology for the future. And the group stepping up to answer the challenge has a long history of providing experience-based education for science - look no further than 4-H.
Putting together their heads, hearts, hands and health, as it were, the organization and a range of supporters have come together in a new movement they're calling Generation: Ag. As part of the rollout of the new effort, the group held an event at the Danforth Plant Science Center last week in St. Louis, Mo.
A distinguished panel of speakers was on hand to characterize the challenge facing global agriculture. "We cannot overstate the case that to thrive in the global economy, our children and grandchildren need science and technology," says James Borel, group vice president-agriculture, DuPont.
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