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If you've got a child between the ages of 14 and 18, the University of Connecticut has just the program for you.
The school's 4-H program has been awarded a three-year, $1 million grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture to create a new biotechnology career readiness program for teen 4-H members, reports the Hartford Courant.
The idea is to give them a taste of what it's like to work in the fields of food, agriculture, biotechnology, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math).
Participants will get to visit companies, explore careers in those fields, and help build a video game.
"Our project is propelling innovative biotechnology and STEM career work in our 4-H youth development program to the next level," says Jennifer Cushman, the principal investigator on the grant. Read the Entire Article
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