Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County (BGCPC) receives award from NASA’s Team II program to promote science, technology, engineering, and math learning. With the hope that this program will inspire the next generation of explorers.
The $175,000 grant will go to funding “The Indoor Farming Innovation Zone (IFIZ) Remote Learning Project”. It will serve middle and high school youth in southern Colorado, and comes in partnership with the non-profit education organization The I Will Projects.
IFIZ Remote Learning Project has the overarching goal to give access to and awareness of innovative indoor food production techniques (hydroponics, aquaponics), experimental science methods, environmental sustainability issues and agricultural literacy by distributing comprehensive hands-on activity kits and delivering online instruction.
“NASA recognizes how creative museums, libraries, and other out-of-school learning environments have been in continuing to deliver STEM learning during the COVID-19 closures,” said Mike Kincaid, associate administrator for NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement. “The selected projects reflect that range of creativity in bringing meaningful NASA content and STEM engagement opportunities to students nationwide.”
All youth participants will receive an in-home kit designed and curated by The I Will Project’s Education Team Youth will emulate experiments that show how fresh food can be grown in space for astronauts, conduct research and experiments on seed varieties, growing methods, water quality, carry out data collection, and more.
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