{"id":32588,"date":"2015-03-10T08:13:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T18:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=32588"},"modified":"2021-09-27T14:56:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T00:56:45","slug":"hawaii-agdiscovery-summer-program-registration-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/03\/10\/hawaii-agdiscovery-summer-program-registration-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> AgDiscovery summer program registration open"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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AgDiscovery students work in a loʻi<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources<\/a> (CTAHR<\/abbr>) will be hosting the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> AgDiscovery Program, July 12&#8211, 2015, for students 14 to 17 years old. This unique summer program gives its teenaged participants a first-hand look at the many career paths open to them in agriculture and natural resource management, including plant and animal sciences, wildlife management and agribusiness. Deadline application is Friday, March 20, 2015.<\/p>\n

Every summer, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service<\/a> partners with selected universities and colleges, including CTAHR<\/abbr>, to deliver the AgDiscovery programs at different locations throughout the country. The program allows students to live on a college campus and learn about agriculture and related fields from professors, scientists and professionals.<\/p>\n

Students chosen to participate in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> AgDiscovery Program will gain life-changing experiences through hands-on laboratories, workshops, field trips and character- and team-building activities. Students in past years have learned to perform water-quality analysis, use GPS<\/abbr> devices, identify microorganisms under the microscope, extract DNA<\/abbr>, color fabric using natural dyes and tend taro in loʻi<\/span>. In addition to learning by doing, participants get to network with professionals across the agricultural spectrum and observe careers in ag and natural resources management.<\/p>\n

CTAHR<\/abbr>’s educators and researchers open their labs and experiment stations to the students and APHIS<\/abbr> sends professionals from its plant protection and quarantine, veterinary services, biotechnology regulatory services and wildlife services branches. Other government agencies represented include the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Department of Agriculture<\/a> and the Honolulu Zoo<\/a>. From the private sector come professionals from Kualoa Ranch<\/a>, Mari’s Garden<\/a>, Pioneer and more.<\/p>\n

To learn more about this program or to apply for the 2015 Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> AgDiscovery Program at UH<\/abbr> Mānoa, please visit the www.aphis.usda.gov\/agdiscovery<\/a> and click on the link for the AgDiscovery Program, or contact Charles Kinoshita at (808) 956-6997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teens in the UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa AgDiscovery Program get first-hand look at career paths in agriculture and natural resource management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[222,212,9],"class_list":["post-32588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-agriculture","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32588"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148731,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32588\/revisions\/148731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}