Week 8
It is pretty insane that this summer internship is almost over already! I have spent the week mainly working on my final poster for the intern poster presentations. Frank sent me the tile drainage ...
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Week 8
GBL Week 6: DIY Plant Collars Lesson
This week, I turned my attention to tackling a common garden challenge: cutworms. If you’ve noticed your plants wilting, leaves developing holes, or even some plants mysteriously disappearing, you might be dealing with these ...
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Week 9: Shackelton Point Youth Open House
When Madison County 4-H reached out to me in May expressing interest in holding a youth open house at Shackelton Point this summer, I instantly shared this interest and decided to make it happen. ...
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Week 8
Welcome back! For week 8, I’ve been doing a lot of data analysis with descriptives and correlations! This has been a work in progress for a couple of weeks, but it has been nice ...
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Week 3: Fair Activity Planning
This week, I was able to finalize the activity I was planning for the Act for Change table at the Ulster County Fair. We decided to have fairgoers decorate a puzzle piece with things ...
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Weeks 1+2: Getting Started + Act for Change Curriculum Modifications
My first week was relatively short due to the 4th of July holiday, so I will be combining it with week 2. The first few days were mainly for me to get acclimated with ...
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Week 8: Greenhouse Gas Sampling
This week, I had a couple days where I was doing greenhouse gas sampling in the field for the Net Zero Project. The project measures greenhouse gases — including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous ...
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WEEK 3: 4-H Cultivating Community
We started out our week at the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence. While we were picking up litter, some of the students spoke about their weekend at the carnival and how they couldn’t even ...
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Weeks 3 & 4: The Fair and The Office
Hello, everyone! Week 3 and 4’s blog posts are coming a bit late… After a weekend away with friends, I headed to Ithaca on Monday the 15th to conduct a visit at the Oxley ...
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Week 8: ADKs Adventure and Tern Watching
Adirondacks Field Station This week I toured Cornell’s Little Moose Field Station located just outside of Old Forge with some other CBFS interns. The station is named after its nearest lake, Little Moose Lake, ...
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Week 7: Preparing for the CHE NYC Summer Presentation
Welcome back! This week, I focused on working on my summer presentation and wrapping up any last projects I started working on this summer. I finished creating the revised GLTTP evaluation on Qualtrics. Hopefully, ...
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Week 4
On this week, we delved into a rather interesting topic, housing, in particular housing disparities and the part racism has to do with the occurrence, and continued persistence of such an inequality. We started ...
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