Week 1: 4-H Cultivating Community
My first week of the Cultivating Community program was very exciting. This year, the group is 12 teens ages 14-18. Four of them had participated in the program last year and all the others ...
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Week 1: 4-H Cultivating Community
Week Seven: Community Engagement at Elmhurst Hospital Greenmarket
This week, I had the exciting opportunity to visit the Elmhurst Hospital Farmers Market in Queens, NYC. My time there was divided between assisting with cooking demonstrations and conducting interviews about Integrated Pest Management ...
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Week 7: The Madison County Fair
This week I got the opportunity to captain a table on behalf of CBFS at the Madison County Fair in Brookfield. It was great to hear what attendees thought about Oneida Lake and to ...
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GBL Week 4: “Choose Your Tuesday” Activity Reflection
Reflecting on another fulfilling week at the Ithaca Community Gardens. Last week’s Choose Your Tuesday activity was a fantastic opportunity not only to share knowledge but also to connect with new faces within our ...
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Week 6
The North American Manure Expo is next week so I have been sending emails to all the volunteers making sure they are clear on when and where they are expected throughout the set up ...
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Week 3: Wild Weather and Bottomless Fertilizer
On Monday, we had field sampling for the Value of Manure project. We didn’t have to travel too far away, and this time there were five of us. However, that day was the peak ...
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Week 2: Western NY and Science Communication
This week, I joined a few members of the team for an overnight field work trip in Western New York. This field work was part of the Compaction Project, in which we used a ...
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Weeks 7 + 8
Community Engagement Welcome back! The week of the 4th was business as usual with some sampling in the field and time off for the holiday. The next week, we went over to Pratt’s Falls ...
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Week 5
Weeks 4-5 Hello! The past two weeks have been busy at CCE Tompkins County Family and Community development. Most of my work for the past two weeks centered around preparing the 2GenPsItWorks curriculum and ...
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Week 6: Week Updates
I’m back! This week wasn’t too eventful. I planned to conduct an interview with four prior participants of the curriculum to get their input and success stories on how the curriculum impacted their lives. ...
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Week 5: Wrapping things Up
Hey guys, I’m back! This week I finished working through my evaluation and curriculum updates. Thankfully, with EFNEP’s more developed evaluation, I was able to use it as a template to work on the ...
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Week 1: Training and Field Sampling
To start off the Cornell Cooperative Extension internship, I participated in an introduction and training session for all the interns on Monday. It was really nice to meet everyone and learn about where they ...
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