This week, the interns reconvene after their weekend adventures and finish their last week at Penn State. They meet with some familiar faces, some new faces, and also make a breakthrough on the app. (This episode happened the week of July 21st-27th).
In this month’s episode, Adam takes us through the process of applying the final fertilizer treatments to the Bear Island Flint Corn. Click on the photo below to see this month’s video.
2018-2019 SDI Americorps Vista Julia Wiebe (aka Captain Compost) takes us through the composting program here at College of Menominee Nation and answers some of our composting questions. Click the photo below to watch the video (Youtube). Video: Jasmine Neosh Music: “Sunny” by bensound (CC)
In this video, Adam gives us an update on the progress of the corn and gives us an overall idea of what you’d have to do to maintain a research garden.
by Marissa Vele On August 1st the Sustainability Leadership Cohort (SLC) got to show off all of their hard work from this summer at a community STEM Family Night. The event was well attended from the community. Guests were introduced to the SLC program and were fed delicious food before they had the opportunity to…
This week, the ViFF interns try to remember their first week at Penn State. They can’t tell what day they happened to meet up with Amy and Casey, if they went to the Dreamery, or where Jacob took them on their tour of the campus. Watch this week’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia inspired vlog…
This week, the interns went off to Menominee, Michigan, with the Sustainable Leadership Cohort to visit some important locations to the Menominee people, including the site where Aquila resources is trying to build the Back 40 Mine. The team also interviewed Jeff Grignon at Noseum Lake about the 2007 tornado, making that their second and…
This week, Adam applies fish emulsion to the research garden. Why would he do that? Find out on this special two-part episode of Adam’s Corn(er)! Part two can be found here: Part 2
Wednesday, July 10, 2019 By Deidre Caldwell Today the SLC students had fun with our Stem Collaborator Jennifer Morris. We went over to the CMN Campus Commons where the students were able to explore different STEM activities. The Stem activities were: 1. Engineering Connection – The Students were given cards with different kinds of…
By Kayla Cleveland Upon starting the Phenology Internship, it was really hard to tell a group of people what phenology is and the important role it plays within the Menominee Nation. The computer research that I had done to mentally prepare myself for Earth Day at the College of Menominee Nation was not enough and…