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.
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Aug 06
SLC Family Night!
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 …
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Aug 01
It’s Always Sunny in State College: ViFF Season 2, Vlog 6
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 …
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Jul 25
Field Trips, Interviews and Shipping Out: ViFF Season 2, B/Vlog 5
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 …
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Jul 19
Adam’s Corn(er) Episode 3: Fun with Fish Fertilizer!
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
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Jul 18
SLC Week in Review: Bridge-Building and Water Teachings
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 …
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Jul 17
Planting the Seed: SDI Phenology Team Shares Their Knowledge
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 …
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Jul 16
Back to the Lab: ViFF Season 2, Ep 4
In this shortened week, the interns did some lab work. The team was split up and took on individual projects in CMN’s Mac Lab. Evelynn and Amy compiled a list of 50 identified plants from the 360 locations and their uses. Matthew listened back to the audio of last week’s interview and transcribed what everyone …
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Jul 15
Where It All Began: SLC trip to Marinette
Posoh! On July 8th, the SLC students had the opportunity to travel up to the mouth of the bay where the Menominee People originally started in Marinette, Wisconsin for the No Back 40 Mine project. We stopped at seven known locations of garden beds, caches (storage of food for winter), burial mounds, dug up …
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