| High schools teaching agriscience get $25,000 grant June
4, 2004 The Rhode Island Rural Development Council, a USDA Rural Development State Council in partnership with lifeedu, a non-profit educational organization affiliated with the University of Rhode Island recieved a $25,000 grant from the Rhode Island School to Career office, Region II, and additional funding from Hybrigene Inc., an agriscience lab in South Kingstown, to conduct a high school agriscience training initiative at Hybrigene, Inc. Nineteen high school students from South Kingstown, Chariho Regional, Exeter/West Greenwich Regional and Pontagansett school districts and 10 science teachers from those systems have participated in the agriscience program. The agriscience program is designed to engage the interests of high school students in research prior to their college experience in hopes that they may study the field in college. Published
06/04/2004 |
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