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Cornell University held their first high school teachers' workshop on October 22, 2011.  We Nine teachers from NY state attended the 6-hour course which included lectures, demos and hands-on sessions. For an agenda and learning outcomes, click here.  

Cornell University submitted have also submitted an abstract, entitled "Introducing Food Safety Investigation in the Science Classroom" and presented two back-to-back sessions at the 2011 Science Teachers Association of New York State (STANYS) conference .The Food and Nutritional Sciences Program at NCA&TSU held a one day six hour introductory food science/food safety hands-on preconference on Monday, July 25, 2011 from 9:00am-3:00 pm as part of the North Carolina Family and Consumer Sciences Education Summer Conference.  11 local high school teachers attended this conference in which the following presentations were given:  Introduction to Food Science and Technology, Introduction to Food Microbiology and Food Safety, Food Contamination, Chemical Contaminants in Food, Food Quality Control-HACCP, Food Labeling:  An Important Challenge in Food Safety.  The presentations can be viewed here.  For more information, contact Judith C. Simon, Family and Consumer Sciences Education, Department of Public Instruction. 919.414.1949 (cell) Image Removedon November 7, 2011.