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During the NCA&TSU Food and Nutritional Sciences summer conference (described below under "Aim 1 Completed Efforts"),  Salam Ibrahim identified one school per district to host the one day Food Technology/Food Safety training to raise the awareness of the need for better staff development in these areas based on feedback from teachers.  Salam will schedule these trainings with these sites/teachers.  Judy Simon will help to market and advertise the trainings over the Foods II Food Technology Moodle and the FACS e-group.  There will be two trainings every  Fall and every Spring semester (2012-2016).

Salam will, with the feedback from teachers, plan and deliver a five day workshop (DATE TBD) on food science/food technology/food safety which will substitute for the three hour licensure requirement. This activity will be conducted during 2012-2013 academic year.

Cornell University held their first high school teachers' workshop on October 22, 2011. 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 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 on November 7, 2011.

Cornell University held a workshop session for the Cornell Institute of Biology Teachers on January 14, 2012.  Twenty teachers attended this one-hour session, which involved an interactive demonstration of investigating a foodborne illness outbreak.