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North Carolina A&T State University is hosting a four-week Research Apprenticeship Program (RAP) for current or rising high school juniors and seniors. The main objective of this program is to provide first-hand experience in several research projects. This year a total of five students are participating in the food microbiology and safety laboratory at North Carolina A &T State University, and conducting the following projects. The North Carolina A&T State University food microbiology and safety laboratory will conduct two-one day workshops (Details will be posted summer 2013) on food safety as part of the summer agricultural research program at North Carolina A&T State University. This program will be taught by the graduate students in food and nutritional science; the audience for these workshops will be high school students. For more details, check with Rabin Gyawali at rabingyawali@hotmail.com. Materials will be posted here and can be requested from Salam A. Ibrahim at ibrah001@ncat.edu. This coming spring, the food microbiology and safety laboratory will conduct several seminars/workshops related to food defense/ food safety and HACCP. These are hands-on sessions. High school teachers and students will attend the activities. The activities will be conducted during the homecoming for North Carolina A&T State University. For more details, check with Rabin Gyawali at rabingyawali@hotmail.com. The materials will be posted soon and can be requested from Salam A. Ibrahim. Salam A. Ibrahim at North Carolina A&T Sate University was part of a collaborative effort to develop a food technology class that is currently being taught by high school teachers. Materials from this course are used to train high school teachers who will be implementing the course. Additionally, members of the NCA&T food microbiology and safety laboratory utilize materials from this course for student workshops. |
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Cornell University is excited to host the 4-H Career Explorations Food Science: DNA Fingerprinting summer camp again in 2013. This 2.5 day workshop for high school students is scheduled for June 25-27 on the Cornell Campus. To register, go to http://nys4h.cce.cornell.edu/events/Pages/CareerEx.aspx. Also, we are pleased to once again partner with 4-H Camp Bristol Hills to offer a week long food science and food safety curriculum to a diverse group of K-12 summer campers. This event will be held at 4-H Camp Bristol Hills in Bristol, NY July 7-12. To register, go to http://www.4-hcampbristolhills.org/summercamp.html. |
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We are pleased to announce that our symposium proposal, "Food Safety Education: The value of K-12 education and outreach to advancing the development of future food safety leaders," has been approved by the Program Committee for further development for theat the 2013 Annual Meeting of the International Association for Food Protection. The meeting will be was held in Charlotte, North Carolina from July 18-31, 2013. Abstract: Foodborne illnesses continue to pose a substantial public health burden in the United States and around the world. One persistent contributing problem is a relatively poor level of food safety "knowledge" in the population at-large. To address this, there is a clear need to expand existing food safety education and awareness programs, and to establish new ones. However, this cannot be done without a critical mass of food safety professionals. Unfortunately, career and educational opportunities in food safety are largely unrecognized by K-12 students, meaning that many students come to food safety relatively late in their academic training. The purpose of this symposium is to highlight innovative approaches to engaging future food safety professionals by targeting K-12 populations. The symposium will kick off with four presentations on different strategies used recently to reach this important pool of future food safety professionals followed by a presentation describing USDA-NIFA priorities for food safety outreach and conclude with a roundtable discussion. Attendees will come away with an understanding of why it is important to include food safety education in K-12 curricula and how engaging K-12 students can help grow the population of food safety professionals around the world. More details will be provided after the IAFP Program Committee meeting in February 2013. |
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Cornell University hosted the 4-H Career Explorations Food Science: DNA Fingerprinting again this past summer. This 2.5 day workshop for high school students was held June 25-27, 2013 on the Cornell Campus. |
Cornell Food Science at the Beverly J. Martin Elementary School Science Fair: Graduate students and staff from Cornell University's Department of Food Science hosted a booth for the science fair at an Ithaca, NY elementary school on February 1st, 2013. Cornell University's Food Science booth engaged approximately 300 students from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade in interactive educational activities focusing on food safety and food science. The Cornell University Food Safety Laboratory partnered with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ontario County and 4-H Camp Bristol Hills to provide week long food science and food safety program as part of the 4-H Camp Bristol Hills during summer 2013. Educational activities focused on the nature of science, dairy product development, and a simulated outbreak investigation. The 4-H Food Science Camp provided over 16 hours of hands-on educational activities in the areas of chemistry, biology, microbiology, and geographic information systems and landscape ecology. A university professor and graduate student engaged campers in experiments and case studies where they discovered, modeled, and compared the chemical interactions between ingredients in ice cream, butter and cheese; reconstructed the structure of DNA; practiced the steps of an outbreak investigation during a mock "food-borne disease outbreak;" and developed solutions to minimize the risk of future outbreaks. |
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The food microbiology and safety laboratory at North Carolina A&T State University conducted two Food Safety and Technology workshops at Southern Lee High School (2301 Tramway road, Sanford, NC 27332) on May 29th, 2013. Please contact Salam Ibrahim for more information. The following presentations were given:
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North Carolina A&T State University held a 3 hour food safety workshop for Lincoln Academy middle school students on February 21st, 2013. The following presentations were given: Salam Ibrahim: Introduction Bernice Karlton-Senaye: How Do You Keep Food Safe? Saeed Hayek: Why Food Safety? Rabin Hyawali: Demonstrations of Microbiology (food quality)
The food microbiology and safety laboratory at North Carolina A&T State University conducted two Food Safety and Biotechnology workshops at Guilford Middle School on May 17th, 2013. The following gave presentations:
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Alabama A&M University hosted hands-on workshops for 93 Students (elementary, middle and high school) the afternoon of June 20th, 2013. These workshops focused on Food Science and the importance of food safety. Alabama A&M University hosted a 4-week (June 1-July 3rd) food science summer program during 2013 for 30 high school students (9-12 grades). The program emphasized food microbiology and safety. Students were given hands-on experience in conducting proper serial dilutions, plating techniques, and enumeration of microorganisms in foods. Students (in groups) completed projects and gave presentations on summer research entitled "Microbiological profile of fresh produce from various retail stores." Examples of specific activities are listed below. Presentations
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