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Dr. Martha Verghese, Dr. Jennifer Patterson, and graduate students from Alabama A&M University presented food science/food safety interactive workshops to high school students at four different area high schools during spring 2013.

Alabama A&M University hosted a one-day "Teaching Science through Food Science" workshop for Middle and High School Science Teachers on June 27, 2013, from 8:30-5:00 pm. Ten teachers attended the workshop and participated in the activities listed below. All teachers were given protocols for experiments to be used in their classrooms.

Presentations
1. Introduction to Food Science
2. Applications in Food Safety
3. Bacterial Toxins and Food Borne Illness
4. Introduction to HACCP

Labs and Hands-on activities
1. 5 Second Rule
2. Introduction to Serial Dilutions
3. Isolation and enumeration of microorganisms from ground beef
4. Gram staining and microscope skills
5. Ice cream --Food safety


 

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NC State partnered with North Carolina Central University's Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE) facility in Durham, NC, to present a norovirus learning module to 25 high school students on July 24, 2013.  The BRITE Futures program collaborates with educational leaders from universities and K-12 teachers to foster North Carolina's understanding of scientific concepts and skills. A second workshop was held on August 8, 2013, for 21 middle school and high school teachers.

2012 Food Safety Activities

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