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FY2010 Summer Training Program Pilot The Metro Atlanta Urban Farm, College Park, GA 30337 Total Hours: 320
You donations helped NSYEP secure ten students from the Mayor’s Youth Program and Georgia Teen Work Programs that had expressed an interest in attaining a S.T.E.M.- based career. Students ranged from ages 13- 17 and were in the 9th-12th grades. Students will be attending Douglass, Therrell, Maynard Jackson, Mays, and Tri-Cities High Schools in the Fall 2010.
The students’ career aspirations included: civil, chemical, mechanical and computer engineering, nursing, forensic science and professional sports. The students kept written journals and photographs of all of their interactions and activities were take (see NSYEP website) Three of the ten students were motivated to begin or take over the maintenance of their gardens at their own homes.