Overview
The Cultivate ACCESS program has evolved over time. Currently we have funding from USDA-NIFA to support the Cultivate ACCESS to Data Science program. This program uses a mentoring model for high school students where they experience peer-peer interaction with college students. High school teachers can engage in co-hort activities to support their classroom teaching.
Cultivate ACCESS to Data Science in Agriculture uses an integrated systems thinking, virtual near-peer mentoring, and community influencing approach to empower youth with an expanded vision for data infused agricultural technologies as socially integrated tools for solving complex, ambiguous problems while encouraging student populations to consider agricultural and natural resources career paths.