{"id":415,"date":"2015-09-14T00:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T04:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iuse.bc.edu\/?p=415"},"modified":"2015-09-14T00:30:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T04:30:20","slug":"american-hydroponics-donates-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/iuse-import-test\/2015\/09\/14\/american-hydroponics-donates-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"American Hydroponics Donates Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\"540582_359696200805296_1502848763_n\"<\/a>merican Hydroponics (AmHydro) has donated $15,000 worth of hydroponic equipment to Boston College\u2019s Lynch School of Education to help facilitate a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) education grant.<\/p>\n

This grant will allow education professor Mike Barnett to add more teachers to his interdisciplinary education program that uses hydroponics to teach science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects using agriculture. Professor Barnett also works directly with inner city children teaching STEM subjects as well as problem solving, marketing, and biology.<\/p>\n

When asked why he chose to work with American Hydroponics Mike Barnett said the following, \u201cI have worked with AmHydro in the past, when I approached them about this project I was trying to fill a need. In order to apply for a grant from the USDA I needed a corporate partner to provide a certain percentage of matching funds. That is where American Hydroponics stepped up and said \u2018We can do that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

American Hydroponics Chief Technical Officer, Scott Kornberg<\/a>, fully supports BC\u2019s program. \u201cAt American Hydroponics we are passionate about education. We work hard to educate our growers to make them as successful as possible. When Mr. Barnett approached us about educating the next generation of growers and inspiring young people to love science, we were happy to help.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the world\u2019s population continues to grow, our current system of crop production will not be able to keep up with demand. It is estimated that by the middle of this century almost 9 billion people will inhabit planet Earth. \u201cHydroponics is farming for the 21st century,\u201d said Barnett. \u201cGetting as many urban youth excited about science and problem solving is the goal, and hydroponics provides that mechanism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The USDA grant will allow Mr. Barnett\u2019s program to add 90 more teachers to the program giving them a total of roughly 120 teachers using hydroponics in the classroom. \u201cWhile we do supply materials to teachers, we also write curriculums and lesson plans to help teachers integrate these systems into their classrooms. In many cases teachers are teaching environmental science, biology, chemistry, they don\u2019t specifically teach a hydroponics class.\u201d<\/p>\n

American Hydroponics has also partnered with Mike Barnett on a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for $1.2 million. \u201cAmerican Hydroponics makes things as affordable as they can for us, so we can reach as many teachers as possible through their educational discounts,\u201d remarked Barnett. \u201cIt\u2019s all about getting inner city kids excited about science, and hydroponics is the way to do it. AmHydro has helped us out with thinking thorough the design of our systems, different types of materials and equipment we can use, and general advice. They were one of the first folks to get excited about the project, and have been providing the core components for the systems we use for the past 2-3 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American Hydroponics (AmHydro) has donated $15,000 worth of hydroponic equipment to Boston College\u2019s Lynch School of Education to help facilitate a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) education grant. This grant will allow education professor Mike Barnett to add more teachers to his interdisciplinary education program that uses hydroponics to teach science, technology, engineering and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/iuse-import-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/iuse-import-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/iuse-import-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/iuse-import-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/iuse-import-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/iuse-import-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/iuse-import-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/iuse-import-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/iuse-import-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}