Achievement

GLOBES trainee Jessica Mikels-Carrasco is planting the seeds of science with minority children from racially and economically diverse neighborhoods in the City of South Bend. Launched in the summer of 2009 as a GLOBES real world practicum project with a focus on involving urban youth with community garden and nature projects, Mikels has refocused the project as a neighborhood ecology program called SEEDS (Science and Ecology Education Development Series) that links minority youths with nature in their own backyards. Working in collaboration with The Center for a Sustainable Future at Indiana University, South Bend, underrepresented minority school age children are exposed to future academic and career opportunities in STEM (sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. The program involves several GLOBES trainees as volunteers and looks toward expansion into other South Bend neighborhoods.