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College FirstProgram Highlights |

Students spend half of each day in the summer working one-on-one with a staff member to learn more about specific career areas at the Garden as well as to gain job skills and work-place etiquette. Students last summer worked in the following areas:
Horticulture |
Education & Camp CBG |
Soil Ecology |
Trips and College Visits
Field trips are taken once a week in the summer, and guest speakers are invited to lecture in the Garden classrooms. Trips may be to tour a science lab at a university or to extend the field ecology labs beyond the Garden. Monthly school year meetings often involve visits to colleges, college fairs, financial aid workshops, and similar. Some recent trips:
Research Projects
Our program strives to ready each student for learning beyond high school as they prepare to enter college and the workforce. As part of that endeavor, we help students hone their research and presentation skills. During the summer, each student chooses a research project to work on and present to an audience, including Garden staff, family and friends, mentors, and community partners. This past summer, we encouraged students to research a topic related to their work with their mentor or Garden staff member. Students work with staff in horticulture, education, research, the library, and plant information as they research their topics. They have worked on a variety of projects: