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UW CEA Center Outreach 2025 - 2026 School Year Events List

Since its launch in 2024, the interdisciplinary course CEA Principles and Applications (AGRI 4990), conceived as a deliverable of the WIP program, has become a flagship workforce-development activity of the CEA Network. In July 2025, the course graduated its second cohort of 10 “innovators”—eight UW students, one student from Central Wyoming College, and one from Sheridan College—for an intensive eight-week experience combining lectures, hands-on activities, and direct engagement with CEA industry professionals. Eight REU students also participated in the lectures, further expanding the course’s reach. The course continued to grow in Summer 2026, with another successful cohort of 10 UW graduate and undergraduate students. Students gained hands-on access to the newly installed walk-in growth chambers at the PGPF. Michael Baldwin, Research Assistant and PGPF Facility Manager, developed and coordinated laboratory activities that incorporated an indoor hydroponic growing system donated by Crop King. Students gained practical experience in crop production, sensor development, and environmental control, while a Conviron/Argus representative provided an in-person demonstration and discussion on growth-chamber technology as part of the WIP lecture series. Across its three years of delivery, AGRI 4990 has engaged 40 students, approximately 11 CEA companies, two community college instructors—from Central Wyoming College and Santa Fe Community College in New Mexico—and 14 UW instructors representing the College of Engineering, College of Business, School of Computing, and CALSNR.

Students holding bags of veggies  Students and teacher smiling among plants Two researchers next to plants in the CEA Researchers in lab with gloves on Researchers looking at vertical growing towers behind glass Researchers looking at plants and vertical growing wall Researcher with clipboard and paper with two other people looking at plants researchers looking at equipment Four students looking at plants in the CEA


STEM-ology CEA Week

Children looking at plants Children wokring on an activity at tables Children and parents on floor with sunflowers Children and parents listening to presenter People looking at Plant Facility Researcher presenting to seniors Seniors looking at facility Parents and toddlers looking at vertical growing towers Teacher teaching children sitting on floor Teacher teaching children in plant facility Toddlers looking at plants Parents and toddlers with hands out


STEM Days

  • February 26th, 2026  |  296 students total  |  Indian Paintbrush Elementary, Laramie WY
  • March 27th, 2026  |  265 students total  |  Paintbrush Elementary, Gillette WY
  • April 3rd, 2026  |  389 Students total  |  Slade Elementary, Laramie WY
  • May 14th, 2026  |  275 students total  |  Glenn Livingston Elementary, Cody WY
  • Hosted by Science Initiative Roadshow
  • Canva Presentation Link:https://canva.link/pfwx5hu3mtjtc4g 

University of Wyoming CEA Network Meeting 

  • March 5th, 2026

Science Initiative Symposium

Youth in STEM Event 

  • May 19th 2026
  • 415 total students on campus, roughly 50 students total at our sessions
  • Hosted by Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium
  • Presentation, Microgreens Taste Testing with Handout, PGPF Tour 
  • Canva Presentation Link: https://canva.link/vii5ko54d54bsfy 
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