The Wyoming Innovation Partnership (WIP) has played a crucial role in supporting our Facility. By providing funding for advanced phenotyping instrumentation (Phase I) and modern CEA hydroponic system (Phase II) our facility has been logistically pivotal in the workforce development and student trainings for WIP. These investments have not only strengthened our operational capabilities but have also start developing a skilled workforce essential for the sustainability of our facility (student workers) and extramural relationships (businesses and other institutions).
For more information about WIP, please visit their partnership page.
If you want to learn more about the successful AGRI-4990 class, you can access this UW News page.
In the summer of 2024, the newly developed class AGRI-4990 "Principles of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) and internship" has seen students, faculties, and staff highly involved with teaching and research activities in our spaces.
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| The class had a common lab where students learned how to take care of vertical tower hydroponic systems throughout the production cycle. Here Nicole Klosterman and James Villasenor are transplanting seedlings onto the towers and taking care of the systems. | |
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| Students were exposed to different types of growing systems for CEA. | |
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| The class was involved in every steps of the production cycle, here students are planting their experiment. | |
Our personnel participated to the Plenty/UW CEA conference at UW. Our student technicians, Isaiah Spiegelberg and Jade Whiting, had the opportunity to share their successful stories in CEA through the WIP program. Isaiah and Jade have been supported by WIP for taking the online CEA course "AdvanCEA" and they have participated to the CEA Short Course at University of Arizona in March 2024. Currently, they are working with a paid internship with Papa Joe's Produce in Sheridan, Wyoming, supported by the Department of Workforce Development.
