Open AccessFood4Thought Provides Students STEM Opportunities in Food Science
Author(s) -
Wagner Mary K.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of food science education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.271
H-Index - 13
ISSN - 1541-4329
DOI - 10.1111/1541-4329.12054
Subject(s) - outreach , workforce , economic shortage , political science , competition (biology) , public relations , service (business) , science education , medical education , marketing , business , medicine , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics) , law , biology
Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) members have always been passionate about the food science profession. There is never a shortage of volunteers to participate in the “Find a Food Scientist” program, judge a student competition, or visit a local school’s career day. In 2006, IFT and Feeding Tomorrow, the Foundation of the IFT, commissioned an initiative with Discovery Education to provide food science multimedia toolkits to every high school in the United States. These toolkits “The Science and Scientists behind the Food” provided career information, experiment guides and videos to bring the field of food science to life for educators and students. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive, and is one of many initiatives driving the recent enrollment increases that we have seen within food science departments in the United States. (Discovery Education Science Resources).