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Seeds of Success is an interactive digital space dedicated to exploring STEM education, celebrating the powerful stories of migratory youth, and discovering how sustainable agriculture shapes our world. Designed specifically for students and families in Western North Carolina, this platform ensures engaging learning opportunities are always accessible, no matter where your journey takes you.
Between 2018 and 2022, an exciting partnership between UNC Asheville and the Buncombe County Schools Migrant Education Program (BCS MEP) sponsored by Burroughs Wellcome Fund brought a program called Science on the Move (SoTM) to life. Through summer camps and field trips, students dove headfirst into hands-on learning, exploring everything from ecology and chemistry to new media and physics.
Building on the success of Science on the Move (SoTM) in-person camps, this platform allows more students to access a learning design from migrant youth through an online interactive experience that connects sustainable agriculture and science experimentation.
Migratory farmworker families are the backbone of our food systems, working directly at the heart of agricultural production. We believe that firsthand experience is a superpower.
Seeds of Success centers on sustainable agriculture because it helps migrant youth see beyond the physical labor that is involved in farming. This is helping them to see beyond, but also to help them understand the science behind farming as an exciting science.
Science on the Move mentors who dedicated themselves to guiding educational advocacy for migrant youth to hands-on summer camps and field trips focused on biology, ecology, chemistry, physics, agriculture, and new media.
