Eduponics Institute USA
Technical, managerial, entrepreneurial
Training
Teaching hydroponic gardening

Essential Components

  • Food safety and handling
  • Hygiene
  • Career opportunities
  • Crop selection
  • Propagation
  • Transfer & replanting
  • Monitoring on site and remote
  • Related computer applications
  • Management reporting
  • Legal obligations
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    Organization

    In addition to proprietary content, our system is intended to allow a teacher from any institution to create courses. A course may include any number of lessons. Ask your representative to demonstrate.

    Opportunity

    Once published, contributing institutions and/or authors participate in revenue derived from their course(s).

    Operations

    It is recommended that each school should

      Schedule

    • Adapt calendars to recognize the growing environment, which typically will not conform to existing schedules
    • Develop optional short courses and seminars
    • Facilitate independent study and practicum

      Configure

    • Reconfigure classroom space for hydroponics instruction
    • Promote hands-on laboratory farming experience

      Promote

    • Select qualified students for follow-up courses on managerial and entrepreneurial aspects of the urban farming business
    • Combine training with an associated vegetable production enterprise (this might take the form of internal distribution, e.g., to an in-house cafeteria, or perhaps link your program to DECA)
    • Define terms of about 60 classroom hours plus lab time for a basic technical certificate; one or two semesters depending on school calendar and extra-curricular activity
    The early hygiene, safety and food handling components may qualify students for part or full time employment even before they complete the entire curriculum.
     
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