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Internships Bring Together Students from Immokalee, Naples
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wenty-five students from Immokalee and Naples are completing internships this month with the Inaugural Collier County Taste of Immokalee Summer Internship program. This is the first year that students from outside of Immokalee have been invited to apply to the program. The interns have spent two days each week at the Immokalee Boys and Girls Club and two days per week at the Greater Naples YMCA, and are involved in the daily operation of the Taste of Immokalee company, and the creation a hydroponic garden on the YMCA campus. “This is an opportunity to help students become leaders. Correction, we are leaders,” intern Myra Jaimes recently told the Collier County Board of County Commissioners. “We have learned critical thinking and interpersonal skills that the fields couldn’t teach us. We are living and learning how to analyze competitors and study the marketplace.” Jaimes is the secretary of the Junior Taste of Immokalee board of directors and a junior at FGCU. For additional information, visit www.greaternaplesymca.org/ internship.html.
Imaginarium, Museum Merger Creates History & Science Center
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he Southwest Florida Museum of History left its old home in a railroad depot recently to move in with what used to be known as the Imaginarium Science Center. The new IMAG History & Science Center merges the vision of the two groups to engage visitors in the exploration of science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), and history with an emphasis on Southwest Florida. To highlight the new combination of subjects, IMAG recently began offering “Science Saturday” and “History Saturday” monthly on the first and third Saturdays, respectively. Interactive activities occur in designated stations throughout the center between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. and are included with admission. To date, science activities have included earth and space science demonstrations exploring gravity and clouds, and more recently ex-
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