Getting a Head Start on Conservation

The Natural Resources Conservation Academy is an outreach program designed to connect teens to conservation biology and get them into the STEM pipeline.

Vanesa Guadalupe, left, of Two Rivers High School in Hartford, now a UConn undergraduate, and Grace Herde of Hosatonic Valley Regional High School, survey insects in the UConn Forest during Biodiversity in the Night activities, part of the NRCA's Conservation Ambassador Program. (NRCA Staff/UConn Photo)

The Natural Resources Conservation Academy is an outreach program designed to connect teens to conservation biology and get them into the STEM pipeline. (NRCA Staff/UConn Photo)

 

The Natural Resources Conservation Academy is an outreach program in the College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources that is designed to connect teens to conservation biology and get them into the STEM pipeline.