Central Carolina Community College is in partnership with NC State University and the North Carolina Extension Service in Lee County to facilitate the YEA: Advancing Agriscience Juntos Program at Lee County High School.

The NCSU Juntos program received a $7.8 million grant to improve science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) participation, persistence, and career readiness among youth in the states of North Carolina and Washington. The grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through the Youth Innovators Empowering Agriculture Across America program.

The grant funds a five-year project that draws from pedagogy in behavioral science theory and evidence-based practice used in the Juntos program to create a STEM Agriculture Pathways model to serve students beyond secondary education. The project also includes the formation of the National Juntos Consortium to support a replicable, scalable program that improves youth representation in postsecondary education programs and advances workforce development for youth within the Land Grant University Extension System.

• The grant allows for 60 students to participate in the program on an annual basis.
• High school students and their families in Lee County interested in the program can enroll.
• The program location is Lee County High School.

Fast Facts about programming

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For more information on the program, contact Oscar Hernandez, program coordinator, at ohern032@cccc.edu or (919) 718-7299.