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TED YOUNGLOVE: Having
students do science

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is the way you make
scientists out of them.

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The Title III Stem
Grant has a couple

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of major components,
one of which

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is the experiential learning.

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For effecting large
numbers of students,

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we've got things like the
Makerspace and the Living lab.

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For smaller numbers,
but much more intensive,

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we have the summer
research opportunities.

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This part is designed
to be very immersive

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in the sciences
in the stem areas,

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and give them real
world experience,

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and really change lives, change
directions on their pathway.

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VALERIE CRISTAL: I'm a
mechanical engineering major,

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and my summer research was at a
positronium physics lab at UC--

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Riverside.

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I had never done anything
like this before.

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I'm an undergrad.

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I wouldn't expect myself to
be doing such huge things

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around the lab,
but they actually

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gave me a lot of
faith and confidence

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and working with really cool
programs like SOLIDWORKS

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and MATLAB.

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It was really nice,
because they actually

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gave me the opportunity to
learn how to code and to work

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with the different machinery.

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I realized that I
should definitely

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take advantage of these
sort of experiences,

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because those are often
the most rewarding.

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And this was definitely-- being
able to do that much truly

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surpassed my expectations.

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EBENEZER (KOFI) PEPRAH:
I talk to the students.

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I ask them, hey, so what are
you really learning from this?

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It was like, before
I never even thought

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that what I'm learning
in class is relevant,

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but now I'm in the field.

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It helped them to actually
see what they are learning

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and how applicable in real life.

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HILL HARMAN: So we're interested
in helping community college

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students get early research
experience, because that's

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a key part to going on to pursue
advanced degrees in chemistry.

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BRIANA ARREAGA: My
name is Briana Arreaga.

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I'm currently
majoring in chemistry,

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and my summer
internship was at UC--

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Riverside.

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LAURA ESSEX: So, Briana
joined our lab in the summer

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and she worked with
me for three months.

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And in that time there, she
had had no organic chemistry

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classes actually, but she
had to do organic chemistry

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in real life, which
is a big leap to make.

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BRIANA ARREAGA: I was able
to gain extra knowledge

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that students before me
wouldn't have been able to,

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as well as getting connections
between different students.

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HILL HARMAN: We want to
be able to help them build

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the relationships that can lead
to letters of recommendation

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for graduate school.

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BRIANA ARREAGA: I gained
a lot of experience

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through that internship,
just because I

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was able to apply those lab
techniques that I learned

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into my current organic class.

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LAURA ESSEX: Now in
the classes, she's

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already going to be
ahead of everyone else.

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She actually told
me when she was

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taking organic chemistry she was
doing very well in her exams.

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She gained a lot of confidence.

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HILL HARMAN: We're very
interested in hosting

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community college students.

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It's actually a
priority of my lab

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to host community college
students for research

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experiences over the summer.

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TED YOUNGLOVE: We
did manage to line up

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a number of good partnerships
this past summer.

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We had the San
Bernardino County Museum,

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we had the Rancho Santa
Ana Botanical Gardens.

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At UC-- Riverside, we
had physics, chemistry,

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and earth sciences,
and then we also

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had students at West Valley
Mosquito and Vector Control

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District.

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DR. MICHELLE BROWN: I
am Dr. Michelle Brown.

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I am the district manager at the
West Valley Mosquito and Vector

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Control District.

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We work on a lot of research
regarding mosquito resistance,

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pesticide resistance.

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In my experience, undergraduates
have all the energy,

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and they're energized from their
instructors and the information

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that they're learning
in the courses,

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but they usually don't have
an outlet for this energy.

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They don't know how they can
apply it in the real world,

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or even in an
occupational setting.

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How does this apply
to a real-world job?

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And so I think the STEM
program really helps bridge

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some of that gap.

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KARINA HERNANDEZ:
I feel that it's

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time for that step in
my educational career.

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You go from books and
lectures to hands on.

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SHANNON JESSON: Over the
course of her research project,

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I saw Karina develop
a lot of confidence.

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I saw her really grow in terms
of her ability to communicate

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scientific information.

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DR. MICHELLE BROWN:
Karina did a great job.

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Karina actually
developed a novel way

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to measure fish, which no
one had ever done before,

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which was great to see her put
the thought into the project,

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which was really great to see.

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TED YOUNGLOVE: This
summer we're going

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to focus on adding mathematics
research opportunities,

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and we're also working hard on
adding some technology jobs.

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We're really looking forward
to building some partnerships

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there with local businesses.

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SAN GADDIE: We're working
closely with a solar contractor

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to get what's called
a "mock solar system."

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So this would be
one or two panels

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that would allow us to use the
solar components in a classroom

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setting.

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And I could see all
kinds of opportunities,

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from the sciences to economics.

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I think there's lots
of opportunities

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for cross pollination across all
disciplines here at the campus.

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TED YOUNGLOVE: The
fun of this grant

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is seeing the students
actually blossom.

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My favorite one is one
of the students who's

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gone from thinking an AA is
the end of her academic career,

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to transferring to UCR.

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For me, personally,
that's why I do this job.

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VALERIE CRISTAL:
Thank you to everybody

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who gave me this
opportunity just

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to be able to step into a
field that I definitely see

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myself in is really rewarding.

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KARINA HERNANDEZ:
I would just like

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to say thank you
to this program,

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to everybody that was
able to make this happen.

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So I'm pretty grateful for this.

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EBENEZER (KOFI) PEPRAH: I
would encourage all professors

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to be involved in it.

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And let's spread the word.

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Let's get all the
students involved.

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I wish we can make it a
requirement for anybody

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who comes here to at least do
some research, be in the field,

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and be part of the STEM program.

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