The room will be Gates 271. Thanks, -Esther On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 9:24 AM Esther Jang <infrared@cs.washington.edu> wrote:

*Join us for the first Change Seminar of the year, tomorrow 1/7!*

*When*: Tuesday 1/7, 12pm-1pm *Where*: TBD- there will be another email to announce the room *Who: *Andrew Powers *Title: *Eco - Tech In the Urban Garden

*Bio:*

Andrew is a graduate of Seattle University and holds a B.A. in Digital Design. As a passionate S.T.E.M. educator, he focuses on connecting people in underserved communities with technology in culturally competent ways. In 2015, Andrew and his twin brother Adam joined forces to create Key Tech labs, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that strives to provide open sourced education to underserved communities in order to empower the community through project based learning and S.T.E.M. Education.

*Summary:* Eco - Tech in the Urban Garden is a program where we use the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and math (S.T.E.M.) to produce the producers. The practice of agriculture is what helped humanity rise and grow, and S.T.E.M. is the soil that feed that growth. In our program we teach our students how to build a “Farmbot GreenHouse” a robot that will water, weed, and seed a garden, as well as smart greenhouse that will monitor the garden as it also provides protection. The program isn't just designed to provide education, but to produce food, jobs, and a community of self sustainable people with the choice to use, share, or sell the fruits of their labor.

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