World Food Prize Youth Institute
The World Food Prize Youth Institute provides a three-day all expenses-paid educational opportunity and forum for high school students. Our students interact with Nobel and World Food Prize Laureates and are exposed to an array of experts, facilities and organizations relating to food security. The Youth Institute also provides students with opportunities to consider careers in food, agriculture and natural resource disciplines.
The Borlaug
Institute for International Agriculture has created the Texas A&M
Youth Agriculture Symposium as an extension of the World Food Prize Youth Institute. Students from all over the state of Texas are invited to submit essays and participate in the event.
Each participating high school selects a student who will write an essay addressing this year's topic: "Biofuels: Promises and Implications for Food Security in Developing Countries." Schools are
also asked to designate a faculty member who will chaperone the student at the symposium.
All of the students who write essays will be invited to the Texas A&M
Youth Agriculture Symposium, which is to be held in College Station on
September 15, 2007. The top five students will be invited to attend
the World Food Prize Youth Institute. This includes a three-day trip
to Des Moines, Iowa, where students will learn from such luminaries as
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Norman E. Borlaug and other World Food
Prize Laureates for three days of dialogue, presentations and
interaction. The symposium takes place on October 18-20, 2007.
Student and faculty teams prepare discussion papers, which are presented by the students during a day-long seminar before a panel of World Food Prize Council of Advisors and Laureates - individuals who are acknowledged leaders in a broad range of food and agricultural disciplines. The papers are published in the Youth Institute Proceedings. Discussion and interaction with fellow students and presentations by officials (such as Iowa Lieutenant Governor Sally Pederson) enhance the overall experience.
The Borlaug-Ruan International Internship is one of the most unique programs in America inspiring science education for high school students.
The Foundation stresses the uniqueness of this program from other study abroad internship programs in that the students participate in research projects with world-renowned researchers while getting a
first-hand view of real and pressing food security issues and nutritional problems in poverty-stricken areas. The student becomes an
integral part of the project spending time in the lab as well as days
or weeks at a time in the field conducting research and gathering
data. The goal of the Summer Internship Program is to inspire Iowa
youths to pursue careers in food, agricultural and natural resource
disciplines.
Paper specifications and other information can be found at the World
Food Prize Youth Institute Web site:
Click Here.
All interested parties should contact Tim Aylsworth in the Borlaug Institute at timpsx@tamu.edu
