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Students Tour UF Research Center

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 29, 2008

BALM - This year, the theme at Riverview's Summerfield Elementary School is growing young learners.

To that end, 300 students from the school visited the University of Florida's Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, 14625 County Road 672, to learn what happens behind the scenes in an agricultural research center.

"Obviously, this trip goes along with our school's theme for the year," said Marcy Ringdahl, media specialist and network administrator at Summerfield Elementary. "We're teaching the kids all about growing into becoming good learners."

The visit was split into two days. First, fifth, and half of third grade stopped by one day, and the second half of third grade was joined by fourth-graders and students in the autistic spectrum disorder class the next day.

When they arrived, the children were led into an auditorium for a brief presentation on the research center's work.

"We like to let people know that the University of Florida is about more than Tim Tebow, football and basketball," said Christine Cooley, media coordinator for the center.

Some of the topics the children learned about included entomology, wildlife ecology, soil and water science, and plant pathology. They also visited the center's environmental horticulture greenhouse and strawberry field.

John Ceballos

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