Local high school in Yuma receives grant to support student inventors
Andrea Turisk
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA) – A local high school in Yuma received a grant to help support student inventors.
Harvest Preparatory Academy (HPA) has been selected as one of only eight high schools in the entire nation to receive a Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam Grant.
Courtesy: Harvest Preparatory Academy
Courtesy: Harvest Preparatory Academy
The $7,500 grant supports student inventors in designing a solution to reduce E. coli contamination in leafy greens, an issue that has repeatedly impacted Yuma’s agriculture industry, which supplies nearly 90% of the country’s winter leafy greens.
Harvest Prep was the only school selected to receive this grant this year.
Courtesy: Harvest Preparatory Academy
The HPA InvenTeam will spend the school year designing and building a working prototype to help protect consumers, field workers, and growers across the region.
To learn more about this, read the press release below.