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How can we raise kids' awareness of the benefits of fresh food so they can make better choices? Read the challenge brief

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Equip Kids with Plant Identification 'Tricorders'

Equipping kids with a plant identification 'tricorder' will exponentially increase their involvement with all aspects of food production and consumption.
Equipping kids with a plant identification 'tricorder' will exponentially increase their involvement with all aspects of food production and consumption.


Sean White is developing an easy-to-use mobile phone plant identification application:
http://herbarium.cs.columbia.edu/



Aparna Ramchandran's 'Personal Science Assistant' project exemplifies another way this can be done (old PDAs could be adapted for this):
http://www.msu.edu/~ramchan1/pda/index.html



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