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Local And Mainland Students Experience VI Culture And Agriculture During AgDiscovery 2017

ST. CROIX -- A group of teenagers, most of them visiting from the U.S. mainland, gathered at the University of the Virgin Islands' cafeteria on Saturday morning, seemingly having a great time during the closing ceremony of the two-week AgDiscovery 2017 Summer Enrichment Program, the only one of its kind in the Caribbean. They had gathered to celebrate their successful completion of the roughly twelve-day experience, whose aim was to help the students determine whether or not they wanted to pursue a career in agriculture when they attend college, and if so, what exactly in the more than 300 career paths they wanted to do. The event was lighthearted, with students receiving recognition from their peers for otherwise inessential achievements. The program itself, though, was anything but. The students, who stayed on the U.V.I. campus for the program's duration, were taught through interactive classroom activities, according to Louis E. Petersen, Jr., assistant director of the St....