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Left to right: Easterseals educator Michele Kolp, Mote Education staff Alison Goldy, Easterseals student Gabriel Silverio.
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Mote education program receives boost from local foundation

December 01, 2022 | Sean Stover

Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium is pleased to announce that Mote’s C-STEM Program has received an award of $10,000 from The Weichel Family Fund of the Manatee Community Foundation. The grant will be used in the 2022-2023 program year to fund the delivery of monthly educational programming in...

Mote's Dr. Rich Pierce & Jim Hillier, Booker students Victor Arismendi & Evan LeFils, and Booker Engineering Liaison Tony McCrea
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Education meets innovation: Booker Engineering students build housing for Mote’s red tide detector

March 28, 2018 | Hayley Rutger

End-of-year update (as of Sept. 30, 2018) In addition to the PHYSS unit that the Booker Engineering students encased for use in the lab, Mote has also converted two PHYSS units into submersibles and deployed them in the field this year to monitor for Florida red tide  —  one southeast of Sanibel...

Sarasota High School Students, each holding a fresh romaine lettuce plant, line up next to the open top of Hugh and Buffett's large outdoor tank. One of the manatees is partially visible under the water.
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From farm to feed, students grow food for Mote’s manatees

December 01, 2015 | Kaitlyn Fusco

Students from Sarasota High School visited Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium Tuesday, Dec. 1, to deliver freshly grown lettuce from their school garden to feed Mote’s resident manatees as part of a new, pilot, community-based school program. Manatees are massive, slow moving aquatic herbivores...

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