Happy to announce that we finally have an official organization for our outreach group- CREC Educational Engagement in Plant Science (CEEPS) CEEPS And we have our first outreach event coming up this Saturday. 🥳

Upcoming event: Feb 25, 2023 at the Lake County Extension office with #4H District VIII #Citrus Project. We will have Mr. Brandon White, UF/IFAS Extension Agent and some fellow students and postdocs from UF/IFAS Citrus REC joining us for this event. sites.google.com/ufl.edu/4-hcit…

The CEEPS had an amazing time talking about citrus pathogens and pests for the #4H citrus program. Thank you Brandon White for giving us the opportunity to interact with youths! 🍊🍋 UF/IFAS Citrus REC UFCitrusBugs 🍊🐞

Yesterday @AlexCFast gave a seminar at the Haines city library about beneficial bacteria and disease control in citrus. This is a great way to connect with the local community and share the research done at UF/IFAS Citrus REC CREC Graduate Student and PostdoctoralOrganization 🍊 🔬

Members of the CEEPS volunteered at the 2023 State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida to judge middle and high school students projects! Let’s help the new generation to grow as scientists! 🐊

Researchers invite nursery and citrus growers for Lebbeck mealybug diagnostic kits demo blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/irrec/2023/04/…

Had a wonderful day volunteering at a workshop for Plants Get Sick Too! Professional Development for K-12 Teachers at the UF Gainesville campus, where they learned about #citrusgreening and what scientists are working on UF/IFAS Citrus REC. May, 6th 2023. shorturl.at/DFUV6

Photos are in! Thanks to Connor, @pol_sarkar_ and Zahra Torkaman for volunteering at this event.

The CEEPS had the pleasure to talk about plant pests and diseases to our local master gardeners at the Mackay Gardens 🐝🦠🌿 🌷Thanks to @DemardEmilie Zahra Torkaman chiara bernardini and Connor for volunteering UF/IFAS Citrus REC UFCitrusBugs 🍊🐞

What an amazing day the CEEPS had with the kids from the lake Alfred elementary school!! We taught about soil sciences, entomology and pathology. Thanks to all our grad student and postdocs for volunteering ! Amazing team work 🍊🦠🔬🐞🙂UF/IFAS Citrus REC #UF #outreach

I love that our lab team is so involved in local outreach 🥰 CEEPS is the student & postdoc outreach organization UF/IFAS Citrus REC and they are doing great work sharing their love of science (and bugs) with the community. UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology UF/IFAS

The CEEPS enjoyed talking about bugs and citrus at the Cowboy Country Festival and Heritage Day. We even got to see Santa Claus!! 🍊🎅😊UF/IFAS Citrus REC #outreach #uf #education #citrus

The CEEPS is happy to announce that we now have a webpage where you can find our past and future outreach events as well as information about our officers ! Go check it out at crec.ifas.ufl.edu/teaching/ceeps/ UF/IFAS Citrus REC 🍊🍋

This week CEEPS members had the pleasure to participate to the Polk county Agri-Fest to talk about citrus production in Florida to 4th graders🍊🍋🐊 @uf FLORIDAIFASCitrusREC UFCitrusBugs 🍊🐞 #extension #outreach #floridacitrus

What a great time we had sharing about citrus research with a local high school! Thanks to CEEPS and the labs of Amit Levy, Nian Wang, and Davie Kadyampakeni! Water & Nutrient Management Lab UF/CREC Michael Rogers UF IFAS Solutions #AllInForCitrus #UFCitrus