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The REAP goals are to support the future pool of trained talent available to contribute to the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics. The REAP experience is a hands-on research experience designed to develop students skills in STEM and to help prepare the students to pursue advanced studies in STEM at the undergraduate level and beyond.

Partial Listing of Accomplishments and Successes of Prior REAP Apprentices:

 

1991 - 2 Andrea Peck
Masters in Food Science and employed with Cargill

1993 - 4 Allison Cobb
Masters in Food Science and employed at Hormel

1994 - Kevin Yung
MS Chemical Engineering Case Western

1995 - Michele Harland
US Ski Coaches All-Academic Team

1996 - Molly Ward
Designs exhibits at Museum of the Rockies, teaches at the Montana Science School

1997 - Amanda Cundy
Manager at Los Alamos National Lab, Goldwater Recipient, NSF Graduate Fellowship, MS VA Tech, working on PhD through UCSD and Los Alamos

1998 - Paul Grimsrud
Won American Institute of Chemists Foundation Award

1998 - Anders Knospe
PhD program at Yale in Physics

1998 - Allison Boutin
Presented research at the Second International Congress of Phytolith Research in France

1998 - Charles Thompson, III
Presented abstract at the 150th Annual AAAS meeting

1998 - Sandy Marchena
Full scholarship at Brown University, Computer Engineering

1999 - Kevin Bowers
PhD student at Carnegie Mellon graduated RPI

2000 - Emily Grimsrud
Biology/Chemistry Penn State; currently in Medical School

2000 - Natasha Garrett
Nominated and selected to participate in the 2001 National Youth Leadership Forum on Defense Intelligence and Diplomacy

2000 - Tiffany Elliot
Named and awarded the Advanced Placement Scholar award by the College Board

2001 - Brian Story
Graduate student at Colorado State

2002 - Marshall Swearington
Dartmouth in Physics, worked in Antarctica USAP 04-05 field season

2003 - Meera Menon
Accepted at Case Western Research University (med school)

2004 - Cynthia Baca
Hired as researcher at New Mexico State where she was an apprentice. Her mentor states that REAP is an excellent program for recruiting students in research activities.

- Douglas Brown
Graduated from Clark Atlanta University, B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science (3.9 GPA). Received a University Scholarship, a PRISM-D scholarship, and accepted in the NSF Scholarship for Service program. Published two papers, one of which won a Best Paper Award at the 2004 GECCO conference. Participated in summer internships programs at the Navy Research Lab in Washington DC and at Sandia National Labs in Livermore, CA.

- Kathy L. Hayrynen
Graduated from Michigan Technological University, BS MS, and PhD in Metallurgical Engineering. Upon completion of her graduate work, she worked as Post Doctoral Research Fellow on Contract # DAAE07-94-C-R058 for TACOM.