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vertical farming small business innovation research agricultureWe are a start-up looking to revolutionize agriculture by using indoor vertical farming, along with contributing to 14 out of the 17 UN SDG goals. We believe in improving the world, and therefore we are allegedly for a variety of grants. We want a student to helps us finding and applying for those grants. We have already applied and being accepted to a couple of grants.
Students will be given information & help along with finding and applying for these grants.
At the moment we focus on SBIR & USDA but would like to expand to different grants.
Search for Grants in the Federal, State and City systems.
We will have formal weekly meetings.
We will respond via email and adhoc zoom meetings.
About the company
We are an Indoor Vertical Farming company. Check our website http://LocalGrownSalads.com.
We love working with Riipen Students.
We work with students from all around the world. In fact we say that the sun never sets on Local Grown Salads.
(Its true and its a pun on our Indoor Vertical Farming Technology)
We have ongoing relationships with Arizona State University, U of Texas, RMIT in Australia, University Canada West, to name a few..
We work with individuals or teams (typically doing a capstone)
We provide a Virtual work environment using Agile (using JIRA), Discord, AWS, ReTool, React Native, Postgres to name some of our tools.
Zoom, and other tools.
Students can expect
1) Mentoring
2) international Networking
3) An environment to learn and prepare themselves for a career.
3) a reference letter