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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello Friends of the Whitaker Center,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Jen Jones at the Center for Environment and Society passed this along to me. If you know of any students who might be a good fit, please let them know about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">'Becoming an Earth Prize Mentor is a unique opportunity for university students to share and expand their knowledge on environmental sustainability and entrepreneurship, by advising participants in The Earth
 Prize, a $200,000 global youth environmental sustainability competition for students between the ages of 13 and 19. Mentors will contribute to the development of students’ innovative project proposals by offering them guidance on their ideas and answering
 their questions. Mentors who will have demonstrated the highest levels of engagement will be given the chance to work individually with one of the ten The Earth Prize Finalists. *Application deadline: 15th July 2021 at 23.59CET'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Full details at: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://earth-foundation.org/mentors__;!!IkmNjII!SkW6RneXHVawiMHwmTkKqmUqbwmblx-DDRtxLHaz16F1H6LQstLlOTGJhAv_JkAE$">https://earth-foundation.org/mentors</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Brian Johnson, Ph.D. 
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</span></b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Interim Director and Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#17365D">(he / him / his)</span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Whitaker Center for STEM Education and Department of Mathematics 
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BFBFBF">|</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">  College of Arts & Sciences</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://fgcu.edu/whitakercenter"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:175%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">http://fgcu.edu/whitakercenter</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:175%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2F5496">
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