Educational Materials—Mango Nursery and Grafting MGMT

The work below represents my time and work with Cagayan State University- Lal-lo, where I was the lead curriculum and educational developer on a series of instructional materials that addressed issues on mango grafting and nursery management for low-income farmers in region 2 of Northern Luzon, Philippines. Alongside faculty members from Cagayan State University and Isabella State University, we developed instructional materials that helped to strengthen the fieldwork being done with rural farmers and families on developing demonstration nurseries with superior quality grafted mangos for income generation. The educational work focused on four components: 1) growing high-quality rootstock for grafting of carabao mangos, 2) creating training material around three highly effective best practice grafting techniques for mango, cleft grafting, inarching, and veneer grafting, 3) facilitating workshops and training university faculty and students on the accessibility and usages of new technologies for immersive instructional such as opensource creative design programs, 3D printing, and scanning for rapid prototyping of instructional materials, 4) translating all the educational training materials in English, Ilocano, Ibinag, and Tagalog to be accessible via physical and digital so farmers, development agencies, and universities can have open access to the information via Cagayan State University, Isabella State University, and the Commission of Higher Education of the Philippines (CHED) website.