University of Arizona Cooperative Extension helps local high school

YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA) - Harvest Preparatory Academy's Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program is receiving help from a local university.

The school's stem program was in need of a laboratory to conduct experiments.

Luckily, the University of Arizona's Cooperative Extension allowed them to use their equipment.

Now the Harvest Prep students are working on DNA extraction.

"The main goal is to create an application like a mobile app where it can detect whether the rot an Saguaro Cactus is progressing and find ways to mitigate the problem," said Alfred Santos, the District Program Coordinator for the school.

The local staff and students are extremely thankful to the local university because without them, they would have to travel to Tucson to conduct their experiments.