Wine Passport App By Stacey Stearns | PassportToCTFarmWine.com Evan Lentz and Casey Lambert spent the summer of 2018 as undergraduate interns scouting for diseases and insects at vineyards and small fruit farms throughout the state with the iPiPE grant through the National Institute for Food and Agriculture. iPIPE is the Integrated Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education. It’s a weather and pest-tracking tool for grow- ers to use. The program uses technology to categorize endemic pests, users, and data. Extension Educator Mary Concklin has a two-year iPiPe grant. “We collected information on farms, uploaded it to iPiPE, and shared our results with the growers,” Evan says. “I got to know many of the farmers and their day-to-day routines. Some of them really cared that we were at the farm, and we were a resource to help with their problems.” Evan graduates in May of 2019 with a major in Sustainable Plant and Soil Systems, and a minor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He starts graduate school in the fall. “I highly recommend Extension internships to anyone, in any major,” he concludes. Evan Lentz: Intern Spotlight By Stacey Stearns | ipm.uconn.edu The Passport to Connecticut Farm Wineries is a popular program where par- ticipants receive a stamp at each winery they visit. Participants that collect a cer- tain number of stamps from participating Connecticut Farm Wineries are eligible for more than 60 prizes, including a two- week trip for two to Spain. The Passport season runs from the first Friday in May through the first Sunday in November each year. It’s a program of the Connecticut Farm Wine Development Council and the Connecticut Department of Agriculture. Wine Passport participants must be 21 years or older. Dr. Michael O’Neill, Associate Dean and Associate Director of UConn Extension facilitated a process with the UConn Department of Computer Science capstone projects to create a mobile app for the Passport. The Passport app will be available in the spring of 2019, and there will be special prizes for those using the app in its inaugural year. Paper passports are also avail- able for those preferring the traditional model. Follow @CTFarmWineries on Facebook for more information, or visit PassportToCTFarmWine.com. 2018 HIGHLIGHTS OF EXTENSION 7 HE HE