Lesson Objective
Perry’s Story
Values
Language Arts Lesson Activity Options
Stem Lesson Activity Options
Sustainability Innovations
Sustainable Career Pathways
Lessons Learned
PERRY RASO
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Lesson Objective
Perry’s Story
Values
Language Arts Lesson Activity Options
Stem Lesson Activity Options
Sustainability Innovations
Sustainable Career Pathways
Lessons Learned
PERRY RASO
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LESSON OBJECTIVE
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LESSON OBJECTIVES
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(i) Evaluate Sustainable Practices in Aquaculture and Local Business Development
(ii) Develop their Entrepreneurial Vision
(iii) Understand the Community Impact of Sustainable Businesses
LESSON OBJECTIVES
Students will be able to:
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Lesson Objective
Perry’s Story
Values
Language Arts Lesson Activity Options
Stem Lesson Activity Options
Sustainability Innovations
Sustainable Career Pathways
Lessons Learned
PERRY RASO
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PERRY’S STORY
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PERRY’S STORY
PERRY’S �STORY
Inspiration
Perry Raso's father dreamed of being a fisherman but struggled after retiring as a police officer. Perry picked up this dream, starting his journey with clamming as a teenager in Rhode Island's waters.
Hard Work and Education
Clamming taught Perry the value of effort. He later pursued aquaculture and fisheries technology at the University of Rhode Island, preparing him for entrepreneurship.
Matunuck Oyster Bar & Farm
With a grant, Perry founded the Matunuck Oyster Farm, focusing on sustainable seafood. Its success led to the creation of the Matunuck Oyster Bar, known for its farm-to-table philosophy.
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Sustainability and Growth
Perry expanded his operations to include organic vegetable farming and a shellfish hatchery, creating a fully sustainable model.
Community and Education
Perry mentors youth, participates in environmental cleanups, and advocates for aquaculture's role in sustainability.
Challenges
Despite climate change threats, Perry continues to innovate, employing over 200 people and inspiring others to embrace aquaculture as a viable industry.
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Matunuck Oyster Bar & Farm
Matunuck Oyster Farm and Bar’s main objectives and initiatives:
Sustainable Aquaculture and Local Sourcing
Farm-to-Table and Pond-to-Table Dining
Community Engagement and Education
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Perry’s Story
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Stem Lesson Activity Options
Sustainability Innovations
Sustainable Career Pathways
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VALUES
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* Entrepreneurship
* Sustainability
* Initiative
* Education
* Environmentalist
VALUES
What values have you learned from �Perry’s Story?
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Lesson Objective
Perry’s Story
Values
Language Arts Lesson Activity Options
Stem Lesson Activity Options
Sustainability Innovations
Sustainable Career Pathways
Lessons Learned
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LANGUAGE ARTS
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LANGUAGE ARTS
WHAT TYPE OF BUSINESS WOULD� YOU LIKE TO BE IN?
Think of ways you might want to open a business, and do it in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way.
Write a cover letter introducing yourself to potential investors.
Include information about the type of business you plan to start; the skills and experience you have that will be necessary for the business to succeed; and what will make your company better than any other company in the same field. It’s important to cover all these points, but the people who will be reading it are probably very busy. �So it must also be brief.
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LANGUAGE ARTS
READ THIS ARTICLE AND WRITE YOUR OWN BUSINESS PROPOSAL
It should include the cover letter you wrote for the previous activity.
Then, for this exercise, focus on creating the following: Table of Contents, Executive Summary, and body of the Proposal, as explained in the article.
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CREATE A PRESENTATION
Create a presentation on aquaculture
Include: what it is, the preferred methods used in aquaculture, and why it is considered a sustainable practice.
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Perry’s Story
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Sustainability Innovations
Sustainable Career Pathways
Lessons Learned
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STEM LESSON
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STEM LESSON
ECO-OCEAN: �AN OVERFISHING SIMULATION GAME
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STEM LESSON
Learn the importance of aquaculture in the sustainable fishing industry by playing Eco Ocean. Then, answer the following questions:
AQUA PROJECT
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STEM LESSON
In this activity, students will design, create, and maintain an aquaculture farm.
The activity starts on Section 3, page 11. (Note: This is a long-term project.)
COASTAL EROSION
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STEM LESSON
Coastal erosion is the process by which wave action wears away beaches and shorelines; it results in loss of property for landowners, and millions of dollars’ worth of damages each year.
In this activity, students will develop a cost-effective and environmentally safe engineering solution to show how aquaculture operations can be strategically developed to reduce shoreline damage.
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Perry’s Story
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Sustainability Innovations
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SUSTAINABILITY�����INNOVATIONS
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SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATIONS
Perry had the perfect storm of drive and determination, along with an ideal geographical location to give him the opportunity to succeed with the Matunuck Oyster Farm.
Some individuals are not as lucky; but they can still take advantage of created aquaculture systems to cultivate shrimp, fish, and oysters. There are many challenges with this process, including water organism diseases. Viaqua Therapeutics is one of the leaders in the delivery of oral vaccinations to prevent disease in fish.
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SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATIONS
Due to lack of area and space for aquaculture and the threat of waste, Better Fish Farming was created as a project of the Recirculating Farms Coalition to emphasize the usage and efficiency of closed-looped fish farming.
Atlantic Sapphire is one of the leaders of this project, which has created “blue houses” to farm and cultivate Atlantic salmon.
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SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATIONS
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SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATIONS
Perry has a beautiful aquaculture farm because of his ability to use a natural setting, but others have developed the use of technologies to assist them in less conducive conditions.
Innovasea is a company that has found success within open ocean aquaculture, land-based aquaculture, and aquaculture intelligence.
Lesson Objective
Perry’s Story
Values
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Sustainability Innovations
Sustainable Career Pathways
Lessons Learned
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SUSTAINABLE CAREER
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DIVER
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SUSTAINABLE CAREER
Before he created his shellfish farm, Perry harvested shellfish by scuba diving.
Divers are in demand for many other projects as well--from building offshore wind turbines, to reseeding coral reefs, to helping to conduct scientific research and archeology. If you love diving, there’s potential to make a career out of it!
Read about some diving jobs here.
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SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURALIST
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SUSTAINABLE CAREER
One of the great ways to heal the ocean is by growing kelp and shellfish to filter and clean the ocean.
Farming the seas, or aquaculture, is a growth industry, as is working for companies that help seed aquaculture operations.
An aquaculturist oversees the breeding and growing of fish, manages staff, and/or operates aquacultural systems. Learn more here.
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ROBOTICIST
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VALUES
SUSTAINABLE CAREER
If you love the ocean (and robots), perhaps you should be a roboticist. Roboticists are designing autonomous underwater vehicles that will be the future of ocean exploration, aquaculture, and coral restoration.
This is an exciting new sector of the Blue Economy that is growing, and that currently lacks a sufficient number of qualified employees.
Even if you don’t like oceans, there are dozens of fields in which roboticists are needed. Interested? Learn more about entering the field of robotics here.
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SUSTAINABLE�RESTAURANTEUR
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VALUES
SUSTAINABLE CAREER
For those who love the idea of managing a restaurant, especially one that draws on sustainable ingredients and helps people understand that healthy and sustainable food is delicious, there are many leaders to draw inspiration from.
For example, Alice Waters opened her trailbreaking restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, in 1971. And in 2021, Ona, a restaurant in a small village in southwestern France, became the first vegan restaurant to receive a Michelin star.
Perry’s restaurant, Matunuck Oyster Bar, has shown how obtaining ingredients from local sources and integrating those sources into the business plan can be successful. Perry now has a Farm-(and Sea)-to-Table enterprise, drawing from his vegetable and oyster farms. Want to learn more about being a restauranteur? Read here.
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Lesson Objective
Perry’s Story
Values
Language Arts Lesson Activity Options
Stem Lesson Activity Options
Sustainability Innovations
Sustainable Career Pathways
Lessons Learned
PERRY RASO
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What Have You Learned From Today’s Class?
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LESSONS LEARNED
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LESSONS LEARNED
Hard work, passion, and creativity lead to innovation.
And innovation can make it possible to be both professionally successful and environmentally responsible.
Hard work and a dream are not enough to achieve success.
You have to educate yourself, and not be afraid to innovate in your field.
You can build a successful business by working to preserve the environment and using the natural resources available in your community responsibly, instead of depleting them.
Thoughts?
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