The Ecological Society of America (ESA) has a program called "SEEDS" which stands for "Strategies for Ecology Education, Diversity and Sustainability: Diverse People for a Diverse Science." The SEEDS program provides mentorship and field experience to college students as a way of promoting diversity within the biological sciences. Every summer the National Science Foundation provides funding to ESA for a fieldtrip to bring the SEEDS participants to a different LTER site. This year, FCE hosted the SEEDS field trip and 25 students from around the country came to the Everglades. While here, they visited Everglades National Park, the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation, the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, discussed FCE research with project collaborators and graduate students, and participated in a career panel at Florida International University.