Santa Fe Community College’s Controlled Environment Agriculture program (SFCC-CEA) trains students in aquaponics, hydroponics, algae cultivation and CEA operations and management. Students maintain culture systems in a 1,115m2 off-grid greenhouse, with energy provided and stored using a photovoltaic solar array and lithium batteries. Students learn on large, semi-commercial scale systems where crops are produced year-round. Grants allow the program to grow while focusing on different areas of aquaculture. Our NSF ATE 3-year grant provides college level courses to high school students through dual credit offerings, using a blending teaching modality. Students earning college credit have an incentive to continue their college pathway at SFCC to finish their certificate or AAS degrees in CEA. A pipeline has developed, and students are moving from high school to college to study aquaculture. A NIFA Tribal College Research grant was awarded last year to Navajo Technical University (NTU), with SFCC receiving a subaward. The work focuses on hydroponic food production at NTU and the local Navajo Chapter House. SFCC is also collaborating on another NIFA grant awarded to the University of Arizona and New Mexico State University. This grant provides outreach to Hispanic and underrepresented high school students and scholarships for underrepresented college students pursuing careers in Fisheries Science. Texas State University was awarded a NIFA-AFRI grant to study novel fish species in aquaponics systems. SFCC-CEA is hosting a graduate student from Texas State for two summer sessions, with the research being conducted using the SFCC aquaponic systems. This grant is testing the impacts of Hydrogen Peroxide on fish welfare and determining the impacts on crop production in a coupled aquaponic system. Year one is complete and plans for the second and final year are currently being made testing novel fish species for aquaponic producers to consider. Finally, our Algae Cultivation program supports students through funding from the Algae Foundation. SFCC is the lead institution in curriculum and microcredential development for the Algae Technology Educational Consortium funded by a Dept. Of Energy contract to the Algae Foundation. Other grant work using hydroponic systems will be discussed, including an EPSCoR track II grant that introduces CEA and hydroponics to schools and tribal communities. Once hydroponics is established, it opens the door to move into more aquaponic production trails.