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Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are a species of pollinators that are not native to the Americas, but are used extensively in the agricultural industry. Africanization, the hybridization of the European and African honey bee subspecies, occurred initially in Brazil and has since spread to North America. Africanized honey bees have adapted several defensive behaviors, such as frequent swarming/absconding and a longer pursuit time, which are highly undesirable when kept domestically. Since this hybridization has occurred, many papers have quantified its spread at different time points, however, a continuous quantification process is necessary for the estimate to remain accurate. This project aims to use the DraI restriction digestion test of the COI-COII intergenic region in the mitochondrial DNA (DmCC) for lineage identification in a community outreach program with integrated undergraduate student research opportunities to continually quantify Africanization in the Americas. The first step of this project was to standardize this genetic test in the Phoenix Metropolitan population of honey bees by comparing the DmCC test to wing phenotyping methods and sequence results. Ninety-seven samples were DmCC tested and nine samples were sent for sequencing to verify their lineages. Right forewing measurements were taken from sixty-eight samples and ~68% had an Africanization probability of 50%. From the DmCC test, 85 of the honey bees were of lineage C and 12 were of lineage A. The patterns from the DmCC testing matched the sequencing results showing that the DmCC test was accurate while the wing phenotyping method was not. The undergraduate research portion of the project was tested as a pilot program in the Honors Genetics class at Arizona State University during the spring of 2025. The students reacted positively, many stating that the class enriched their knowledge in research. From the data above, an outline of the outreach program was created and is detailed in this research paper. These programs are meant to be transferable, so different institutions across the Americas can adopt it to further community and undergraduate research education while quantifying the spread of Africanization.