The future is bright as Kootenay kids dream up garden-based innovations
KAST Youth, in partnership with FortisBC, is excited to announce the winners of this year’s Kootenay Contraption Contest, an annual initiative that challenges Kootenay youth to dream big and design a contraption that solves a relevant problem using STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) and innovation.
Throughout the month of May, Kindergarten to Grade 8 students from across the region put on their thinking caps and used their creativity to solve the following challenge: Everyone loves home grown food or veggies from the local farmers market, it just tastes better! What contraption can you imagine to help grow food locally? It can be something for local farms, a community garden or even your own backyard garden bed or balcony box!
This year KAST (Kootenay Association of Science & Technology)…
