Lake Illawarra High School agricultural students are in the running to take out a statewide award at the Sydney Royal Easter Show.
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The school’s science, agriculture and primary industries teacher Michelle Atkinson said students have been working for weeks seeding the boards and models for their Easter Show exhibit.
The school is representing the Southern Region in the ‘Schools District Display’ category, competing against four other NSW schools.
“At the show, farmers do a big display out of seed, grain, wool and vegetables,” Ms Atkinson said.
“The schools do a smaller-scale one… Our school’s is all peas, lentils, grain, seed, it’s all agricultural produce.
“We used three full-sized ply-boards; it’s six-and-a-half metres across and two-and-a-half metres tall.
“And then you’ve got a front section that’s the same size.”
Year 10 agricultural students have been working on the display in class since the beginning of the year.
The students have also been traveling back and forth to Sydney this week to finish the display by Thursday afternoon’s deadline. Judging is on Friday morning.
Student Amber Britton said it was rewarding, “seeing the project come together slowly, but surely… Our hard work seems to be paying off”.
Ms Atkinson said the display was a “snapshot of our school”.
“The theme for our display is ‘agriculture in schools - growing our future’, and the inspiration is the students. They're the future of community.
“In agriculture we're not just growing the produce, we're growing the kids as well... Teaching them how to be, coming up here and interacting with the other schools and the farmers, and seeing where the future goes.”