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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
Rome Newbold and Livingstone Toussaint with one of their winning mangrove murals.
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Two students from the Central Andros High Navigators Club placed second in the student exhibit competition at the recent Agribusiness Expo organized by the Ministry of Agriculture & Marine Resources.
Livingston Toussaint and Rome Newbold's exhibit focused on the importance of mangroves as nurseries for commercial fish. They painted murals and developed storyboards on the four species of mangrove that grow here.
The students are members of the Bahamas National Trust’s Navigators Club. They were guided in the development of their exhibit by Navigators Leader Glendina Dorsette and BNT education officers Juanita Munroe and Liz Brace.
As a result of their work, Central Andros High School received a $1,000 cash prize provided by Tropic Seafoods.
The Navigators programme is the senior level of the BNT’s Discovery Club. Partly sponsored by the Atlantis Blue Project Foundation, it offers a fun learning experience that is more research-based.
“Participants in the Navigators programme share an awesome opportunity that will help them in their school work and give them marketable skills,” said BNT Education Director Portia Sweeting.
There are 60 Discovery Club chapters on nine islands and 18 Navigators groups on three islands.
The theme of this year's Agribusiness Expo was "Progress through Food Security.” The event showcased local produce, meats, processed foods and handicrafts at the Gladstone Road Agricultural Centre.
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