ECHS Long-Term Research Project results in Student Recognition! Congratulations!

In October, Clean Tech ECHS juniors at TEC-SMART were offered the opportunity to conduct long-term, comprehensive research of a global food-security challenge as part of the World Food Prize (WFP) New York Youth Institute (NYYI). Student papers were evaluated by a WFP Board of Reviewers, which includes university educators and distinguished food security experts. When students attended NYYI on March 22 at Cornell University, they presented their research and unique recommendations. This experience resulted in 27 ECHS juniors earning recognition as Bourlaug Scholars. The top students from each state's Youth Institute are competitively selected as delegates to the WFP Global Youth Institute (GYI).

Ballston Spa High School junior, Mia Collins, has been selected to attend the 2024 WFP GYI. Mia is one of 150 students from across the world to be invited to share her research and recommendations with international experts and peers during a week-long academic conference. Her paper, Reviving Yemen’s Agricultural Sector: Coffee Trade for Sustainable Economic Development, will be published and made accessible to the public by the World Food Prize Foundation.