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Discovery High School innovators place third at Mercy Corps event

Students put youthful spin on sustainable farming practices

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The students on the MAU Team, which came up with Modular Agricultural Units and technology designed to help resource-poor, young urban "micro farmers" grow and trade crops, consisted of (from left to right) Madeline Henion, Myles Wetzel, Edison Twyman and Cody Crawford. Jose Gordillo (not pictured), a foreign exchange student who has since returned to his home in Guatemala, also was on the team.

Three groups of Discovery High freshmen from Camas recently competed with young innovators from Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington for cash prizes and the quest to solve one incredibly important problem — a lack of food for the world’s population by 2050.

According to the Camas School District, the students, all part of Discovery High’s LEAP (Linking Engineering and Philanthropy) project, partnered with Mercy Corps, a Portland-based nonprofit that responds to disasters throughout the world and bills itself as “a global humanitarian organization empowering people to recover from crisis, build better lives and transform their communities for good,” to answer one main question: “How do we provide youth with useful and meaningful farming technology that will help meet the world’s food needs in a sustainable manner?”

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