Community & Business
9 September, 2025
Schools planting the seeds of interest in ag
As an agricultural community it's obviously important that our young people develop an interest in agriculture at an early age and so it’s great to see our local schools are doing exactly that.
The Department of Primary Industry Hermitage Research Facility holds a annual agricultural science competition that is open to all schools and our local schools are dominant in the list of students receiving awards.
These competitions are designed to foster and nurture an interest in all things agricultural and this year’s theme of Insects in Agriculture was bound to stimulate student interest.
It seems insects are popular at Pilton State School where students are well represented in the awards.
Year 6 student Braxton Holloway received a Highly Commended Award while Year 2 student Charles Henningsen received an Outstanding Achievement Award.
Year 2 students Rosie Rice and Florence Wilson dominated the Young Science Investigator Award being placed first and second in a highly contested section.
Other Pilton students who received a Highly Commended Award in this section were George Ferguson, Xander James, Charlotte Lindley, Darcy Stepanoff, and Rupert Ferguson.
Linking science with art is a great way of creating interest and Pilton Prep student George Ferguson won his section while several other students received Highly Commended Awards.
Students from Back Plains and Nobby state schools and Clifton State High School also received awards.
