It was a bitterly cold morning when the students of years 6 and 7 from Seaview Downs and Brighton Public schools began their STEM journey at AV’s Mt Compass worm farm. Introduced to the schools as a potential STEM project by curious school holiday helper, Hayley Saunders of Seaview Downs Public, the question of communicating the importance of soil health was introduced to the, now, team of soil warriors.

Following a download of information on the processes of AV and the bigger picture of soil health in agriculture and at home, the students returned to school to begin their knowledge seeking drive.

Donning their creative caps and forward to a much warmer four months down the track with visits to both Seaview Downs and Brighton schools to find out what the students had come up with.

From lobbying government, multiple website refreshes, flyers, banners, organic waste disposal education, media campaigns, field day attendance, trials conducted in the school garden, a new retail range (which we were in the process of doing) and more we were blown away with a plethora of well researched and thoroughly considered approaches to the question put forward on that cold morning at the worm farm.

Thank you Brighton and Seaview Downs students, you have surprised and delighted us with your responses and reminded us, from a future generation, why we do what we do.