Students stop at our booth.

 

 

Between four and five hundred grade 7 and 8 students were among the thousands of visitors to the Keystone Centre this week.

Agriculture in the Classroom - Manitoba hosted its annual Manitoba Ag Days Adventure.

"Our numbers were actually down a little this year because we decided it was a little too chaotic with more kids, as in other years," says Johanne Ross, executive director of AITC-MB. "But we have a long waiting list of kids waiting to get in."

"They're going through about 40 different displays. They're completing either a task or stopping to undertake a challenge of some kind around agriculture," she explains. "They're talking to industry people and finding out about the dynamic opportunities in the industry, and just getting an opportunity to feel the excitement."

She says they're noticing some of the renewed optimism in the industry.

"We're getting a lot of new partners coming forward and wanting to be a part of what we're doing. I think that's a pretty good indication that everyone's in a pretty good mood about the industry," she says.

The Manitoba Ag Days Adventure fits into the junior high curriculum.