Success Stories By MajorProgram FY2024Jul 1, 2023 - Jun 30, 2024





Henry Clay High School Students’ Response to Focus Group Questions Demonstrate Good Learning Outcomes

Author: Ken Thompson

Major Program: Aquaculture

Twenty-one students from Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky participated in a semester long aquaponics program.  They liked watching the fish grow and feeding them based upon their focus group responses.  For most, the fish were the best part of the project.  The most challenging part for many of the students was figuring out how to do the water testing and learning about the nitrogen cycle.  One student stated that nitrate and nitrite tests were challenging becaus

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