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
