UBC Highlights Food and Forestry Careers
JL Jackson Students Rivith Uyandoga (left), Quaid Vontine (right), and Grayson Castle (centre) work with AL Fortune Grade 12 student Colten Davidson (ball cap) to prepare their watershed model for an upcoming atmospheric river.
"This looks like an Oreo!"
Would there really be any surprise that Grade 10 JL Jackson student Quaid Vontine would think and talk about food when building an environmental model studying geography and food systems? Several JL Jackson, AL Fortune and Salmon Arm Secondary students spent the day learning about food and forestry as UBC's Faculty of Land and Food Systems and Faculty of Forestry conducted a day-long workshop at the Enderby high school.
SAS Grade 12 Student Danielle Montieth sprays hard and fast on her group watershed model to examine what takes place during an atmospheric river.
Students spent time learning about the different degrees you can obtain from UBC when it comes to those faculties. In Land and Food Systems, Bachelor of Science degrees can be obtained in Food, Nutrition and Health, Applied Biology, Food and Resource Economics and Global Resource Systems. In the Faculty of Forestry, students can get a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources specializing in Conservation, Bioeconomy Sciences and Technology, Forest Sciences, Forest Management, Forest Operations, Wood Products. There are also a Bachelor of Urban Forestry and a Bachelor of Indigenous Land Stewardship within the faculty.
JLJ Grade 10 Student Grayson Castle shows off the cell phone holder he constructed during the afternoon workshop.
Students also spent much time doing hands on activities. One task had students go into teams of four to build their own model of a watereshed. The students needed to provide the models with soil, trees, bushes and other formations like micro-organisms and then study what would happen when a human-caused event is introduced like a landslide or an oil spill.
SAS Grade 10 Student Liza Eliseeva puts the finishing touches on her group's tall structure they created within a short time.
Students also had a chance to assemble their own cell phone holder made from BC wood veneer and custom-cut from a UBC laser cutter. The final task was to do some one-the-spot engineering as they built a popsicle tower made of the sticks, duct tape, toothpicks and pipe cleaners within 15 minutes.
If you are interested in learning more about the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, they will be hosting a virtual open house, Taste of LFS, the week of November 17-20. Information about the various sessions offered and how to register can be found here. If you have any idea for novel field trip to be done within our district, please reach out to George Richard at 778-824-1188 via text or voice or email grichard@sd83.bc.ca.