Marrickville High School's Archibull Adventure
Good morning, Viewer. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves the unveiling of the prized item designated "Archibull." You may select any two team members for this mission. You have thirty-six hours to recruit your team members and go to room 309 to receive your assignment. As always, should any member of your team be caught or harmed, the Institution will disavow all knowledge of your actions. And Viewer, the next time you go on our blog, please be good enough to subscribe for further instructions. This message will self-destruct in five seconds. Beep... Beep... Beep... Beep... Beep... All jokes of missions aside, it was quite an eventful day in VIA today. It was time to unveil our bull. As a class, we unwrapped the Archibull (and probably had too much fun with the bubble wrap while doing so) from it's packaging and started the beginning stages of sketching and designing on the fibre-glass sculpture. Although there was a minor mishap with the box cutter, our Archibull emerged almost unharmed in the end, just in time for our Young Farming Champion, Casey Onus. *The crowd goes wild* She is an Agronomist, which in its simplest form means that her jobs involves visiting farmers and ensuring their crops are healthy and pest-free. Casey has been in the industry for 5 to 6 years and is extremely passionate about all things agriculture. It was an engaging and informative visit, as Casey presented a PowerPoint showcasing her motivations for entering the industry, as well as a brief summary of her experiences in growing cotton and the process of cotton making. In return, we got up in groups of two or three and presented or design for our section of the bull. We also had to give a brief explanation of why we chose that particular design. After that, we played around with a drone simulator and GreenSeeker, which measures the amount of nitrogen in the leaf.
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