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Mar 15, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read Read on X
As British Science week comes to an end, we're looking back at one of our favourite moments from 2019 where we turned Ronald Ross Primary School in central London into a farm for the day [Thread 1/4] ImageImageImageImage
This was all thanks to eight year old Afeefa who won our Farmvention competition - a national science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) program that gets children thinking about food and farming [2/4]
Afeefa's tractor of the future design was chosen from more than 1,000 entries having impressed the judges with her innovative eco-friendly drone zip line that protects soil structures by sowing, maintaining and picking the crop from above [3/4]
If you want to learn more about how we're getting food and farming in schools near you, visit the @NFUEducation website education.nfuonline.com [4/4]

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