ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) – Virginia Western Community College has developed a five-week hydroponics project for local high school classrooms, aiming to inspire students to pursue careers in this field.
Officials say the project utilizes a hydroponics tower to grow Buttercrunch lettuce, where a sensor generates graphical visualizations of the data, and students interpret the data collected over the project’s duration.
At the end of the project, students get to taste-test the lettuce. According to officials, students in the Engineering Program at Roanoke County’s Burton Center for Arts & Technology wished each other “Cheers!” before sampling in the fourth week of the program. Students expressed that it tasted fresh, was crunchy, and not bitter at all…