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Today saw a number of people of importance ( ;) ) walking through our school aquaponics system. Yep, Mr Malcolm Turnbull and his associates visited Peace Lutheran College to present us with our green voucher ($50000 to spend on water projects - we intend to install several cement in ground water tanks).
Part of the grant application outlined how the aquaponics project and school nursery would make a great deal of use of the water stored in the proposed water tanks. So, whilst here, Mr Malcolm Turnbull visited our AP project and had a good look around and asked a LOT of questions. I was pleasantly surprised at how many questions he and his numerious staff asked about AP and how/why we do it. In fact they expressed how impressed they were by the concept of AP! This in one politician who seems interested in aquaponics and seems to clearly see the benefits of it, both in the city and in our outlying communities :)


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File comment: examining one of the AP systems
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File comment: Mr Malcolm Turnbul presents Peace Students with a Green Voucher
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File comment: Examining some of the AP produce
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File comment: Students show off more AP items to Mr Turnbull
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File comment: Peace Students and Mr Turnbull examine one of the fish tanks
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File comment: Myself (far left) Mr Malcolm Turnbull and 2 of our students discuss how we intend to further develop our AP system
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File comment: Looking at plant growth and insect life
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File comment: looking at insect damage on an AP grown leaf
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SO was he impressed AM?
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File comment: Discussion what we have stocked in the past, are stocking now and will in the future - as well discussing how well this system works
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File comment: One of our students explains how we intend to used AP to benefit our school.
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LOL steve! :lol: Looks good! ;)

He and his staff were far more interested and even slightly impressed about Aquaponics than I could have hoped for. My students were answering questions on all sides all the time... they were so excited that people wanted to know about AP, and they explained it so very well too - made this teacher so very proud!
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check the portal page AM, you do us proud ;)
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:oops: Geeeee... :oops:
you embarrass me :oops
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Which one is Tiger AM?
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HAHAHAHHA, for a minute i thought the logo on the kids shirts was the BYAP one!

I thought you'd lost the plot Mr AM :)
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:? Ehh well I'm glad to see the pictures AM!! But I look really terrible in some of them :x

It is so great that our school was able to get so much funding for the water tanks (that are mainly for AP)!

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Tiger could not make it - he was helping at our sports carnival :mrgreen:

Welcome CHOCOLATE-CRAZY - feel free to brows the forum... CHOCOLATE-CRAZY is one of the students in the photos posted here and one of my own students :) The above ground system is his...
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I forgot to mention he is also an owner of one of the limited edition AP caps :)
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G'day C-C, have you convinced your parents to install an aquaponics system at home yet? ;)
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G'day Crazy, well done to you and your fellow students. We know how infectious Mr D can be when in his own little AP world and glad to see it has rubbed off on you young people as well :thumbup:
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