Tropical North Queensland Drought Hub (TNQDH) Program Lead Kara-Glenn Worth was invited to attend GrowHer, a program designed to transform the future of agriculture by empowering Year 7 – 12 girls across regional Queensland to engage in the AgTech industry. The students learnt about the challenges facing agriculture, AgTech innovations and were partnered with a mentor to take them through learning how to pitch an idea to solve one of those challenges.
Kara spoke about her career journey and shared practical examples on how the tool AgValuate was helping to solve producer questions around innovation within their business. Kara said “It was such a pleasure to attend GrowHer. It is so inspiring and encouraging to see the calibre of young people interested in careers in agriculture.
“As a mentor I worked with 4 young girls from Ayr and Townsville on an idea around ‘reducing farm waste and optimising marketing for a fruit and veggie farming family’. The girls developed and presented opportunities such as delivering fruit and veggie boxes via drones and opening the farm to people to collect their own produce.”
The winning team from Charters Towers will represent GrowHer at an innovation event later in the year.
The TNQDH was honoured to be involved with GrowHer – Advancing Young Female Founders through AgTech, proudly funded by Advance Queensland as part of the Regional Enablers Program, as part of our commitment to building the future, knowledge and skills of agriculture in Tropical North Queensland.
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