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Four students from Austin High School have been selected to attend the Global Youth Institute, part of the World Food Prize Foundation. 

The students will be among the 150 student delegates from around the world that will participate in the World Food Prize Conference alongside world leaders in Des Moines, Iowa this October. 

The students selected to serve as Minnesota delegates from Austin High School including their research topics are:

• Chloe Cannon – Poor Infrastructure in Rural Romania
• Makayla Dokpodjo – The United Arab Emirates: Turning Deserts into Greenhouses
• Sabreen Nagid – Political Causes of Starvation in Sudan
• Isabella Rosenthal – Improving Belize’s Food Waste and Food Production

At the conference, students will have the opportunity to share their research findings in roundtable discussions with leaders in the fields of science, industry, and policy. They will attend workshops and sessions on global food security, agriculture, and sustainability, and participate in the Feeding a Fragile World Simulation to grow their understanding of food challenges facing our world.

 To prepare to attend the Global Youth Institute, the students researched a global food security issue. They presented their research at the Minnesota Youth Institute in May 2024 and because of their performance at the institute were invited to participate in interviews held to select student delegates to represent Minnesota.

 The students’ participation would not have been possible without the support of their teacher and mentor Lisa Sanders and community partners Hormel Foods and the Hometown Food Security Project.
To learn more about the Global Youth Institute and the World Food Prize please visit the Global Youth Institute website at https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/youth_programs/global_youth_institute/.