Idea #1 from Group 5

Our first idea for the challenge is for 3 high schools (or more) in the same area to compete with each other by planting crops in their rooftop buildings. Every school will have the same size of land to work with and they will have a selection of crops to grow. Each school will have to sell the plants to get the most money possible within a specific time period (3-4 months) to win the competition. A valuable gardening experience that is rarely seen from the youth in these days will be learnt along with the business aspect of planting what will generate the most profit from the specified constraints. All school will have the same single crop selling location in order to avoid too much price differentiation and the teacher in each school will keep track of the sales records. The final sales could be held and announced the winner at Kaset Fair (Kasetsart U). Hopefully, we can convince PTT or SCG to sponsor the event to create enough attention for high schools to accept this challenge. It has been known that PTT and SCG are very environmental conscious with the growing mangrove forest projects and etc. The prize will be all the money from each school sales combined plus the sponsor's money.

In order to create long-term impact, the land will continue to be used as garden with the care of students and faculties once the competition is over. Supplying school grown vegetables will ensure the health of the students as well as cutting some expenses. The same competition can be held next year if the schools are still interested to do so.