US: State potato commission, CB Tech students share ideas, projects

Students at the Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center presented projects they made in cooperation with the Washington State Potato Commission. Teams from the school’s culinary, multimedia, criminal justice and manufacturing departments designed posters, videos, recipes and exhibits which showed different benefits of the potato as both a food and industry. CB Tech Dean of Students Chad Utter said the presentations were designed to find ways to help draw awareness to the importance of potatoes and agriculture in Grant County. “Without the potato industry, we probably wouldn’t be here, and we recognize that. What these students did this summer was put together projects that highlight how important that is,” Utter said. More