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R-R-MR High School student participates World Food Prize Global Youth Institute

DES MOINES — Kelli Wicks of Rudd-Rockford-Marble Rock High School was among the select students nominated to attend the World Food PrizeGlobal Youth Institute Oct. 13-15, in Des Moines during the Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium.
The symposium drew 1,500 people from more than 60 countries to discuss the world’s hunger and food security issues. The World Food Prize was founded by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug to recognize and inspire great achievements in improving the quality, quantity and availability of food in the world.This year’s World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium focused on the theme “Let Food Be Thy Medicine.”

At the three-day Institute, Wicks and 200 other high school student participants of the program from across the United States and abroad researched global food security issues in the developing country of their choice and then submitted papers on those critical topics, which they also presented to a diverse group of internationally renowned World Food Prize Laureates and other distinguished experts and scientists.

Wicks wrote a paper on the theme ‘Feeding Innovation, Fighting Hunger” and took part in roundtable discussions with experts in industry, science, academia and policy on the culminating day of the program hosted by DuPont Pioneer at its Carver Conference Center in Johnston, Iowa. During the Institute, participants also helped with a hands-on service project packaging meals for Outreach, Inc., a hunger-fighting organization that serves people in the United States and internationally and they toured innovative research and industrial facilities in Adel, Des Moines, Panora and Slater, Iowa.

They also took part in an interactive Oxfam Hunger Banquet that brought to life the realities of hunger and poverty.
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