St. Richard first Edmonton Catholic school to embrace science and environment program

A dozen hands rocket up when teacher Maz Nelson asks for a volunteer to help assemble his latest demonstration.
At St. Richard Catholic Elementary School in Mill Woods, students in a Grade 2 class were learning about what happens to carbon dioxide when it’s released into the atmosphere.
Pupils take turns measuring baking soda and vinegar into a clear plastic bottle, then sit on benches around the demonstration counter in the school’s STEM room. Scattered around them are an aquaponics