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Idaho Teacher of the Year award winner discusses new fish lab at Mackay High School
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Trent Van Leuven has been in Mackay the last 10 years, and currently works with 63 eighth thru twelfth graders in the Ag program.
Officials say Van Leuven has changed the landscape of career technical education in Mackay by enhancing real-world opportunities for students.
One of Van Leuven’s most significant accomplishments, according to Bart Gamett, a fish biologist with the U.S. Forest Service, is the construction of a new fish lab. Here, students work with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game’s Mackay Fish Hatchery to raise rainbow trout, sturgeon, tilapia and catfish.
The 1,400-square-foot building came about after a student expressed interest in raising golden trout. The student was related to Gamett. Van Leuven helped her get surplus fish from the hatchery. The adult fish were later introduced in the Lower Cedar Creek near Mackay. It’s the first golden trout stream in Idaho.
The old fish lab quickly became too small and Van Leuven worked towards getting a bigger building. He acquired about $300,000 from private donors to pay for a new lab. Students, professionals and community members volunteered their time to help build it. It was completed in November 2022.
“This facility will give students the opportunity to work with fish long after Trent has retired,” Gamett wrote in his recommendation letter, according to state officials. Van Leuven talks about the fish lab in the video above.
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