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Trinidad and To­ba­go se­cured 2nd place in the Se­nior Di­vi­sion of the in­ter­na­tion­al NASEF Farm­craft 2025 Glob­al Com­pe­ti­tion, mark­ing the coun­try’s high­est fin­ish in the event. The com­pe­ti­tion was host­ed by the Net­work of Aca­d­e­m­ic and Scholas­tic Es­ports Fed­er­a­tions and used the Minecraft Ed­u­ca­tion plat­form to in­te­grate agri­cul­ture, sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy.

Rep­re­sent­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go were two Queen’s Roy­al Col­lege stu­dents, Saleem De­venish, 14, and Shiloh Atwell, 13. The pair com­pet­ed against more than 25,000 stu­dents from 73 coun­tries. The re­sult was an­nounced on De­cem­ber 10.

Prepa­ra­tion for the com­pe­ti­tion be­gan in April, when the stu­dents en­tered the Pre-Farm­craft Chal­lenge. They were re­quired to de­sign a sus­tain­able farm and forestry sys­tem based on en­vi­ron­ments found in Trinidad and To­ba­go. Their prepa­ra­tion in­clud­ed on­line col­lab­o­ra­tion through What­sApp, re­search on the agri­cul­tur­al theme “Land De­mand”, and test­ing lay­outs with­in Minecraft Ed­u­ca­tion.