Bob Welsh loves helping young people in "finding their future." He’s the founder of the Harrisburg nonprofit Jump Street, 100 N. Cameron St., which in its 16-year history has helped many individuals in the Central Pennsylvania region.
This month, Welsh teamed up with two regional companies as he gave some 500 students, mostly from Steelton-Highspire High School and Harrisburg’s Marshall Math and Science Academy, a chance to find their futures through a unique method. It’s called aquaponics.
Welsh and Jump Street’s "School to Table" program teamed up with Harrisburg’s Zoetic Global to create an aquaponics system that allows students to grow fish and learn about business at the same time.
Their system, built by Zoetic, was on display at the recent Pennsylvania Farm Show, where thousands of visitors saw the system — a fish tank and planting beds with special grow lights — up close.