Long-time KCC member Vincent Loos has scooped the top prize at the Incredible Science Competition for a board game that tests kid’s conservation knowledge and their pest-busting know-how.
Vincent with his pest-busting game
The game was designed by the 12-year-old to educate kids 8 years and older about New Zealand’s special plants and animals.
It was his first foray into making board games, but he hopes to create lots more.
By answering conservation questions correctly, players can earn money to buy traps and bait to get rid of the rats, stoats, weasels and possums on the board - all pests that can harm our wildlife and wild places.
Vincent often goes out with his dad to Ark in the Park in the Waitakere Ranges in West Auckland to lay traps and bait, so he has first-hand pest busting knowledge.
For his efforts, Vincent won $200 worth of prizes in books, a prize pack and a trophy.
Incredible Science Competition is run by the University of Auckland Year 7 & 8 students. For details on this competition see here.
