The Sci-Tech­KnoFest, Ni­herst's sig­na­ture event, re­turned this month at the Na­tion­al Sci­ence Cen­tre.This year's theme-iCre­ate, iIn­no­vate and iS­us­tain-fo­cused on teach­ing vis­i­tors about dis­as­ter pre­pared­ness, re­new­able en­er­gy, cre­ativ­i­ty and in­no­va­tion, wa­ter re­source man­age­ment, and food pro­duc­tion and food se­cu­ri­ty.Stu­dents from through­out T&T were able to see and par­tic­i­pate in a va­ri­ety of ex­cit­ing and ed­u­ca­tion­al ex­hibits, rang­ing from the tech­no­log­i­cal to the mu­si­cal to the en­vi­ron­men­tal.This year, Dig­i­cel spon­sored tours for chil­dren from three rur­al schools to at­tend the fes­ti­val. Stu­dents from Fish­ing Pond Pres­by­ter­ian, Man­zanil­la, San­ta Ri­ta RC, Tabaquite and the Ear­ly Child­hood Learn­ing Cen­tre of Point Fortin, were able to at­tend the fes­ti­val, in­ter­act­ing with sci­ence in a mean­ing­ful way, while learn­ing about the im­por­tance of con­ser­va­tion, cre­ativ­i­ty and in­no­va­tion in the de­vel­op­ment of our na­tion and the world.The stu­dents were en­gaged by in­ter­est­ing ex­hibits such as Fu­ture World, Pan through the Ages, and The Tech­kno The­atre, which fea­tured en­ter­tain­ing shows such as Car­toon Sci­ence, The Fu­ture is Food, and Waste Not, Want Not.The Rag­ing Plan­et ex­hib­it was par­tic­u­lar­ly pop­u­lar, as the chil­dren were able to ex­pe­ri­ence the force of a cat­e­go­ry one hur­ri­cane in the wind tun­nel or test the seis­mome­ter by at­tempt­ing to cre­ate their own tremors with fren­zied jump­ing and stamp­ing.Armed with their new­ly-ac­quired knowl­edge and very cool Dig­i­cel-do­nat­ed cool­er bags and lunch kits, the chil­dren were ready to get out there and make our world a bet­ter place.