A Wellington County high school student has won a national competition sponsored by 4-H Canada.
Charlene Elliot's winning concept is a freestall dairy barn scraper.
She calls it Lugano 100.
Elliot says it would be shaped like a ceiling fan blade that would be angled so it can push sand from the bedding area into the regular alley to be moved out of the barn by the alley scraper.
She figures automating the process will cut down on the amount of time farmers need to spend washing and re-bedding.
Elliot's father has a 90 cow dairy herd in the Kenilworth area.
This was the first year of the contest, designed by 4-H Canada to introduce it's members to science.
