Min Pak, undergraduate student in engineering science and mechanics, and his team with three other Penn Staters to develop a High Tunnel will provide entrepreneurial opportunities for students at the Children and Youth Empowerment Center; is affordable, durable, easily constructible, and sustainable; and allows Kenyan subsistence farmers to increase productivity.

The High Tunnel is relatively inexpensive to construct with a total cost of a little over two hundred dollars. The return on the investment to its Kenyan farmers is approximately one hundred dollars per crop, per harvest. The tunnel can withstand up to three crops per harvest, thus upon its first harvest, the construction of the tunnel is at its break-even point. At its second harvest, the tunnel is turning a profit. Congratulations Min on a great idea!