Colorado's Air Academy High School students Blake Danis and Hannah Peters began their senior engineering class with a problem and ended it with a business: Castanova Fishing Nets.
The nets, which are spring-loaded to extend at the press of a button, will be the first of their kind once produced, Danis said.
The class is part of Project Lead the Way, a national nonprofit that is meant to give students a more realistic education in engineering, biomedical science or computer science and prepare them for the workforce. Danis and Peters said it's thanks to their teacher, Jason Buhler, that they were able to design a marketable product and plant the seed for a business they may return to after college.
