Shaun Burkhalter and Jaxon Howell will travel to Canberra next week to attend a river health conference.

Glenorchy Primary is one of more than 150 schools from around Australia coming together from October 18 to 20 for the only environment event held by kids for kids.

Shaun and Jaxon will join 2000 others at the 2009 Murray Darling Basin International River Health Conference where they will learn about environmental issues and actions, through drama, comedy, song and imagination.

As well as getting their hands dirty doing environmental work, the students will get to quiz senior politicians, celebrities and activists on climate change, take part in special gala dinners and attend a farewell function where they take over Questacon.

While in Canberra, Shaun and Jaxon will be taking part in the 10 year anniversary of the internationally recognised and innovate `Kids Teaching Kids' events which have involved over 15,000 Australian children.

However, it will not be all hard work.

On the first day of the conference students will visit sites around Canberra and attend a special dinner with MC's Luke Jacobs and Rebecca Breeds from Home and Away. They will also hear from WWF Youth Ambassador Parrys Raines.

The following day, the students from Glenorchy will have the opportunity to meet politicians and celebrities including Claire Hooper from Good News Week, Josh Thomas from Talking 'Bout Your Generation, Natalie Hunter from Totally Wild and activists Dan Adams from Make Poverty History and Tim Costello of World Vision.

For the remainder of the trip Shaun and Jaxon will participate in workshops to learn what other young people are doing for the environment. The workshops will involve, quizzes, comedy, dance, song and experiments.

Students will also undertake environmental work including water testing, bird box making, building water saving devices and no-dig gardens, planting seedlings, revegetating areas and learning about indigenous art and heritage.