The U.S. Green Building Council-Missouri Gateway Chapter is challenging public and private schools in Missouri and southern Illinois to devise and implement, with the help of green mentors, the most creative, effective and no or low cost sustainable practices for their schools. Each school participating in the Green Schools Quest Project goals include will be encouraged to form a Green Team. Teams may be a single classroom, a student club,  Conserve natural resources a grade level, or an entire school. Each team will select  Lower school operating & maintenance costs a low or no cost project to begin in October 2018 and  Improve learning & teaching environments conclude in March 2019. Projects must be new or major  Encourage students to think creatively about extensions of existing initiatives at the school. sustainability  Promote environmental stewardship A USGBC-MGC Green Mentor will be assigned to in our communities assist to each Green Team. The mentor will help with  Improve indoor air quality ideas, documentation, and community resources. Each  Encourage youth to appreciate and model Green Team will document their project’s impacts and sustainable practices submit outcomes for judging in March 2019.  Energize sustainability curriculum in schools  Engage the business community and building industry to help students green their schools Green Schools Quest 2018-19 Schedule Recognition for Outstanding Registration opens for schools & mentors ------April 12, 2018 Achievement Mentor registration deadline ------August 31, 2018 Winners will be chosen in the Elementary, School registration deadline ------September 15, 2018 Middle, and High School Categories: 1st place: $600 and trophy Schools and Mentors 2nd place: $400 and trophy implement projects ------Oct 2018 to Mar 2019 3rd place: $200 and trophy

Submit outcomes for judging ------March 10, 2019 Additional awards will be given for: Winners announced ------April 2019 Rookie of the Year (first time participating) Awards presented ------May 2019 Sustainability Champion (3 or more years participation) Focus of the Year: Energy Part of the Center for Green Schools Judges’ Choice Green Apple Day of Service Innovation

2018 - 19 Green Schools Champions Ameren Missouri * Saint Louis County Department of Public Health 2018- 19 Green Schools Supporters Innovative Technology Education Fund * Trane

With support from St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste Management District & Missouri Department of Natural Resources More information and registration at www.usgbc-mogateway.org/green-school-quest Past Participants of the Green Schools Quest

The following schools have participated one or more years since the program launched in 2013.

A Growing Place Montessori School Marian Middle School Bellerive Elementary School Mascoutah Elementary School (Mascoutah CUSD 19) Bishop DuBourg High School Mason Ridge Elementary (Parkway SD) Brentwood Middle School (Brentwood SD) Meramec Elementary (Clayton SD) Bourbon High School Metro Academic and Classical High School (St. Louis Public SD) Cardinal Ritter College Preparatory High School MICDS Lower School Carver Elementary School Motivational Achievement Center (Alton CUSD 11) Casa de Ninos Mullanphy Investigative Learning Center (St. Louis Public SD) Chanminade Nahed Chapman New American Academy (St. Louis Public SD) Chesterfield Day School New City School Children's House Montessori Nipher Middle School (Kirkwood SD) Christ Community Lutheran School North Glendale Elementary School (Kirkwood) Christ, Prince of Peace School North Kirkwood Middle School (Kirkwood SD) Claymont Elementary School Notre Dame High School City Academy Nottingham CAJT High School (St. Louis Public SD) City Garden Montessori Charter School Oak Hill Elementary School (St. Louis Public SD) Collegiate School of Medicine & Bioscience (St. Louis Public SD) Oakville Middle School (Mehlville SD) Community School Pamoja Preparatory Academy @ Cole (St. Louis Public SD) Confluence Preparatory Academy Parkway Central High School (Parkway SD) Coolidge Junior High (Granite City CUSD 9) Parkway North High School (Parkway SD) Coordinated Youth and Human Services Prairie View Elementary School (Wentzville) Craig Elementary (Parkway SD) Paul Laurence Dunbar (St. Louis Public SD) Crossroads College Preparatory School Premier Charter School Cross Keys Middle School (Ferguson Florissant) Principia School Duchesne: PROBE Gifted Center 2-5 (Ferguson Florissant) Ritenour Center for Gifted Education (Ritenour) East Elementary (Alton CUSD 11) River Bend Elementary (Parkway SD) Edgar Road Elementary School (Webster Groves SD) Robinson Elementary (Kirkwood SD) Edwardsville High School (Edwardsville CUSD 7) Rockwood Summit (Rockwood SD) Eureka Elementary School (Rockwood) Rockwood Valley Middle School (Rockwood) ETS@Madison (St. Louis Public SD) Rogers Middle School (Affton SD) Ford Elementary (St. Louis Public SD) Rohan Woods School Forsyth School Roosevelt School (Belleville CUSD 118) Gateway Michael School (Saint Louis Public) Rose Acres Elementary (Pattonville SD) Gateway MST Elementary (St. Louis Public SD) Ross Elementary (Parkway SD) Gateway Science Academy of St Louis Sappington Elementary (Lindbergh SD) Gentry Middle School (Columbia Pubic SD) Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School Glenridge Elementary (Clayton SD) Soldan International Studies High School (St. Louis Public SD) Grand Center Arts Academy Sorrento Springs Elementary (Parkway SD) Greenwood Laboratory School St. Clare of Assisi Governor French Academy - Lower School St. Francis of Assisi School Governor French Academy - Middle School St. Joseph's Academy Governor French Academy - Upper School St. Libory School (St Libory SD 30) Hancock Place Elementary (Hancock Place SD) St. Louis University High School Hancock Place School District (Hancock Place SD) St. Margaret of Scotland Hazelwood East Middle (Hazelwood SD) St. Mary Magdalen Hazelwood West High School Steger Highcroft Ridge Elementary School (Parkway) Sunrise R-IX Elementary (Sunrise R-IX SD) Hoech Middle School (Ritenour SD) Soulard School Holy Redeemer The College School Horace Mann Elementary (St. Louis Public SD) Thomas Jefferson Middle School (Jefferson City Public SD) Jackson Park Elementary School (University City) Tillman Elementary (Kirkwood SD) James A. Avant Elementary School (East Saint Louis CUSD 189) Uthoff Valley Elementary (Rockwood SD) Jennings Senior High School (Jennings SD) Valley Park Elementary (Valley Park SD) John Burroghs School Venice Elementary (Venice CUSD 3) Kennard Classical Junior Academy (St. Louis Public SD) W.W. Keysor Elementary School (Kirkwood SD) Kirkwood High School (Kirkwood SD) Westchester Elementary School (Kirkwood) Little Flower Catholic School Webster Elementary School (Collinsville CUSD 10) Mallinckrodt Academy (St. Louis Public SD) Westchester Elementary (Kirkwood SD) Maplewood Richmond Heights Early Childhood Center (MRH SD) Wilkinson Early Childhood Center (St. Louis Public SD) Maplewood Richmond Heights Middle School (MRH SD) The Wilson School MICDS Middle School Wren Hollow Elementary (Parkway SD) MICDS Upper School

More information and registration at www.usgbc-mogateway.org/green-school-quest