2015-16 GreenWorks! Grant Award Winners

School State Project Title Description Students will work to restore a pond on their school site Nevada City School of the Arts CA P.O.P. – Preserve Our Pond through replanting native species. Students will build four academic : botanical, rock, English, and art, while using exclusively native California Franklin High School CA FHS Project . Students will also be building a rain water recovery system for the gardens to maintain them during droughts. With the assistance of California Project Learning Tree, Arcade Fundamental Middle School Native Oak students are working to develop a planting project that will Arcade Fundamental Middle School CA Cultivation and Planting allow them to test the hypothesis that acorns grow better than potted seedlings. Third grade students will research, plan and create a butterfly Creating Community Pride and Learning with a Sycamore Elementary CA garden using drought resistant native plants in order to attract Butterfly Garden pollinators back to the area. Preschool students will have the opportunity to work with Douglas County Early Childhood Department CO Roxborough Preschool Garden their teachers to create their own outdoor learning environment. At risk students are introduced to composting and in the school environment by learning how to grow their own Regan Elementary School CT Regan sustainable fruit and vegetable garden which they will then utilize in their homes to provide their families with healthy and affordable foods.

The Young Audubon Club participants will participate in a Habitat Replacement for Monarchs & Painted habitat replacement for painted monarch and painted Audubon of Martin County Inc FL Buntings buntings. Students will assist in planting milkweed and millet to help reestablish the declining population. Students will plan and implement a recycling program at their University Academy FL Let's Go Recycling school by establishing recycling centers in each classroom, office, workroom and lunchroom. Students will actively participate in composting all uneaten food and scraps from breakfast and lunch plus inedible plant material from the school garden. and worm tea will be used by students to nourish existing school gardens, Odyssey Charter School FL Nuturing Nature and Nutrition organic geoponic veggie farm and hydroponic food garden. To assist the low-income community, the gardens will supply both the healthy school lunch program and a student-run farmer’s market to provide nutritious whole foods to local in- need families.

Through urban farming, low income and homeless students Central Middle School HI Urban Farming will be able to restore a deserted garden through hydroponic planting and grow their own fruits and vegetables. Students will learn the various cycles of plant reproduction Grow Labs Environmental Learning & Sustainability Elementary School District 159 IL through establishing a grow lab and work to sustain a reading Project garden. Students will recycle lunchtime waste containers to aid in the Mother Teresa Catholic Academy IL School Recycling and Courtyard Garden Area restoration of their courtyard garden area by creating planting beds and planting vegetation. Students will construct cold frames and raised beds for a vegetable garden on the schools campus that will be used in Casey County Board of Education KY Backpack Garden the school's backpack program which provides students and families in need with backpacks full of food every Friday to help them through the weekend. The Manchester Essex Green Team will design a tower and tank garden in order to grow vegetables Manchester Essex Green Team MA Hydroponics & Aquaponics through Solar Power that will be more cost efficient and will allow the students to supply food to a local shelter.

6th, 7th and 8th grade students will design stewardship projects for the school yard to help reduce runoff into a local C.A. Frost PTSA MI Water On The Move! We Care For Our Watershed! creek. Each grade level will be undertaking a different aspect of the project from designing to building.

Students will participate in a year-long project in which they will build underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), program sensors to take depth, temperature, pH, and Using Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles to dissolved oxygen measurements to study the quality of Millington Community Schools MI Study Water Quality Murphy Lake, and program a controller for better mobility. Groups will build devices to take water samples in order to perform chemical testing in the classroom or to look for objects at the bottom of the lake for removal. Students involved in the Green Team will build a raised bed Ann Arbor STEAM at Northside PTO MI Growing Greens with a clear cover where they will use composted paper towels to grow mint and spinach. Students will work to establish a school garden that will Gerrard Berman Day School NJ It's a Green New Year provide vegetables for the classroom and expand their recycling program. Students will select an animal to study that they have observed The Synergy of Animals and Plants: Children Report in the Learning Garden and will then plant native plants that New Mexico Museum of Natural History NM to the Public What They Learn in the Kiwanis benefit the animal, build structures to feed or house the Foundation Learning Garden animal and study the synergy between the native plants and their selected animal. 7th-8th grade students will restore 1-acre of unused land into native white oaks savanna. Students will research native plants and produce thorough mapping of the area, measuring water Springwater Environmental Sciences School OR The Springwater White Oaks Savanna saturation and soil conditions. The 7th-8th grade students will then teach Kindergarten and 1st grade students lessons of their studies and work together to plant and grow an oaks savanna.

Vegetable garden beds will be constructed by low income kindergarten students with the help of their teachers to Explore! Community School TN Edible Education at Explore! Community School expose students for the first time to the connection between food and the cycle of nature. Students will grow their own healthy food conducive to the growing season. Environmental systems student will study the role of native Pollinator habitats and food garden in “The Fruit Tree plants and pollinators in an agricultural environment by Eastside Memorial High School TX Courtyard” at Eastside Memorial High School at the creating a habitat and foraging areas for a variety of native Johnston Campus pollinator species and build a space for a fruit and vegetable garden. Students while learning about planting and garden yield BRCS Smart Gardens: Conservation Monitoring Bear River Charter School UT factors, will develop a remote sensing garden that will Through Technology determine on its own how much water and light it needs.

Special needs students at the Lafayatte School will have the opportunity to establish and maintain a Therapeutic Garden as Lafayette School VA Lafayette School Therapeutic Garden a means to provide therapy and relaxation for all students while also providing them with healthy snack alternatives.