Courtney Kimmel 
Grantee: Fall Creek Middle School – Fall Creek, WI Project Title: Cricket Crawlers Grant Type: ecoSolution Description: The seventh-grade students at Fall Creek Middle School started from scratch and created an environmentally sustainable worm growing company using leaves and food waste from the school cafeteria! At the end of the school year, the students packaged … Read more
Grantee: The Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County – Chester County, PA Project Title: Free Time Adventures in Nature Grant Type: ecoTech Description: During TLC’s Free Time Adventures in Nature program, over 100 children got a chance to explore the creeks, meadows, ponds, and woodlands of the 300-acre Bucktoe Creek Preserve! Activities were centered around … Read more
Grantee: Keep Austin Beautiful – Austin, TX Project Title: Clean Creek Campus Grant Type: ecoSolution Description: The urban elementary and middle school students of Austin, Texas had a blast learning to make responsible decisions regarding the environment and its sustainability! Through scavenger hunts and clean-ups, the students learned how they impact their environment and how to … Read more
Grantee: Spanish River High School – Boca Raton, FLProject Title: Coral Micro-fragmentation ProjectGrant Type: ecoSolution This hands-on experience allowed students to be engaged in coral research and instill a passion for marine science in young minds.– a Spanish River High School Teacher Description: Coral reefs around the world are declining rapidly. In order to do their part … Read more
Grantee: Spanish River High School – Boca Raton, FL Project Title: Coral Micro-fragmentation Project Grant Type: ecoSolution This hands-on experience allowed students to be engaged in coral research and instill a passion for marine science in young minds. – a Spanish River High School Teacher Description: Coral reefs around the world are declining rapidly. In … Read more
Grantee: Little Silver Board of Education – Point Road School – Little Silver, NJ Project Title: Pollination Partners- Engaging and Encouraging our Local Eco-System Grant Type: ecoSolution Description: The students at Point Road Elementary School are connecting with their local pollinators! With the help of community experts, alumni, and beekeepers, the students studied bees and … Read more
Grantee: New York City H2O Inc. – New York City, NY Project Title: Water Ecology & Engineering Field Trips for Title I Schools Grant Type: ecoTech Description: In 2014, NYC H2O began offering free Water Ecology and Engineering Field Trips to New York City public schools. They’ve reached out to over 7,900 students, and are … Read more
Grantee: Kestrel Educational Adventures Project Title: Millbrook Pond Wildlife Relocation and Study Project Grant Type: ecoSolution Students were thrilled to be spending most of the day outside collecting and analyzing data on the life of one of their nearby green spaces. – a Kestrel Educational Adventures Official Description: Millbrook Pond has slowly been eutrophying over … Read more
Grantee: Hamburg Community School District – Hamburg, IA Project Title: Green Electricity Grant Type: ecoSolution Description: The students studied how wind energy works and built a wind turbine using an inventor kit. The wind turbine is a 1500 watt generator which will provide energy to a farm school which doesn’t have any electricity on site. Continuous impact/Community … Read more
Grantee: The 5 Gyres Institute Project Title: Mi Mar/My Sea Grant Type: ecoSolution 5 Gyres Mi Mar/My Sea pilot program was a tremendous success. – 5 Gyres Offical Description: 5 Gyres launched the Mi Mar/My Sea Program to engage underserved high school students in one-day research expeditions to learn about plastic pollution through hands-on citizen science … Read more