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Captain Planet Foundation and Delta Air Lines renew their partnership to bring Project Learning Garden® to Los Angeles and Detroit!

Application Deadline: November 15, 2025
Deadline Extended to December 12, 2025

Captain Planet Foundation’s (CPF) Project Learning Garden Program is replete with opportunities to support inquiry-based, immersive learning experiences in STEAM education for students of all levels and ages. In conjunction with applied principles of project-based learning, gardens provide teachers and students with outdoor laboratories full of natural phenomena to be observed, explored, questioned, and investigated. Gardens provide meaningful anchors where standard learning objectives merge with real-world experiences, making many of the concepts we teach relevant and relatable to students’ lives.

And let’s not forget the yummy stuff! School gardens provide an excellent opportunity to develop young palates for a variety of fresh, healthy fruits and vegetables. CPF’s mobile cooking cart, complete with a Vitamix blender and induction burner, gives school teachers everything they need to do a harvest and tasting event in the garden or classroom year-round.

This 5 year partnership, which began during the 2021-22 school year, brings to life Delta’s mission to support the communities where they live, work and serve while having a positive impact on the environment and supporting education. Delta employees may volunteer to help install and harvest the gardens at all schools selected under this program, and your school may be selected for a special media day and tasting event!

Delta PLG schools will receive:

• Five raised garden beds
• Fully-equipped Mobile Cooking Cart to prepare garden-fresh recipes
• Access to CPF’s online garden-based lessons, spanning all content areas and grade levels
• Materials and supplies to support project-based lessons and garden-based learning activities
• Online professional development and training for teachers
• Strategy for summer garden maintenance
• Eligible for a Delta Employee volunteer day for garden installation

Package valued at $7,500

To be eligible, an Entrant must be nominating an accredited elementary school located in the following Territories:

For Los Angeles: School must reside in a school system of the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area.

For Detroit: School must reside in a school system of the greater Detroit metropolitan area.

Delta Air Lines

Delta’s mission to connect the world starts with its commitment to being a strong partner to the communities where our employees and customers live, work and serve. Focused on the pillars of Environment, Equity, Education and Entire Wellness, Delta invests its time and resources to care for the planet and the people within it. As a purpose and values-driven company, giving back to our communities has been core to Delta and its culture for the past 100 years. Delta has been recognized as one of the 50 most community-minded companies in the U.S. as an honoree of The Civic 50 by Points of Light for the past eight years in a row. As the leading global airline, Delta’s mission to connect the world creates opportunities, fosters understanding and expands horizons by connecting people and communities to each other and to their own potential. Connect with Delta on Delta News Hub, delta.com, via @DeltaNewsHub on X and Facebook.com/delta.