Round 2 2022 ITSC Project Funding Recipients
Danville Middle School’s Green Team
Danville Middle School
Pollinator Garden: DCSM will continue to the work they began last school year on the garden with the goal to organize and give educational tours for elementary schools students.
Vegetable Garden: DCSM Garden Club will take over the care for the vegetable garden. The produce collected from the garden will continue to be donated to a local food bank.
Champion: Lori Baker
DCHS Students
Decatur Central High School
(new itsc cohort)
Campus Beautification Project: DCHS students will improve the appearance and ecosystem of the campus grounds. Students designed areas on campus that will include native pollinator wildflowers, native trees, flowering shrubs and more seating areas. The project will also include a learning lab for gardening that was designed by students.
DCHS School Wide Recycling: DCHS students will increase the number of recycling bins in the school hallways and cafeteria to help reduce the ecological footprint of the school.
Champion: Aimee Hawley
Good Shepherd Green Team
Good Shepherd Montessori School (new itsc cohort)
Permaculture Guild Plantings: Students will design and install permaculture guilds that will each feature a fruit tree at their center. The four guilds will include a collection of companion perennial plants as well as native and food producing plants.
Champion: Therese Niemier
Holy Angels Green Team.
holy angels catholic school
LED Lighting: The Unique Roots class has a desire to focus on energy usage in the school. The school will replace their parking lot lighting with LED lighting. Students will research lighting options, calculated projected energy and cost savings, and design a plan for how to reinvest savings into other resources for other Unique Roots initiatives.
Champion: Justin Armitage
The Oaks Academy School Garden
The Oaks Academy - Fall Creek
(new itsc cohort)
Food Rescue: The school will begin a two-pronged effort to reduce food waste in the school. The first part of the project entails collecting unopened, uneaten lunch items at the end of lunch and then donating them to a food bank each week. The second part of the project is around beginning a Gardening Club that helps students learn about the consequences of food waste and practice a Bokashi composting system.
Through the Winter: The school's Green Team will use funds for the upkeep of club activities through the winter, such as chaperoned field trips to native prairie landscapes and the school's partner food bank, as well as funds for craft and cooking supplies.
Champion: Leah McMichael
Space at The Oaks Academy that will be transformed into a native plant garden
The Oaks Academy - Martindale Brightwood (new itsc cohort)
Native Plant Garden: The school will use funds to construct a playground and a native plant garden. The garden will give students a chance to interact with plants, insects, and birds that are native to Indiana during class and at recess. They will also add a path to facilitate exploration, an herb spiral built from reclaimed wood found on the playground, and an in-ground worm composting system that doubles a bench and planting area.
Champion: Leah McMichael
Richmond Green Team
Richmond High School
(new itsc cohort)
RHS Recycling Improvement Project: RHS would like to improve their current recycling system. The school recycles white paper, plastic #1 & #2, and aluminum cans that The Green Club collects on a biweekly basis. RHS would like to use funds to purchase rolling carts and respective, marked plastic recycling bins for teachers. The plastic bins would make collection more sanitary and efficient. The funds will also be used to boost classroom participation in the recycling program.
Native Pollinator Garden & Outdoor Learning Lab Project: RHS will use funds to renovate a courtyard that is currently full of invasive plants and is not used for education or enrichment. RHS will install a pollinator garden and create an outdoor learning lab in the new courtyard.
Champion: Ashley Gray
This garden space will be reclaimed and transformed into an outdoor classroom
Roots Program (new itsc cohort)
Deep Roots: ROOTS will use funding to reclaim unkempt and overgrown areas of their newly-purchased school for gardens, composing, and an outdoor learning space. The project will include a "Butterfly Garden", a "Salsa Garden", a "Green Goodness Garden", a "Sugar and Spice Garden" and a "Berry Patch".
This project will also have an indoor greenhouse for seed sowing, accessible planting benches, compost bins, and an outdoor learning lab amphitheater. Recognizing that gardening and nature connection offer positive experiences for students, the ROOTS program will build on their current trauma-informed work.
Champion: Ami Anderson
SCL students installing a row cover to extend the growing season.
School for community learning
Expanding School Garden: SCL will use funds to construct a greenhouse that will serve as a classroom for sustainability programming and support plants and seedlings year long.
Tall Raised Beds: SCL will use funds to build one or two 4 foot raised beds in order to accommodate people who cannot bend over to plant, tend, or harvest the garden.
Champion: Patricia Wildhack
SENSE Charter’s Green Team Leadership team.
Southeast Neighborhood School of Excellence
Recycling Warriors: Funds will be used to bring back their recycling program, which slipped to the background during COVID. The school's ultimate goal is to recycle everything that can be recycled, including food. The school will begin recycling paper each day and the Green Team will take it to the paper dumpster weekly.
Where Does Our Food Come From: Expansion of their eco-library with books focused on nutrition, sustainability practices in farming, plights of farmers and more. Utilizing SENSE’s food garden as a hands on learning lab.
Champion: Jessica Tyler
Victory College Prep Green Team leaders.
victory college prep
Composting Expansion Project: Funds will be used to add compositing signs for educational small groups, build a three section aerobic composting site, add an outdoor vermicomposting station, and add food waste buckets to the school's cafeteria and kitchen.
Champion: Tim Grazian