Round 2 2023 ITSC Project Funding Recipients
Clinton Young Elementary
Fall Learning Garden: Students at Clinton Young will plant and tend to a fall produce garden that they will harvest and share with the entire school.
Rain Garden: Off of the Learning Garden the rock path will continue on to a rain garden that will be created. The Garden Club will help to dig out the dirt to create the area and then we will add sand, topsoil, and compost. They will then plant plants that will benefit from being planted in a rain garden. We will top the area with mulch to help retain the moisture
Champion: Kim Butler
Good Shepherd Montessori
Water Conservation Signage: The student Green Team will design a sign to reflect the water capture system they are installing including the working parts, potential collection and distribution of water. Text will inform readers of the potential, how they calculated potential and projected annual savings in ground water use and dollars. Possibly include the total cost of the installation.
Champion: Therese Niemier
Indian Creek Elementary
Accessible Garden Bed Expansion: This will allow Indian Creek students who have to use wheelchairs due to a physical disability full access to their garden so that they can participate in garden club.
Champion: LaMonica Henson
Lakeside Elementary
Harvesting for Hoosiers Part 2: To improve the watering system at Lakeside, the students will review the current watering system layout to see which areas of the garden need additional soaker hoses. There will be classroom planning sessions and in-garden implementation sessions in which a new soaker hose and a retractable hose system will be installed.
Sensory Garden: The sensory courtyard will provide 3rd and 4th grade Green Team students space to demonstrate and engage other students in both caring for the plants and how to experience the plants through touch, smell, and sight.
Champion: Callie Hoppes
Longfellow Middle School
Greenhouse & Water Retention: This grant will be used to buy a portable greenhouse and rain barrels for the school gardens. Currently Longfellow has 12 garden beds with drip irrigation systems installed. With the greenhouse, The Garden Club will be able to monitor and seedling growth seeds and improve harvest.
Garden Club: Longfellow students want to create a garden club for all interested students to participate in regular gardening and harvesting and offer opportunities to learn about careers in agriculture.
Champion: Gillian Fletcher
Matchbook Learning
(new itsc cohort)
Urban Farm: Matchbook's Urban Farm offers a real world, hands-on project for students to use the engineering design process to beautify the front of the school, grow food, and create habitat for pollinators and birds. Students will get to take home fresh vegetables and recipes with ingredients to encourage students to eat healthy and enjoy fresh produce.
Champion: Janet Springer
Phalen Leadership Academy @ IPS 103
Learning Garden: Once was a safe havens and thriving area for many of our scholars and staff, the PLA Learning Garden was damaged when schools were closed for CoVID. The Green Team would like to restore the Learning Garden by building a safe place inside the building to store tools and hoses. They also plan to study the importance of gardening on both our mental and physical wellbeing.
Recycling: The Green Team will complete and lead the campaign for paper recycling at PLA@013. They will have recycling stations placed in our lunchroom, teacher workroom, and in each classroom if possible as well as a recycling dumpster onsite.
Champion: LaTiesha Hollowell
Purdue Polytechnic High North
Gewachshaus Greenhouse: One of our students, Elijah, approached our agriculture teacher, Coach Dustin Homan, with the idea for the greenhouse. Elijah is interested in agriculture, likes building things, wants to encourage underclassmen, and wants to leave a legacy after he graduates. The greenhouse will be Elijah’s second project that he has initiated–the first being our school's German Club, hence the name Gewächshaus (Glass/greenhouse in German).
Recycling: Our number one goal is to reduce our ecological footprint by limiting the amount of waste that goes to the landfill. Coach Meyer’s Environmental Sustainability class will spearhead this project.
Champions: Nolan Duffey, Dustin Homan, Moureen Meyer
Shortridge High School
Pollinator Garden: The goal of the project is to remove the weedy species currently growing around the Learning Garden sign, improve the soil, and establish native pollinator plants. Native landscaping increases sustainability and attracts pollinators and beneficial insects to increase food yield in the garden beds.
Champion: Melissa Hutchinson
Victory College Prep
Veggies- An Anchor to Healthy Bodies: Using the grow tower as the centerpiece, Green Team members will share with multiple classes the benefits of growing and eating fresh produce. These lessons will include taste tests, nutritional information, growth observation, data tracking, and peer-to-peer learning.
Champion: Tim Grazian
William McKinley #39
Garden Hydration: The William McKinley learning garden needs hoses to continue to provide water to allow their vegetables to grow and flourish! These hoses will be used for daily watering and will greatly improve the Learning Garden and it's purpose at the school. The Learning Garden is a huge part of their sustainable food resources they are implementing.
Champions: Julie Busch, Julie Herdman, Deana Perry