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Students' Registered Environmental Projects

	School: Laurel School Students: Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd Graders	Classroom Worm Composting Paid for with Recycleables Synopsis: This project sets up worm composting bins in classrooms to support the Zero Waste Lunch program that is already underway at Laurel. This project also helps to raise awareness of the importance of and value in recycling by enabling the students to earn the money they need to purchase their classroom worm bins by letting them redeem their own recycleable materials.

	School: Hausner School Students: 3rd Graders	Recycling & Bottle Redemption to Fund School's GHREEN Program Synopsis: This project aims to educate and encourage the students to properly recycle of all their empty plastic bottles and cans used at school and to provide for the collection of CVA items and their redemption by the students to fund their school's environmental club.

	School: Encinal School Students: 3rd, 4th and 5th Graders	Annual Encinal Plant Sale Synopsis: This citizenship gardening club starts growing plants from seeds or cuttings to sell for the purpose of raising money for the things they need for the gardens at school. This gives the students experience growing plants and provides organic vegetables and flowers for local gardens.

	School: Encinal School Students: 5th Graders	KinderStart I - Tools Synopsis: This project will expand Encinal's existing garden program for 3rd, 4th and 5th graders to include the necessary tools, equipment and planting beds for the new grades of Kindergarten through 2nd that will be added to Encinal, starting next year.

	School: Encinal School Students: 3rd & 4th Graders	KinderStart II - Curriculum Synopsis: This project will expand Encinal's existing garden program for 3rd, 4th and 5th graders to include programs and lesson plans, especially pertaining to planting native plants, for the new grades of Kindergarten through 2nd that will be added to Encinal, starting next year.

	School: Phillips Brooks School Students: 4th Graders	Phillips Brooks Energy Audit Synopsis: This project involves students looking at the energy consumption used in Phillips Brooks School classrooms and figuring out ways to lower the usage.

	School: Selby Lane Students: 1st through 5th Graders	Selby School Arbor Day/Earth Day Synopsis: This project enables students at Selby Lane School to be involved with planting new trees on the school grounds. In conjunction with the Atherton Tree Committee, the students will learn how to properly plant the tree, how to add mulch to landscaped areas to help retain water, how to prune trees and then they will help to clean up the campus. This will be the third annual Arbor Day project conducted at Selby Lane School.

	School: Independent Students: 5th Graders	Energy-Saving Co-operation Agreement Synopsis: This project gets kids to help their parents save energy at home by giving them an incentive. We will provide other kids who are interested with a form of agreement to use with their parents to collaborate at home on saving energy and sharing the savings with their parents. In addition, students get a list of things that they can do with their parents to dramatically reduce energy usage at home. We will do the research and create this package and try to get other kids to be interested in doing this with their parents at home.

	School: Hausner School Students: 5th Graders	School Lunch Excess Donated to Shelters Synopsis: This project involves students providing a special collection bin, near the lunch area garbage and recycling bins, for any uneaten and unopened food at lunch, so that good food is not thrown out by students (which is currently the case). The students will also set up a sign-up sheet and get parents to sign up for one day a month to bring the collected foods to local shelters which the students research and arrange for drop-offs.

	School: Menlo-Atherton High School Students: 10th Grade	Menlo-Atherton Recycling Center Synopsis: This project involves creating a new recycling center on the school campus, at a central location, to facilitate the handling of campus (and potentially community) recycling and waste. The objective for creating this center would be to help promote environmental awareness and increase recycling rates, as well as make it easier to manage waste. A central location would bring efficiency to bin sorting and maximize the students' ability to bring value to the school for its recycling efforts.

	School: Menlo-Atherton High School Students: 10th and 11th Grade	Menlo-Atherton: Run by the Sun Synopsis: This public highschool with over 2000 students uses over $20,000 in energy per month. Most students are not aware of this, nor have they thought about ways to reduce their collective impact on the environment. This project involves raising awareness of these facts and developing a proposal to bring clean energy, in the form of solar power, to the school.

	School: Sacred Heart Preparatory School Students: 11th Grade	Going Green in Atherton Synopsis: This project involves students organizing and carrying out a fun and educational environmental event, with information booths created by students to explain various environmental issues to the public. Free food and music will attract students and the booths, manned by fellow students, will begin to raise awareness among students, staff and parents. (This event is scheduled for Tuesday, May 13th, so please join us!)

	School: Menlo-Atherton High School Students: 10th, 11th and 12th Grade	Menlo-Atherton Schoolwide Waste System Synopsis: This program seeks to improve the school's performance in recycling and overall garbage reduction by placing garbage, recycling and compost bins around the school and providing education to the students and staff about the importance of minimizing waste. They will help to educate the community about waste reduction and recycling, including understanding the importance of composting yard waste as well as food waste properly (which reduces methane production) and they will re-design the placement of collection bins around the campus to maximize performance and awareness.