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Students Keep Active at Home by
Advocating for the Environment!
Dear Grades of Green Family,
We hope you're healthy and staying safe! We're writing to update you on the status of our programs and share some fun ways to keep the young people in your life busy at home by advocating for our environment.
In difficult times like these, it's so important to keep focused on the things that are important to us - our families, our community and our environment. Because, as one of our student Eco-Leaders told us last week...
"The world is still going on even with this shelter in place put into our lives. I think we still need to keep going with our efforts for the environment just because once this is over, the environment is still here and we still need to take care of it. We still need to look after it." - Kweeny J.
Our spirits are always lifted by the passion of our amazing students and we hope yours will be too!
Kim Siehl,
Executive Director
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2020 Waste Campaign Updates
With the coronavirus closing schools and canceling events, our student teams have proven just how dedicated they are by continuing to work on their Campaign projects. Our Program Advisors are in close contact with their student teams and are helping them navigate the inevitable impact this situation has made on their projects. We have extended the deadline for the 2020 Waste Campaign to May 15.
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Opportunities for Your Kids to Get Involved Right Now
Join the Green Pitch Challenge
Grades of Green, with the support of Sony Pictures’ A Greener World, is challenging 1st- to 12th-grade students across Los Angeles to pitch their innovative solutions to the environmental problems that they’re passionate about! The winning student or team will earn an Eco-Grant of $1,000 and the two (2) runners-up will earn $500! All three winning students or teams will also receive an incredible award from Sony Pictures. Pitches due Earth Day, April 22nd.
Take on the #LAKingsGreen Challenge and Win Tickets to a LA Kings Game!
We've teamed up with the LA Kings Care Foundation to challenge you to keep active, think green and have fun with the family while staying at home in response to the coronavirus. It's easy! Work with your child(ren) to find a fun, surprising way to reuse something from home that normally gets thrown in the trash, then share it on social media to the hashtag #LAKingsGreen and tag us and the LA Kings Care Foundation. For more information, post eligibility requirements and rules, please visit gradesofgreen.org/lakingschallenge
Students: Looking for Help Collaborating Remotely?
Trying to figure out how to collaborate with your team?
We put together this useful guide to collaborating with your team virtually.
Need help making your pitch videos when you can't meet with your team?
We also made these step-by-step instructions for producing pitch videos remotely.
Other Fun Ways for Kids to Enjoy
the Environment from Home
- Explore the Captain Planet Foundation's Resources for Learning at Home
- Calculate your family's plastic footprint and learn to reduce it with rePurpose
- Have a group of incredible 5th graders teach you all about microplastics in their documentary, "Microplastic Madness"
- Take a virtual tour of Yellowstone Park
- Have fun with National Geographic Kids' content
- Get food-focused with FoodCorps' great resources
- Tune into these great webcams:
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Verte 2020 - Bridging the Gap
We continue to work with our honorees, venue and vendors on setting a new date for Verte 2020 and can promise that this will be the best Verte ever! That said, Verte is responsible for raising 1/3 of Grades of Green's annual budget, so if you are able, please consider donating today to help us bridge the funding gap until Verte is held in the fall.
Stay Updated @gradesofgreen
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Grades of Green
1730 E Holly Ave
El Segundo, CA 90245
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