US (TX): San Antonio elementary school gets surprise greenhouse grant
Unbeknownst to Treviño, the principal remembered her when he applied for a $2,500 grant from Community First Health Plans.
Treviño led a second-grade class away from the basketball courts Friday morning for “a presentation” from the health care group run by University Health System. It turned out to be a check presentation. Treviño had won the grant.
Greenhouse
An hour after Treviño’s surprise, Willy Sanchez, an art teacher for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Academy at Nimitz Middle School, brought a seventh-grade class into the library because he’d been told construction workers needed to see his classroom.
Sanchez and the students were faced with video cameras as they filed in. “Oh!” Sanchez said when surprised with the check.
Sanchez teaches art with a digital graphic design component. Last year, all his students, in sixth through eighth grades, used their skills to design a greenhouse that grew summer squash, cucumbers and tomatoes.
Using the grant, Sanchez will replicate the project this year with a bigger greenhouse that will operate year-round and grow more types of produce. His students will design fixes for some of last year’s problems, such as a water filtration system and a ventilation system so the mint leaves don’t get overheated.
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