Congratulations to Our Winning Teams! We are thrilled to award Eco-Grants to nine winning teams to expand the impact of their Climate Solutions Campaign projects and recognize additional outstanding accomplishments through six honorary awards. Get to know our teams by learning more about their projects below! |
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Grand Prize Winner - $1,000 Matungu Community Development Charity
Nairobi, Kenya |
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| Our Grand Prize-winning team is a group of four motivated girls who organized a community-wide tree planting event where they planted more than 3,500 tree saplings to promote indigenous foliage as a means of environmental conservation and carbon emission reduction. |
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Most Inspirational Team Award - $500 Redondo Union High School
Redondo Beach, California |
Community Changemaker Award - $500 Helen Keller Middle School
Long Beach, California |
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| | The Redondo Reducers Club, led by
Rylee, hosted a Plastic Pollution Solutions
Panel featuring state and local leaders that
dove deep into the most pressing issues
around plastic pollution. |
| | | Grades of Greens students from Helen Keller Middle School teamed up with fellow Long Beach students to advocate for the commitment of Long Beach Unified School District to transition to 100% renewable energy by 2030. |
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Rookie Team of the
Year Award - $500 Weston High School
Weston, Massachusetts |
Most Collaborative Teams Award - $500 Adams & Farmington
High Schools
Rochester Hills & Farmington, Michigan |
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| | | The team from Weston High School, led by Max, collected more than 500 pounds of plastic bags from his community to repurpose into a public bench. |
| | | Students from Adams and Farmington Hills High Schools collaborated on a project to get their schools to ban styrofoam lunch trays and replace them with sustainable alternatives. |
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Green Influencers Award - $500 Mira Costa High School
Manhattan Beach, California |
Best Elementary Impact Award - $500 Mary Bragg Elementary School
Cerritos, California |
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| | | The "For the Greener Good" Team from Mira Costa High School partnered with local businesses to encourage planet-friendly diets through a Meatless Monday social media campaign. |
| | | The Mary Bragg Green Team tackled the topic of trees this year by creating an advocacy website, conducting community tree plantings and joining a letter-writing campaign to protect old-growth rainforests. |
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Community Advocates
Award - $500 Whitney High School
Cerritos, California |
International Changemaker
Award - $250 To Environment, With Love
Kolkata, India |
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| | | The dedicated Ecology and Wildlife Club at Whitney High School hosted a community tree sale to offset their school's paper usage and surpassed their goal by distributing more than 120 trees. |
| | | These intrepid girls raised awareness on the issue of waste by collecting and recycling trash and other materials from their local communities, while educating the public about the impacts of trash and single-use plastics. |
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Most Dynamic Team Award - $250 Kishoka Youth Organization
Mombasa, Kenya |
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| | | The students from the Kishoka Youth Organization hosted a bike ride event in their community where they planted 100 mangrove seedlings, in addition to conducting litter pick-ups, presenting at seminars and educating younger students on the importance of mangroves. |
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| In addition to our Eco-Grants, we're excited to announce our honorary awards that recognize the following outstanding student teams and adult team facilitators. |
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Best Team Name
Jeez, We Like Trees from Nathaniel Hawthorne
Middle School
Queens, New York
Most Enthusiastic Team
Mission Unsoakable from
Rogers Middle School Long Beach, California
Best Middle or High School
Team Facilitator
Jean Posada from Nathaniel Hawthorne Middle School
Queens, New York |
Best Student Innovator
Adriel Mar from Culver City
Middle School
Culver City, California
Best Alumni Team
HEAR Club from the California Academy of Math & Science
Carson, California
Best Elementary School
Team Facilitator
Roberto Escala from Goethe International Charter School
Los Angeles, California |
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Thank You to Our Sponsors!
A big thank you to the following sponsors for their continued support of our students. Because of them, we can continue to offer our programs for free to our students, schools and districts. |
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The City of Manhattan Beach
The City of Santa Monica
Clif Bar Family Foundation
Gelson’s Markets
Grand View PTA
Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation
Kings Care Foundation
LAcarGUY |
LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn
LA Sanitation & Environment
Newman’s Own Foundation
Northrop Grumman
Sanitation Districts of LA County
Subaru Pacific
Waste Management |
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| Missed the announcement event? Check out the recording of our LIVE Eco-Grant Award Ceremony. |
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Help us Continue to Provide Eco-Grants |
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Every year, we provide Eco-Grants to our top-performing students to help expand the reach of their environmental efforts. These funds not only multiply our students' impact exponentially but also serve as a powerful incentive and teach students that their hard work is worthy of recognition and support.
Help us continue to award Eco-Grants to our students by donating to Grades of Green Today! |
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