A STEM-focused curriculum fosters student-led green innovation at McKinley Tech, a public high school in Washington, D.C., that last year won a coveted designation as a U.S. Department of Education “Blue Ribbon School."

Thanks to students and a PLT GreenWorks! grant, in just one year St. Michael School in California reduced its garbage bill by $1,200 and is diverting 40% of its waste from the landfill to composting and recycling centers.

Florida was one of five states where PLT GreenSchools! was piloted in 2010. Students tested and refined the GreenSchools! Investigations that are now part of what it takes to become a certified PLT GreenSchool. Their accomplishments will be shared at the end of February at the National Green Schools Conference that takes place in West Palm Beach.

Despite the fact that their school is located in a heavily polluted city, students at Baltimore’s Ben Franklin High School are using their involvement with PLT GreenSchools! and their proximity to Baltimore Harbor to tackle one environmental challenge after another, determined to make a difference in greening their school and community.

PLT's GreenWorks! grant program has been supporting service-learning projects in schools and communities for the past 20 years.

QR technology and collaboration between older and younger students got kids outside and excited to learn about nature in this PLT GreenWorks! project in Maine.