Captain Planet Foundation Awards Education Grant to Hightower Elementary School Doraville, Georgia, January 21, 2014- The Captain Planet Foundation, an international environmental education foundation for youth based on the successful Captain Planet cartoon, is proud to announce that Hightower Elementary School has recently been awarded an educational grant of $492.49. Hightower Elementary School will use these funds toward Nature Explorers. “We are thrilled to present this award to Hightower Elementary School,” says Leesa Carter, Executive Director of the Foundation. “We receive hundreds of submissions each year and have to be very selective to whom we award funding. This is one of the few projects from across the country that we chose to fund. We wish the Hightower Nature Explorers the great success as they work to implement this important project. It is our hope that our combined efforts will educate, empower, involve and invest today’s youth to cultivate a better tomorrow.” Hightower Elementary School Nature Explorers is an after school program for third grade students interested in exploring all the possibilities nature has to bring. The Nature Explorers will be working in the school gardens and learning about the local ecosystem. The Nature Explorers meet twice a month and work on projects related to the garden and nature. Hightower Elementary School is a designated STEM school and was awarded STEM School of the Year 2013-2014 About The Captain Planet Foundation Founded in 1991, CPF was created to support hands-on, environmental projects for youth. CPFs objective is to encourage innovative projects that empower todays children to become environmental stewards. For more information, visit captainplanetfdn.org. The Captain Planet Foundation (CPF) is located at 133 Luckie Street NW in Atlanta, Georgia. It can be reached by phone at (404) 522-4270.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 21:29:37 +0000
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