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Sunset BBQ and Lawn Party
Our Sunset BBQ and Lawn Party on Tuesday night turned out to be a truly magical and inspiring evening with 160 people coming together for an urban farm-to-table dinner in support of NY Sun Works and the public schools, teachers and students we serve.
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Discovering Sustainability Science: Youth Conference
On May 21st at Symphony Space NY Sun Works hosted 54 students from 14 NYC public schools who presented their research on Sustainability Science to a sold-out auditorium of 750 kids and teachers during the the 7th annual NY SUN WORKS Youth Conference. The Conference will also be streamed live, and video presentations will be available on our website this summer.
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Youth Climate Summit at Columbia University
We were so excited to participate at Columbia University’s 2018 Youth Climate Summit
The yearly Youth Climate Summit is an opportunity for high school students to interface with fellow students and speakers/environmental organizations in a workshop setting focusing on actionable ways to engage in the climate movement.
The NYSW presentation was titled: We Are What You Eat: A conversation about how our food choices & food waste impact the climate.
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PIX11: NJ Middle School Sets Up Urban Food Production Center with Indoor, Outdoor Gardens
Students, parents, faculty and community members of Emerson Middle School pitched in to get their urban gardens ready for the season, in honor of Earth Day. The school is celebrating the fourth year of their indoor hydroponics lab where more than 500 pounds of produce are grown every year for students to enjoy.
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Bregal Sagemount Gives Back: a greenhouse classroom built in a day!
We had a super fun and inspiring day at PS14 in Queens where a motivated team from Bregal Sagemount brought their families out to build an entire classroom lab on a Saturday.
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ManhattanTimes: A Verdant Venue at PS 28 in Manhattan in Their New Hydroponic Classroom
Sarai had never tried mint before. But the fifth grade student recently had the chance to sample the herb directly from her own garden. Specifically, her class’ hydroponic garden. Sarai, together with other Northern Manhattan school children at P.S. 28 – Wright Brothers School on 155th Street, are growing greens and vegetables in their own classroom.
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Bklyner: Growing STEM Futures, PS 34 Celebrates Their Hydroponic Classroom
After muddling through with limited resources for nearly 3 years, students and teachers alike celebrated the opening of a new Green STEM Lab at P.S. 34 in Greenpoint this morning. Excited elementary students gave tours through the bright green vines of peas, tomatoes and cucumbers, which climbed from hydroponic Dutch bucket systems, soundtracked by the trickle of recycling water running down through tower gardens and across nutrient trays, feeding leafy basil, rainbow chard and kohlrabi.
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QNS.com: Astoria Students Will Grow Vegetables and Learn About Sustainability with Hydroponic Science Labs
Students at Astoria‘s P.S. 122 will grow their own vegetables in class with the help of two hydroponic science labs that will also serve to teach students about agriculture, biology, technology and sustainability. Councilman Costa Constantinides allocated $160,000 through discretionary funding to help build the labs in an elementary and middle school class at P.S. 122. In a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Dec. 8, the classroom labs, constructed by New York Sun Works, were unveiled.
