17 Baltimore County Schools Receive $22,000 In Grants In Environmental Competition

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TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — An biology cleanup inaugural awarded $22,000 successful grants to 17 Baltimore County Public Schools Tuesday. The schools staged aggregate cleanups connected their grounds and successful their neighborhoods.

Clean Green 15 is an yearly contention and concern betwixt the Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability,Â BCPS, and The Education Foundation ofÂ BCPS. Groups from each schoolhouse log cleanups successful their communities, and the schools with the astir cleanups person grants.

â€œClean Green 15 is simply a fantastic accidental for Baltimore County students and their schools not lone to assistance beautify their grounds and neighborhoods but besides to larn the lessons of keeping the situation healthy,â€ said BCPS Superintendent Dr. Darryl Williams. â€œCongratulationsÂ to our 17 winning schools for doing specified a large occupation successful keepingÂ BCPSÂ clean and greenish and besides to each of those who participated successful this important task some this twelvemonth and last.â€

The grants volition wage for instructional projects that stress the taxable of biology literacy, oregon supplies for STEM learning. The grants ranged from $3,000 for the schoolhouse with the astir logged cleanups to $500 for honorable mentions.

BCPS said 406 litter clean-ups were logged from May 2019 done April 2021, resulting successful 3,391 bags of trash and a full of 57,862 pounds of litter and debris cleaned from Baltimore Countyâ€™s schoolhouse grounds, fields, forests, and communities.

Winning Schools â€“ Combined School Years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021:

Award	Prize	School
Grand Prize	$3,000 grant	Charlesmont Elementary School
High Schools 1^stÂ Prize	$2,000 grant	Patapsco High School & Center for the Arts
High Schools 2^ndÂ Prize	$1,500 grant	Dulaney High School
High Schools 3^rdÂ Prize	$1,000 grant	Franklin High School
Middle Schools 1^stÂ Prize	$2,000 grant	General John Stricker Middle School
Middle Schools 2^ndÂ Prize	$1,500 grant	Ridgely Middle School
Middle Schools 3^rdÂ Prize	$1,000 grant	Sparrows Point Middle School
Elementary Schools 1^stÂ Prize	$2,000 grant	Grange Elementary School
Elementary Schools 2^ndÂ Prize	$1,500 grant	Glyndon Elementary School
Elementary Schools 3^rdÂ Prize	$1,000 grant	Chesapeake Terrace Elementary School
Special School Prize	$2,000 grant	Battle Monument School
Honorable Mention	$500 STEM prize	Sparks Elementary School
Honorable Mention	$500 STEMÂ prize	George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology
Honorable Mention	$500 STEMÂ prize	Lansdowne Middle School
Honorable Mention	$500 STEMÂ prize	Rosedale Center Middle/High School
Honorable Mention	$500 STEMÂ prize	Deer Park Middle School
Honorable Mention	$500 STEMÂ prize	Sparrows Point Technical High School