2024/2025 Indiana Thriving Schools Challenge Funding Recipients

 
 

Avondale Meadows Middle school

Meadows Green Team: build and sustain raised bed gardens as part of its commitment to hands-on learning and environmental stewardship.


Clinton young elementary school

Learning Garden: create a more finished looking Learning Garden with a nice walking path around the garden beds that are beautiful with perennials.


H.l. harshman middle school

Eco-friendly Spirit Week:  each advisory group competes in daily challenges to reduce energy and waste.

Courtyard Garden: transforming an unused part of the school courtyard into a garden with berry bushes.

Earth Day Clean Up Event:  grounds beautification efforts will take place (mulch, planting native flowers and planting pollinating flowers/ plants). 


Indiana Math & science Academy West

Garden Expansion: expand garden beds to allow for additional fruits and vegetables. Also, continue expanding the usefulness of the property to include a butterfly garden and Monarch Waystation as well as an additional outdoor classroom for studying & enjoying the outdoor space around the vegetable garden plots.


KIPP indy public schools

Garden- High School: growing a garden at Legacy High School by tilling soil, planting crops, and maintaining the garden throughout the school year.

KICP Garden Expansion: 1.) revitalizing the current indoor garden infrastructure at the K-8 building by adding new projects for water restoration, food production, and pollination protection; and 2.) bringing greater awareness to farming techniques outside of traditional grow methods to teach students about sustainable urban farming.

K-8 Outdoor Garden Expansion: Students will prioritize adding more flower beds around the exterior of our K-8 building.


lakeside elementary

Let’s Get Composting: will weigh food scraps to record data and keep track of the volume of compost collected, and to show savings in the disposal of solid waste from the cafeteria. Additionally, we will add vermicompost and educate the students and parents on composting with worms.


northridge high school

Recycling: students will inform Northridge High School of the new recycling program and will be responsible for going to each classroom to collect recyclable materials.

Butterfly Garden: assemble/build butterfly gardens to be placed around the exterior of Northridge High School.


phalen leadership academy 103

Green Team Engagement: Community Clean-up 2025 is a collaborative initiative aimed at revitalizing local parks, school grounds, and other shared community spaces through a hands-on clean-up event.


Purdue Polytechnic High School-Schweitzer Center at Englewood

Composting: students will collect organic waste from the cafeteria, classrooms, and the PPHS Englewood urban farm, sorting items like fruit peels, vegetable scraps, and coffee grounds from non-compostable materials.


ROOTed school

Garden Development: aims to create a vibrant, educational garden that features native plants, vegetables, and pollinator-friendly flowers.

Curriculum Support: aims to develop a comprehensive, cross-curricular program that introduces students to key concepts of sustainability through subjects such as science, math, and art.


school for community learning

Gardening Expansion: Gardens will include native, pollinator-attracting plants and food. Beds will be designed with accessibility in mind for students and adults that have difficulty bending over or kneeling.

Recycling: students will design and build a shelving system in our central hallway that will house all of our school-wide reusing and recycling initiatives.


victory college prep

Composting: fill all the sites with enough compostable materials so that will have more compost to spread out to plants in the spring.

Sensory Path Remake: Students will learn best practices on trimming fruit trees and shrubs providing greater access to the pathway.

Garden Expansion: three stage project will be used to demonstrate how students can grow vegetables indoors, try out new healthy foods they may not have tried before, and bring the school community together around healthy eating habits families can grow themselves.


vision academy at riverside

Garden Expansion: gardens will serve as outdoor classrooms where students can engage in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning through the practical experience of growing plants.