Meeting Molly!

How super fun!!  Molly Peterson, the Environment Correspondent at KPCC public radio, was at Water Day and interviewed Alverno students about their Save An Ugly! Endangered Species twitter campaigns (AP Environmental Science assignment). 

She tweeted about them and followed and retweeted more!

World Water Day Success!!

Water Day was a huge success!  Alverno Students did an amazing job preparing and presenting the 5 water projects in the school competition.  Alverno Science Club and AP Environmental Science students won the Grand Prize and 4 additional prizes!

Video of Water Day projects
Water Bloopers
APES bloopers

Water Project Presentation Powerpoint

SUCCESS!!

  

Grand Prize ($300): “Aquaponics System” Excellence in their presentation of “Blue Sky Thinking” and innovative use of technology 

Prize ($200): “Storm Water Diversion Project” Best Infrastructure Adaptation for Conservation

Prize ($200): “Native Plants”  and “Water Barrels” Best Environmental Conservation Strategy

Prize: ($200): “Pond Aquatic Ecosystem” Best Use of Nature

Alverno Water Projects

Aquaponics Project Presentation

Pond Aquatic Ecosystem Presentation

Storm Water Diversion and Rain Barrels Presentation

Native Plant Gardens Presentation

Setting up portable aquaponics system 

Judges talk to students about aquaponics 

Congresswoman Judy Chu also stopped by the Alverno booth to congratulate the students on their amazing work.

Alverno Booth
(including lemons and grapefruit picked on campus)

Picking grapefruit and lemons for Water Day

Picking grapefruit and lemons for Water Day

Our friends from Compassionate Rescue were in the booth next to ours, and Alverno students demonstrated the LifeStraw Family 1.0

Compassionate Rescue Booth

How LifeStraw works

LifeStraw Family 1.0

Water Day Pledge

Water Day 2015 Memorial Park

Papilo rutulus

This gorgeous Western Swallowtail dropped by to check us out today!

Papilo rutulus

As the window closed....

APES 2015 planted the native plants around the pond today (before the planting season ended)!

The native plants included were:

The Trees Thank Science Club...

Thanks to the hard work of the Alverno Science Club the trees got some much-needed water from the  rain that was diverted from going into the storm drain and toward the trees!

Digging in!

The big aquaponics systems are in place and assembled!  Prof Cat's aquaponics students helped AP Environmental Science students assemble the systems and Alverno students dug a shallow hole to place the fish tanks to align them with the bed tables.

Bogged Up!

We are cultivating bog plants in our small aquaponics system outside the science classrooms.  The bog plants love it!  Most of them will eventually be transferred to the Villa Pond.