Hydroponic Gardening Grant

The DeSoto County Education Foundation received a $1000 contribution from the Citigroup Foundation recently. DCEF obtained the annual grant because it allows two teams of teachers to collaborate on a creative classroom-based student-learning project during the school year. The project joins a new teacher (defined as someone with less than five years experience) and a veteran teacher (one with five or more years of experience) and is a mentorship-based experience.

West science teacher Gretchen Turner said, 'We used the grant money to purchase a hydroponic gardening system. We are setting up a time for Mr. Brown, who works at Bethel Farms, to give a presentation to the students on the Vertigro system as well as agricultural methods. Then the students will be measuring, planting, planning and journaling about the experience."