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Midway Manor Youth Program

The Plastic Bag Initiative seeks to reduce carbon footprint and runoff pollution impacts by eliminating the use of plastic bags at Commissaries and other shops across the military bases in

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Kent Family Academy Youth Project

Kent Family Academy

Tiny but mighty, this homeschool family (a 5th, 2nd, and 1st-grader) participated in the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Oyster Gardening Program. They raised 500 oyster spat in their Watery Garden –

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Hodges Manor Youth Project

Hodges Manor Elementary School

To reduce the local impact of single-use plastics, 6th-grade students created a mini-garden from used plastic bottles collected within the watershed. Their mini-garden contains native plant species.

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Christopher Academy Youth Project

Christopher Academy

The Pond Pals from kindergarten and 2nd grade worked together to renovate the school’s pond, replacing the liner and filtration setup and installing a new rain barrel to capture rainwater

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Camp E. W. Young Youth Project

Camp E.W. Young

900 5th-grade students from Norfolk Public Schools planted more than 1,000 native wetland plants to stabilize the soil along a portion of the Southern Branch, reducing erosion from the waves

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Blair Middle School Featured Project

Blair Middle School

8th-graders started a Native Plant Learning Garden containing native plants that excel at absorbing excess rainwater, reducing local flooding during rain events while attracting native insects and birds to improve

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