The first day of EcoRaiders was a flurry of chaos but a total success. We had a group of 32 kids eager to get started who worked non-stop in order to turn two desert-like areas alongside the wall of the school, into two beautiful wildlife habitats. The project was completely student ran. They were told what the goal was and students picked their projects and ran with it. Our objective was to provide an area with water, shelter and food for wildlife such as birds, toads and insects. We got native wildflowers from the ASU Biology Greenhouse to attract pollinators; rocks, bark, flower pots and such for shelter; and birdbaths and bee fountains to provide water. We even made a bat house in the hopes to provide a place for bats to roost and raise their young too. As soon as we finished, there were already butterflies around checking out their new hang out! Thank you to our amazing parent helpers: Sabena Maiden, Carla Parker and Angela McMann, and our ASU interns Ginny and Jenny, and to everyone who donated money for club materials so far! We have $130 that will be put into future projects. A great start to EcoRaiders 2016-2017. Check out the pictures from Day 1 below:
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Janet Montgomery
9/15/2016 01:31:37 pm
Well done! I wonder if you could change the font to something darker or a bit larger for us old readers...
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Marta
9/21/2016 02:35:19 pm
Hi Janet, this template is pretty limited in terms of the font size that works with it, but I'll send you the update via email in a bigger font :)
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