CEDAR RAPIDS - New trash cans popped up in the cafeteria at Prairie Point Middle School and Ninth Grade Academy earlier this month. The garbage bins have signs on them instructing students to deposit ...

A composting program at The Wesley School in Los Angeles is helping kindergarten through eighth grade students get hands-on experience with making dirt while also teaching them ways to address ...

Parth Gupta did the research, presented his plan and put it into action. Parth is a 9-year-old third grader at Cedar Ridge Elementary School, and his project is now a school-wide composting program.

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