Past projects 2
Solar Power to the Youth!
Funded Apr 16, 2024Mahalo for bringing Solar Power to the Youth! ☀️✊🏽
Your generous support is empowering our students to harness the energy of the sun, learn about alternative energy and environmental stewardship, and apply math and science lessons to our experiential garden classes.
Students use their new solar panel hooked up to a portable generator to run a blender and create 'Solar Smoothies' from fruit they have grown and harvested. They are thrilled to use the same energy that makes our garden grow to create delicious food to share together.
Students are also fascinated by the small solar panel they connected to run the garden trail camera. While its primary function is to enhance the security of our school garden, we have also enjoyed watching videos of our resident duck, chickens, and baby pigs going about their after school lives.
Thanks to our new solar panels, we are also learning important lessons of sustainability and self reliance that are crucial to the health of our students and community, as we create our future world together with the choices we make today.
Thank you for helping us make that future brighter.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Brovsky
This classroom project was brought to life by Johnson Ohana Foundation and 2 other donors.Empower Our Students!
Funded Feb 22, 2024We are so grateful to you for providing us with a power bank, weather station and trail camera in our Kohala Elementary School garden!
Having power in the garden has opened up new areas of learning that include technology such as microscopes. It has also answered a long-standing request from the students to be able to cook in the garden. The students were especially thrilled to be able to make smoothies during class using the fruit, veggies and herbs they have grown. The photos in the slideshow are of our first smoothie using our new EcoFlow River Power Station. Students harvested coconut, bananas, rollinia, soursop, papaya, orange, kale, moringa, fennel and mint, prepared everything themselves, then added edible flowers on top of their creation. It was delicious!
Classes have also been excited to explore the math and science applications of our new Sainlogic Weather Station, which we installed at the top of the garden in front of the classrooms. The tablet with the data read out currently resides in a third grade class to use in their lessons. We also created the first Kohala Elementary School Weather Station on the public weather service Wunderground. Students, faculty and the community can access our weather station to see what the forecast promises. Here is the link if you want to know how the weather is at school! Or enter KHIKAPAA85 on the Wunderground app to find our station.
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KHIKAPAA85
The class who got to install our new Rexing H2 trail Camera was especially excited, they thought it was 'very cool, like Star Wars.' They worked together to problem solve and come up with the best location to install the trail cam, based on coverage and stability of mount. They also inadvertently took some very funny photos of themselves in the process which they enjoyed. The camera will now remain in its perch to help keep our garden secure, taking photos and videos when motion is detected.
Thank you again for enhancing our students' experiential learning in the garden. We are grateful for your support, and our students send you a big Mahalo!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Brovsky
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community and 9 other donors.