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Even with school funding being cut drastically, Jennifer Jayne’s 7th grade science class at Gateway Pointe Elementary School is learning hands-on about sustainability due to a grant from Intel Corporation. Jayne and her husband Kevin, an engineer at Intel, co-authored a grant request that Intel was offering to help promote sustainability in the community.

The grant, titled “It’s Super Easy Being Green,” focuses on two elective classes being taught this school year for the first time. The first class, written with Nancy Foote, is about recycling and teaches students how to save the earth and what students can do on their part. The second class is on raised-bed gardening, where students learn about plants and where food comes from. The students will plant a garden and maintain it for the remainder of the school year.

Money received from Intel was used to purchase materials for six planting beds, in-class technology for research, and a grow house. The planting beds were constructed by two Intel volunteers and Jennifer Jayne, and have already been planted with carrots, radishes, lettuce, spinach, and green beans.