Neil Armstrong Elementary’s 4th and 5th grade students are not only gardeners, they are also philanthropists. For the past few weeks, the San Francisco Bay Area students have been watering, fertilizing, and grooming the marigold seeds that they had planted at school. Their dedication has resulted in over 5,000 blooming marigolds! This week, the students will sell their marigolds to a local landscaping business and plant the marigolds at a nearby business park. The students will then use the funds received from the sale of the flowers to fund proposals that they select on the DonorsChoose.org website.
By growing and selling the marigolds in the past year, the Neil Armstrong Elementary students funded over 20 teacher proposals that provided over 2,500 hours of instruction to over 600 students. The Neil Armstrong Elementary students are hoping that this year, their efforts will have an even greater impact. They have created a challenge page at DonorsChoose.org encouraging their community to match the funds that they have raised. In addition, 20/20 ran a story about their project which can be viewed, here.
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