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With funding from the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund, Hastings teens accomplished an impressive range of projects related to sustainability in 2024.
Thanks to funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies' Youth Climate Action Fund, HHS students Ella and Maya Tadmor have created a new look for a better-functioning TILI. Learn more.
Hajeong Lee and Ella Cajigao (with mentor Megan Roe) have used their grant from the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund to create a microbusiness that focuses on making gorgeous jewelry out of plastic bottle tops. Bottle tops are notoriously difficult to recycle. Learn more.
HHS student Lena Hobby used a grant from the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund to expand native habitat by distributing seeds within the community and teaching people how to plant them. The project consisted of researching, purchasing and distributing native wildflower seeds to local residents to plant in their own gardens and yards, and to plant some of the seeds in some of the large habitat restoration areas in the Village. The Eco Seeds project is an attempt to help to reverse the loss of our native habitat. Read more here.
Restoring the HHS Garden Club Garden
Jack Maney, Lola Berlin, Mila Sultan restored the HHS Garden Club's garden, on the east side of the school building. The garden was started years ago by previous club members, but had fallen into disrepair. Following a reinfusion of equipment and awareness thanks to the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund, the Garden Club had a record turnout of new volunteers. Check out more photos and their how-to description.
Pollinator Garden at Hillside Elementary School
HHS student Cassie Probst-Huertas installed a butterfly garden at Hillside Elementary School, made possible by a grant from the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund. It is attached to the school's vegetable garden and right next to Hillside Woods, and will help support pollinators to benefit both places. Check out more photos and Cassie's project write-up here.
Pollinator Garden at 5 Corners
HHS students Hanna Lambert, Siri Lambert, Niahm Lynch, Akansha Muthukrishnan and Emma Boudrias installed a pollinator garden at Five Corners, complementing HPP's 5 Corners garden across the intersection and Hastings' Beautification Committee's Foodtown garden across the street. Hanna & friends' garden was made possible by a grant from the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund. Check out more photos and their how-to description!
Pollinator Support at Zinsser Community Gardens
HHS students Marcus Gelman and Will Andrus installed a raised-bed wildflower garden in Zinsser Park. With fencing, it can support flowers deer would otherwise destroy. Their garden was also made possible by a grant from the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund, and will draw pollinators to Hastings' Community Gardens. More photos and their how-to description.
With funding from the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund, Hastings natives Sasha Fuller Eden Greenberg built a greenhouse at Zinsser Community Gardens, a beloved institution since their inception as Victory Gardens during World War I, to extend the growing season and provide local, organic food throughout the year to Hastings gardeners. See more photos and details here.
With funding from the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund, five juniors at Hastings High School—Jakob Kessman, Colin Sexton, Malcolm Trese, Johnny Sbrega, and Julian Carnavali—installed an irrigation system to locally source and transport water from a nearby creek to the recently constructed greenhouse (above) in Hastings' beautiful Zinsser Community Gardens. For more on this project, click here.
Revitalizing Zinsser Community Gardens
Garden cleanup, design, planting, and community engagement project by Sophia Ballard, with funding from the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund. This project aims to enhance the sustainability, accessibility, and appeal of our local community gardens, a beloved institution since they were created as Victory Gardens during World War I. See more photos and details here.
Educational Garden at Zinsser Park
With funding from the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund, HHS student Chloe Smith installed an educational garden at Zinsser Park that invites both children and adults to learn about plants and affords a reflective space to stimulate one's senses and awareness. It also serves as an ongoing outward-facing educational space for future troops of Girl Scouts and other community members. For more photos and Chloe's detailed write-up click here, and also check out Chloe's custom website.
Sully Griffin and Victoria Lugomer-Pomper used their grant from the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund to host a pollinator festival in Draper Park on September 14th. They created a fun forum for the public to learn about the importance of pollinators, with science experiments, games, face painting, seed giveaways and free ice cream. For photos and more, click here.
In the alley between Hastings Paint & Hardware and VFW park, Hastings resident and artist Emma Gelman produced a tribute to pollinators to raise awareness and beautify the alley. The project thanks to a grant from the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund. For more, click here.
Dog waste and trash are detrimental to Hillside Woods. Using funding from the HoH Youth Climate Action Fund, Hastings High School student Christian Pinero sourced, designed, and organized the installation of three new dog waste stations and five new critter-proof trash receptacles. These have been placed at various entrances to Hillside Woods, and the old ones removed.
For details on this project, click here.
Using funding from the HoH Youth Climate Action Fund, Erik Ghalib sourced, designed, and organized the installation of 3 mini kiosks for 3 entrances to the woods that complement the main kiosk at the entrance @Chemka Pool parking lot.
For more on this project, click here.
Come on down and check out the news signs in the Burke Estate Restoration Project area. Courtesy of HHS student Erik Ghalib, with funding from the Bloomberg Philanthropies' Youth Climate Action Fund. For more on this project, click here.
Come on down and check out the news signs in the Burke Estate Restoration Project area. Courtesy of HHS student Erik Ghalib, with funding from the Bloomberg Philanthropies' Youth Climate Action Fund. For more on this project, click here.
With funding from the Bloomberg Philanthropies' Youth Climate Action Fund, HHS students set up SLF traps in Hillside Woods to study the number and habits of the invasive spotted lanternfly. For more on this project, click here.
With funding from the Bloomberg Philanthropies' Youth Climate Action Fund, HHS students set up SLF traps in Hillside Woods to study the number and habits of the invasive spotted lanternfly. For more on this project, click here.
Thanks to funding and inspiration from the HoH Youth Climate Action Fund 2024 (HoH-YCAF), Kai Ghalib, Joe Drake, Greg Weiss and Kareem Ghalib planted 8 red maples and two swamp white oaks adjacent to the source of Boutillier's Brook, which is @Ravensdale Road on the site of the former Ice Pond. The team selected trees species specifically suited to wet areas, which is expected to help mitigate flooding downstream. Learn more about the Ravensdale Micro Forest project here; for more on Boutillier's Brook Restoration, click here.
With funding from the HoH Youth Climate Action Fund, Hastings High School students Reuben Belasco and Nickola Horozov have created a map of invasive plants in Hastings, using crowdsourced data, and hosted an invasives removal session on October 5th on the Old Croton Aqueduct. For more on their project, click here, where you can find their list of common invasives plus info on the website they built to educate residents about the problems with invasive plants.
Westchester Youth Climate Summit 2024
Westchester Youth Climate Summit 2024
HHS Junior Oona Spaeth created the first ever Westchester Youth Climate Summit on October 26, 2024, with a grant from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Youth Climate Action Fund.
Students participated from over 25 high schools across NYS, with a total of around 100 attendees.
Oona organized the event over the course of five months with help from Mayor Nicola Armacost, Hastings Schools Superintendent Dr. McKersie, Hastings High School Science Department Chair Melissa Shandroff, school facilities staff, the Jane Goodall Roots & Shoots Youth Council USA, and her family.
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