Carrie Settles Livers, a teacher at Brookwood High School, has been awarded a $35,000 grant from the 3M Corporation through its 3Mgives program to fund her project that encourages environmental stewardship, connects STEM education and nature with outdoor learning opportunities and engages students and young people with an emphasis on underserved communities.
Livers will use the grant money to build an aquaponics lab to help educate students on sustainable agriculture while providing them an opportunity for community outreach by distributing the food grown to the local food co-ops. “I am probably most excited about the humanitarian component to this adventure,” said Livers. “I think one of the best ways to ‘trick’ students into learning, is to help them find something to be passionate about.
Helping to design this lab, trouble-shooting in the lab, and designing extensions of this lab that could possibly work in developing countries, is a great way to flex those critical thinking muscles.”
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