News
Expanded Leadership Team
Spring 2023
2022-23 School Year Success!
Spring 2023
This school year, we QUINTUPLED our impact! In addition to expanding the team to include eleven students from two different high schools, we have now reached 1,200 students and grown 19,000 Super Plant seeds! In total, we have presented in 17 schools and 35 classrooms. We are excited to see what next year holds!
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This Spring, Project Super Plants expanded our leadership team to include a new branch at Nueva. Our cross-school team now consists of eleven high schoolers working together to run classroom sessions and will allow us to have an even larger reach throughout the Bay Area.
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Expanded Leadership Team
Spring 2023
North Bay Science Discovery Day
Spring 2023
Project Super Plants ran a booth at the North Bay Science Discovery Day in Santa Rosa! An incredibly exciting and inspiring day!
We engaged 1000 visitors and planted car Super Plants with 350 kids, growing 3000+ native California Melicgrass seeds.
Families learned about the science behind Super Plants and planted their own in compostable pots to transplant into home gardens.
New Leadership Team
Fall 2022
Project Super Plants recruited a new leadership team this fall! Seven middle and high schoolers from across the Bay Area are working together to spread our project. We have now reached over 430 students and planted 9160 Super Plant seeds!
Project Super Plants is on Instagram!
Fall 2022
Project Super Plants created an Instagram account! Follow us @projectsuperplants for updates, classroom session photos, and plant facts!
Flora Magazine Feature
Winter 2021
Flora, a magazine published by the California Native Plants Society, featured our project in its Winter 2021 edition.
Read the article here!
San Francisco Examiner Article
Fall 2020
Our team was interviewed by SF Examiner reporter, Robyn Purchia, who focuses on local Bay Area climate change stories. The interview was published in the newspaper here!
Jennifer Siebel Newsom,
First Partner of California, congratulated Project Super Plant's efforts in this Facebook post.
Facebook Post
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Fall 2020
OurEcho Challenge Winners 2020
Second Place
Summer 2020
The OurEcho Challenge through EarthEcho is a competition where middle schoolers across the US propose innovative solutions to protect their local biodiversity. After creating a proposal for Project Super Plants and presenting to a panel of judges and 450 people from 41 countries, we were awarded second place and a $5000 grant to implement our project!
