STEM Students Collaborate to Address Food Insecurity

Educators at Linden-McKinley STEM Academy were trained to integrate community partners into their curriculum.  These 12th graders were challenged by a local urban garden to help increase the numbers of families in the neighborhood receiving produce from the farm.  After uncovering research about food insecurity in their community and the life expectancy of people who live in food deserts, student become so motivated to create solutions that they stayed after school. Watch how they developed collaboration and creative problem solving skills as a result of this real world project.

“Your expectation of your students is the driving force of what they do. With this project we have a big thing to solve. Sorry, this person is kept up at night with this problem – we should be too.”

– Bryce Wood, Teacher at Linden McKinley STEM Academy