Biotech Signature Program:
Water and Environmental Quality
Foothills Elementary School is a Water Champion school for Project Wet, a coalition of UA, ASU and ASU Polytechnic Institute. Project Wet promotes responsible water stewardship through water education. Several fifth-grade Foothills students partnered on a trip to Cherry Creek in Young, AZ along with some Paradise Valley High School students and teachers to observe the water management programs taking place in that area, as well as a taking part in a collaborative study of macroinvertebrates.
Foothills biotech emphasis reflects the school’s Signature studies program. Students benefit from the modeling done by these scientists and other experts from partnerships with UA, ASU and ASU Polytechnic Institute. > See video and photos from Cherry Creek field trip
Foothills' Desert Habitat completed
Our new Sonoran Desert Habitat was dedicated at a school-wide assembly on November 5, 2008 and is now the centerpiece for our Biotech signature program that was unveiled at the Paradise Valley Governing Board Meeting of December 4, 2008. It will be a living laboratory that will advance our efforts to become experts in our understanding of water and environmental quality. Our thanks go to the Schoolyard Habitat Foundation for their $10,000 grant that funded this exemplary project. Look for us to be part of the Parade of Ponds around the valley on April 25 and 26, 2009. > Read more
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