The Home Depot Donates Funds For School Garden Project

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The Home Depot recently donated $200 for High Point Elementary School’s fourth grade Garden Project.

The fourth grade will be planting many vegetables, such as tomatoes, broccoli and others.

High Point students have been focusing on this question, “How can we, as members of the High Point community, promote healthy eating while simultaneously improving the overall appearance of our campus?”

The class spent the last days of the school year working hard to make this garden the best it can be, High Point officials said.

“The school is very excited to start this project as it can help other kids eat healthier and improve the school’s appearance,” the school added.

In other High Point Elementary news, the school earlier this month held its Great Egg Drop for fifth-grade students.

Teams work hard to use science to determine the best way to protect an egg so it does not break when dropped from high in the sky. Comcast provided the bucket truck to launch the eggs from above to students who waited eagerly below on the ground to see which eggs did not break.

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Photo 1: Mary Walker and Cecile Charron measure space for the new garden at High Point Elementary
Photo 2: Eddie Bueno starts the garden with a ground breaking scoop!
Photo 3: Students Nina Ouellette, Sammy Stone, and Max Hilsen work as a team to see if their egg is still intact after the drop.
Photo 4: High Point fifth-grade students watch eagerly as Comcast volunteers coordinate the egg drop.
Photo credits: High Point Elementary School