LTHS STEM Students Give Back With Wildlife Habitat Project

LOCKPORT, IL — Lockport Township High School STEM Exploration students have partnered with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and Cog Hill golf course to create bluebird houses and bat boxes to use on their properties. The school said three state parks and Cog Hill agreed to supply materials for students to use for this endeavor.

The students agreed to not only build the specified wildlife habitat projects, but to donate them back to these areas for the public to enjoy. The three state parks include Walnut Point State Park in Oakland, Lincoln Trail State Park in Marshall and Kankakee River State Park in Bourbonnais.

LTHS said freshmen students logged hundreds of man-hours toward the effort.

“I found the birdhouse project to be a very challenging, but fun project. It feels good to build birdhouses and bat boxes to help out parks and other places. I made some mistakes, but I worked through them,” student John Ward said.

Isaiah Rogers agreed, adding that he learned how to work efficiently and find different, faster ways to build.

A total of 90 bluebird houses and 60 bat boxes were manufactured by students.