Ideas for Take Pride School Projects
- Clean up a park or a beach
- Replace or build playground equipment
- Create or improve wildlife habitat areas
- Maintain or build trails
- Guide visitors at a public lands facility
- Monitor water quality in public rivers
- Click here for volunteer opportunities in your area!
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Click here to register your school as a Take Pride School. The benefits to becoming a Take Pride School include:
Publicity Projects may be published on our website, in our blog, or in other publications.
National Awards Projects are eligible to receive one of our National Awards, presented annually at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.
Networks Enter a network with other Take Pride in America partners - cities, corporations and more - who help you host top quality projects.
Take Pride in America Schools
The Take Pride Schools program was launched in the fall of 2005 to introduce a new generation to volunteerism and create future stewards of our public lands.
To be designated as a Take Pride School, a school must commit to participating in one Take Pride volunteer event each year benefiting public lands. Participation can be by an entire school, a class, or even an after-school club. Projects must be on public lands (public schools included!), promote Take Pride's message, and benefit public use of public land. Email us descriptions of your project along with photos of the event for Take Pride newsletters and website spotlights!
The Take Pride Schools Program now offers teachers a Take Pride School Kit to enhance service-learning nationwide.
- The Toyota-sponsored school kit provides teachers with the necessary resources, such as work gloves, seeds, and garbage bags, to engage students in hands-on service-learning.
- Take Pride Schools Program is open to all K-12 schools, and offers additional resources to teachers and students such as posters, pencil packs, and other youth stewardship incentives.
Take Pride School Spotlight
On
October 28, 2008, students from Take Pride School-Hyattsville Elementary,
Hyattsville, Md., came to the U.S. Department of the Interior to witness
Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne signing an order. The
order extends the authorization of Take Pride in America® within
the Department of the Interior through the year 2010.
As part of the ceremony, 6th grade teacher Mrs. Amelia Davis, brought two students from her schools Talented and Gifted (TAG) program; Jose Mendoza Duarte and Billy Kennedy III.
Hyattsville Elementary School has been a Take Pride in America School for two years. Each year students, teachers and parents participate in Gorgeous Prince George’s Day. They plant trees, shrubs and bulbs in an effort to beautify the school grounds. In addition, students from the TAG program pulled weeds and planted native Maryland plants to protect the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The students took a trip on board a skipjack to learn more about bay conservation, pollution, and the habitat of animals and plants on the Chesapeake Bay. They also displayed a “museum” research project in the school’s media center to increase student awareness of the beauty, problems and environmental importance of the bay.
If you would like information on how to become a Take Pride School, visit our website at www.TakePride.gov or contact us at 202-208-5848.
Take Pride in America Schools
- Academy of Richmond County Comprehensive High School, Augusta, GA
- Audubon Elementary School, Merritt Island, FL
- Balaton Public School Balaton, MN
- Batesburg-Leesville Elementary School Batesburg-Leesville, SC
- Beatrice High School, Beatrice, NE
- Beatrice Middle School in Beatrice, NE
- Berkley Charter School Auburndale, FL
- Big Walnut Elementary School Sunbury, OH
- Boundary Street Elementary School, Newberry, SC
- Carencro High School, Lafayette, LA
- Carmel River School Carmel, CA
- Cascade Discovery High School, Leavenworth, WA
- CB Greer Elementary School Brunswick, GA
- Clifton High School, Clifton, NJ
- Chambers Middle School, Arcola, MS
- Charles R. Drew Middle School, Lincoln, AL
- Christopher Columbus Middle School, Clifton, NJ
- Classical Academy Charter School, Clifton, NJ
- Community Schoolhouse, Salem, OR
- Cookeville High School, Cookeville, TN
- Cornerstone High School Galena, KS
- Crook County High School Rotational Work Crew, Prineville, OR
- Deer Creek Elementary School in Edmund, OK
- Dickenson County Career Center, Clinchco, VA
- Dolores Huerta Elementary School, Stockton, CA
- Dowling Catholic High School, West Des Moines, Iowa
- Dr. William Bailey Middle School, Las Vegas, NV
- East Clinton Elementary School, Huntsville, AL
- Epiphany Cathedral School Venice, FL
- Eugenio Maria de Hostos High School Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
- Fir Grove Elementary School, Roseburg, OR
- Forest Hills Northern High School, Grand Rapids, MI
- Fremont Middle School Roseburg, OR
- Gaylord Intermediate School, Frederic, MI
- Glendale High School, Glendale, OR
- Glendale Jr.-Sr. High School, Flinton, PA
- Grafton Middle School, Yorktown, VA
- Greenville High School, Greenville, TX
- Joseph Lane Middle School, Roseburg, OR
- Hahira Middle School Hahira, GA
- Hampstead Elementary School, Hampstead, MD
- Haven Homeschoolers, Winter Haven, FL
- Hayden Elementary School, Hayden, Indiana
- Holy Trinity Episcopal School, Houston, Texas
- Hope-Page Elementary School, Hope, ND
- Horizons Lake Educational Center, Camdenton, MO
- Houck Middle School, Salem, OR
- Hyattsville Elementary School, Hyattsville, MD
- Kosciuszko Middle School, Milwaukee, WI
- Indian Brook Elementary School, Plymouth, MA
- Interior School, Interior, SD
- Jericho Middle School, Jericho, NY
- Jupiter Community High School, Jupiter, FL
- La Entrada Middle School, Menlo Park, CA
- Lakes Middle School, Coeur d'Alene, OR
- Manuel Public School, Manuel, ND
- McDonald Green Elementary School Lancaster, SC
- Menlo-Atherton High School, Atherton, CA
- Montpelier Public School, Montpelier, North Dakota
- Mount Vernon elementary School, Yorktown, VA
- N.P. Moss Middle School Lafayette, LA
- Newburg United School, Newburg, ND
- North Central School, Rogers, North Dakota
- Northshore Elementary School, Brandon, MS
- Oconomowoc Middle School Oconomowoc, WI
- Ottawa Hills High School Grand Rapids, Michigan
- P.S. 111 Seton Falls School, Bronx, NY
- Palm Bay Elementary Palm Bay, FL
- Pershing Elementary School Orlando, FL
- Phoenix School, Roseburg, Oregon
- Pi Beta Phi Elementary School, Gatlinburg, TN
- Pinehurst Elementary School, Pinehurst, NC
- Pittsburg CBI at Pittsburg Adult Education
- Polaris K-12, Anchorage, AK
- Ponderosa Elementary School, Post Falls, ID
- Potlatch Elementary School, Potlatch, ID
- Prairie View Elementary School, Post Falls, ID
- Princess Anne High School, Virginia Beach, VA
- Rees Elementary, Spanish Fork, UT
- Riddle Education Center Riddle, OR
- Riverside High School (Student Council), El Paso, TX
- Rock Springs High School in Green River, WY
- Sacred Heart School, Clifton, NJ
- Sage Creek Elementary School, Springville, Utah
- Saint Clare School, Clifton, NJ
- School #1, Clifton, NJ
- School #2, Clifton, NJ
- School #3, Clifton, NJ
- School #4, Clifton, NJ
- School #5, Clifton, NJ
- School #8, Clifton, NJ
- School #9, Clifton, NJ
- School #11, Clifton, NJ
- School #12, Clifton, NJ
- School #13, Clifton, NJ
- School #14, Clifton, NJ
- School #15, Clifton, NJ
- School #16, Clifton, NJ
- School #17, Clifton, NJ
- Scott Middle School, Scott, LA
- Southside High School Elmira, NY
- St. Agnes Academy/St. Dominic School Memphis, TN
- St. Andrew the Apostle School, Clifton, NJ
- St. Brendan School, Clifton, NJ
- St. Philip's School, Clifton, NJ
- Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
- Tuckahoe Elementary School, Arlington, VA
- Union Park Elementary School, Orlando, FL
- Uptown School Complex, Atlantic City, NJ
- Utica Elementary School Utica, KY
- Walker Memorial Academy Avon Park, FL
- Wayne Elementary School Corydon, IA
- West Geauga High School, Chesterland, OH
- West Geauga Middle School, Chesterland, OH
- West Pine Middle School, West End, NC
- Wing Public School, Wing, ND
- Winslow Township School #6, Sickler, NJ
- Woodman School Lolo, MT
- Woodrow Wilson Middle School, Clifton, NJ
- Yosemite National Park Valley School, Yosemite, CA
