GEEKs in Action

GEEKs resources and support have been put to good use in multiple states. Here are a few stories of GEEKs in action, as well as the partners who are working with GEEKs to make things happen!
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Wisconsin

Conserve School students
and Land O' Lakes kids
show off their finished pet rocks.

Land O' Lakes: In the first-ever GEEKs event, nine high school volunteers from Conserve School took a bus to the Northwoods Children's Museum to use the GEEKs-written lesson plan for the children's book "The Salamander Room" (check out the lesson plan here!) to talk to kids about ecology. Everyone went home with a pet rock, too!
Partners: Northwoods Children's Museum, Conserve School

Conserve School students make pet rocks with kids from
Land O' Lakes

Constantine shows off
his leaf print.

Bristol: The Pringle Nature Center featured a children's program led by a GEEKs cofounder. The program included a storytime and the kids also loved making leaf prints!
Partner: Pringle Nature Center

Minnesota

A poster advertising the first meeting of
a GEEKs-run middle school
Earth Group

Roseville: With help from the GEEKs network, a GEEKs team member started and now leads an environmental club at a local middle school! Other high school volunteers help to lead each club meeting, and the group focuses on doing projects that reach out to the rest of the school, so the club provides lots of opportunities for leadership. Read more on this club in the popular GEEKs blog series "I'm Starting an Environmental Club!"
Partner: Roseville Area Middle School

St. Paul: Participation from GEEKs helped the Minnesota Youth Environmental Network organize their Spring Gathering, which was a huge success! High school and college students from across the state gathered to share their ideas about sustainability, put on polar bear masks to make a video petition about clean energy, and help plant native species at the polluted Sarita Wetland nearby.
Partner: Minnesota Youth Environmental Network

Students at the MNYEN Spring Gathering don polar bear
masks to make a video petition

A student plants native species in
St. Paul's Sarita wetland area

Illinois

A GEEKs cofounder working
with kids in an outdoor natur
program

Gurnee: A GEEKs cofounder has been running children's reading circles at her local nature center, and has just received a summer internship position there! Congratulations!

Michigan

Houghton: A GEEKs-inspired program at Houghton Elementary gives kids an introduction to the joys of gardening with help from GEEKs member Mari!