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"Gardening with Class" is About Bringing School Gardens into Classrooms (Scholarship Deadline This Week)
Gardening with Class 2018 is the San Diego County Master Gardener Association’s biennial conference for teachers, parents, and others who are involved with one of the more than 700 school gardens throughout the county.
The all-day conference will be held on Saturday, October 20th at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. The focus of the conference this year is on utilizing the school garden for teaching core curriculum and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Attendees will have the opportunity to sit in on workshops presented by Master Gardeners on creating and sustaining school gardens, cooking in the garden; educational use and health benefits of school gardens; best practices for bringing NGSS into the garden; plant propagation on a shoestring; and many other subjects.
Continental breakfast & lunch will be provided. Prizes and free veggie pots to take home. Please let teachers and your friends with school age children know about the conference.
And this week, an amazing opportunity has presented itself for persons interested in attending, We have received generous donations from the Village Garden Club of La Jolla, Fagan, Friedman and Fulfrost Attorneys at Law, and Delta Kappa Gamma International Society for Key Women Educators designed to provide more than 30 scholarships for attendees.
The scholarships will be provided in the form of reimbursements of the $50 registration fee. You must complete and submit a brief application form as well as physically attend the school gardens conference on October 20th. You are eligible to apply even if you have already registered and paid for the conference. Applications will be reviewed and selected by School Garden Committee members. Submission of an application does not automatically mean you will be funded. Reimbursement will be provided by check. The deadline for submission of the application is September 24th.
The links to the registration system and to the scholarship application form can be found on the conference registration page: http://www.mastergardenersd.org/seminar/.
The Association will also send an email to its full distribution list. If you are still unable to access the application, please call our hotline at 858-822-6910 or email us at gwc@mgasdc.org.
About Master Gardeners of San Diego
One of the least-known treasure troves of information in San Diego County is that over three hundred Master Gardeners provide home gardening and pest control information throughout the county, FREE to the public. Master Gardeners are volunteers trained and supervised by the University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE).
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