It is with great excitement that we share that Freedom High School, in partnership with GMU and the BLM, was awarded a $10,000 NEEF (National Environmental Education Foundation) BLM Greening STEM grant.  60 students from Freedom will take a field trip to BLM's LPFS to study invasive plant species. GMU will also provide in-class lessons. Equipped with knowledge, students will design and construct a rain garden on Freedom's campus with the help of local experts. We plan to start the grant in late Sept./early Oct. and conclude in May of 2023.  

Schools Investigating Invasives on Public Lands (SIIPL)

School Partner: Freedom High School, Woodbridge, VA

The Bureau of Land Management Lower Potomac Field Station (LPFS) will partner with George Mason University’s (GMU) Potomac Environmental Research and Education Center and Freedom High School in Woodbridge, Virginia, to investigate the impacts of storm flow and invasive species on ecological communities at their school and the LPFS site. This project will provide students with extensive, hands-on learning experiences to make them better citizen scientists and increase awareness of human impact on the environment.