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The Championship Round of the Food Growing League Fall 2019-2020 season decides who of the four competitors: Cone Elementary (Greensboro), Northview Middle (Hickory), Stokesdale Elementary (Stokesdale), and Leesville Road Middle (Raleigh) will become Champion.
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Round 3 of the Food Growing League Fall 2019-2020 season brings us one step closer to the Championship featuring Leesville Road Middle (Raleigh) versus Cone Elementary (Greensboro) and Northview Middle (Hickory) competing with Stokesdale Elementary (Stokesdale) for the best radish microgreen harvest.
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Round 2 of the Food Growing League Fall 2019-2020 season continues growing gardencress this time with Stokesdale Elementary (Stokesdale) back to take on Leesville Road Middle (Raleigh) and Cone Elementary (Greensboro) squaring off with Northview Middle (Hickory).
Round 2’s Pet Food Sales had a surprising result.
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The first round of the Food Growing League is here with three familiar schools plus a new competitor in the Fall 2019-2020 season.
Cone Elementary (Greensboro) takes on Stokesdale Elementary (Stokesdale) and newcomer Northview Middle (Hickory) goes up against Leesville Road Middle (Raleigh) for the best Tendergreen Harvest.
As a Bonus Round, we have Pet Food Sales after the matches. This Bonus Round allows students in the League using our GrowBuck program to sell their harvests to other students. This way students have another way to win plus get to practice their math and financial literacy skills.
Tuesday, July 16th is your last chance to catch the ReBuildUp booth and the Food Growing League at the NC CTE Summer Convention in Greensboro.
ReBuildUp is located at Booth #212 near the back next to the NC ACTE’s $500 Cash Raffle. Stop by and learn more about our programs.
Charlotte’s Invest Collegiate Middle took the top spot with a 4-0 record to win both their Conference B Title and the overall Food Growing League Spring Season Championship with the tallest basil plants.
Hendersonville’s Sugarloaf Elementary won the Conference A Title and Pleasant Garden Elementary received first place for both the number of plants sold at 45 and most money raised with $200 going towards their school’s technology fund.
View the Championship Round video and scorecards here.
Congratulations again to the winners and special thanks to all the students and especially the teachers who made this season possible.
We’ll see everyone again for the Fall Season October through January when schools will be vying for the best microgreen harvest by weight.
Contact us if your school is interested in joining the Food Growing League.
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It’s finally here, the 2018-19 Food Growing League Spring Season Championship. Started in February, students have been growing their basil plants for 3 months now. See pictures of what they’ve grown and find out which classes had the tallest harvests in the video, podcast, and scorecards above. If viewing in an email, click page link above to view video and podcast.
We’d like to thank the teachers who helped make this program possible in their classrooms!
If you’d like your class to join the League, you can learn more by clicking here.
We’re also launching our attendance and financial literacy GrowBuck program that can be integrated with the League for those interested in a new way to help students practice their math skills.
Hope everyone has a great summer and we look forward to the Fall Season starting in October.
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March’s Round 3 of the Food Growing League Spring Season has BSLA Conference with Stokesdale Elementary vs. Cone Elementary, Pleasant Garden Elementary vs. Sugarloaf Elementary. In BSLB Conference,Leesville Road Middle vs. Invest Collegiate Middle andEastern Wayne High vs. Ayden Grifton High in a draw match since both were unable to participate . Watch video above for the results.
The rebuildup.com Podcast (click audio button above) covers Round 3 Scores for the Spring Season of the Food Growing League and how Lettuce helps with cholesterol. If viewing in an email, click page link to view video and podcast.
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BONUS ROUND
March’s Round 2 of the Food Growing League Spring Season starts off in BSLA Conference with Stokesdale Elementary competing with Pleasant Garden Elementary and Match 2 with Sugarloaf Elementary up against Cone Elementary. In BSLB Conference, Invest Collegiate Middle takes on Ayden Grifton High and Leesville Road Middle vs. Eastern Wayne High. Watch video above for the results.
The rebuildup.com Podcast (click audio button above) covers Round 2 Scores for the Spring Season of the Food Growing League, Talking to Plants to help them grow, Onions for Hair Growth, Boosting attendance with GrowBucks, and more. You can also click here for this post containing Video & Audio.
TALKING TO PLANTS TO HELP THEM GROW
Here’s the link to a video clip discussing successful experiments in helping plants grow faster through speech and music. Warning: some mild language is used as part of the experiment. CLICK HERE
Check out the new official Food Growing League T customized with your name and team number to help support growing this program.
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[NOTE: Original Class Ranking was incorrect. It has been fixed]
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BONUS ROUND
The first round of the Spring Season is all about basil with 8 schools across North Carolina vying for the tallest crop and the most Customer Surveys in the Bonus Round. Watch the video or click on the rebuildup.com Podcast player above to hear audio of the competition if you’re unable to view the video.
Schools participating this Spring Food Growing League include Sugarloaf (Hendersonville), Cone (Greensboro), Pleasant Garden (Pleasant Garden), and Stokesdale (Stokesdale) Elementaries in the BSLA Conference and Leesville Road (Raleigh) & Invest Collegiate (Charlotte) Middle Schools along with Eastern Wayne High (Goldsboro) and Ayden-Grifton (Ayden) High in the BLSB Conference.
