Fifth Annual
Green Our Planet
School Garden Conference
Fifth Annual School Garden Conference
Save the Date:
Saturday April 27 from 9:00am- 5:00 PM
Location:
Rob Roy’s Innevation Center, powered by Switch
6795 Edmond St.
Las Vegas, NV, 89118
Educators, administrators, and the public are welcome to join us and learn about the rapidly growing school garden movement in Las Vegas. Teaching in an outdoor classroom is an innovative way for teachers to improve STEAM and nutrition education as well as influence students to conserve and protect the planet.
Please join us as more than 50 teachers, principals, students, and keynote speakers share their accomplishments that have helped to expand Las Vegas school gardens over the past year. This event is open to the public.
For more information, check our list of Frequently Asked Questions.
Tickets include breakfast,
lunch, and a reception.
Event Partners
Event Sponsors
Innevation Center Floorplan
High Impact, Zero Waste!
This event is designed as zero-carbon and zero-waste.
Your attendance at the 5th Annual Green Our Planet School Garden Conference is valued, and we want to ensure that you participate in our zero waste goal throughout the event. To do so, please keep in mind that there will be no trash cans provided on site. There will only be recycling and composting options available. With that goal in mind, please click the button for some zero waste tips:
Drinks
We promise you won't go thirsty, but...
Drinks
Please bring your personal water bottle/coffee mug from home so you can fill up throughout the day and not create waste by using disposable cups.
Water, iced tea, and coffee will be provided.
Notes
We promise you will get lots of great information, but...
Notes
Please bring your own paper and pen so you can write vital information.
Powerpoints will be available to attendees online after the Conference.
Transit
We want you to arrive on time, but...
Carpool
Please car pool to the event if possible.
No Waste
Bring what ever you need, but...
No Waste
Any trash you do bring, please take it out with you. Pretend you're on a hike: Pack it In - Pack it Out!
Recycling and Composting bins will be provided. There will be NO trash cans available.
| Event: | School Garden Conference |
| Date: | Saturday, April 27, 2019 |
| Registration: | 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM |
| Conference: | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Location: | The Innevation Center, 3rd Floor 6795 Edmond St. Las Vegas, NV 89118 |
There is plenty of free parking outside. Please only park in un-covered parking spaces, as all covered parking is accounted for by tenants of the building.
Hydroponics Raffle Rules & Regulations:
- Three employees from your school must be present at the conference for 1 entry into the raffle.
- Each additional employee present will receive an additional entry for your school into the raffle (ex. 6 attendees = 4 tickets, 8 attendees = 6 tickets).
- You must be employed by a school to win (i.e. you must be a teacher, administrator, counselor etc. from a school, not an employee within the district office or another organization/company)
- Entrance into the raffle will be given as attendees check in at the conference on October 20.
- System will be ready for delivery in January 2019.
- Winner must use the provided GoP hydroponics curriculum.
- In winner is located outside of the Las Vegas area they are in charge of delivery logistics & costs.
- If winner is located outside of the Las Vegas area GoP hydroponics consulting will take place via Skype.
Green Our Planet (GoP) is a creative, entrepreneurial, non-profit conservation organization that operates a free environmental crowdfunding platform and also runs the largest school garden program in the United States. Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, GoP offers a unique funding and educational model to help individuals and organizations reach their mission goals, while supporting innovative education and conservation efforts. GoP achieves its mission by actively partnering with foundations, individuals, organizations and corporations to collectively create positive impact in environmental education and change. Through its environmental crowdfunding platform, Green Our Planet simultaneously offers the public an opportunity to both learn about environmental challenges and to help fund green projects that can help solve some of those challenges.
