New York Sun Works

New York Sun Works, founded in 2004 by Ted Caplow, is a non-profit organization that uses hydroponic farming technology to educate students and teachers about the science of sustainability. To further this goal, NY Sun Works created the Greenhouse Project,[1] an initiative dedicated to improving K through 12 grade[2] environmental science education through the lens of urban agriculture, empowering children to make educated choices about their impact on the environment. The Greenhouse Project was inspired by NY Sun Works’ first project, the renowned Science Barge; a prototype, sustainable urban farm and environmental education center previously housed on the Hudson River and now located in Yonkers under different ownership.[3]

New York Sun Works
Formation2004 (2004)
FounderTed Caplow
TypeNonprofit
20-0670312
Legal status501(c)(3)
HeadquartersNew York, New York
Websitehttps://nysunworks.org/

Partnerships

As of August 2019, NY Sun Works has 129 partner schools with completed Greenhouse Classrooms.

NY Sun Works partner schools with completed greenhouse classrooms in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and New Jersey include :

  • The Allen-Stevenson School
  • City As School
  • City College Academy of the Arts
  • Computer School
  • Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem
  • East Harlem School
  • Harlem Renaissance High
  • High School for Environmental Studies
  • Hunter Science HS (MLK Campus) †
  • Institute for Collaborative Education
  • IS 293 City College Academy of the Arts
  • IS 322 The Renaissance Leadership Academy
  • IS 862 Mott Hall II
  • NEST+m †
  • New Design Middle School
  • NYIT – School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Education
  • PS 6 The Lillie Devereaux Blake School
  • PS 20 Anna Silver School
  • PS 028 Wright Brothers
  • PS 48 Michael J. Buczek
  • Ps 98 Shorac Kappoc
  • P.S. 125 Ralph Bunche
  • PS 212 Midtown West
  • PS/IS180, The Hugo Newman College Preparatory School
  • PS149 Sojourner Truth
  • PS150 Tribeca Learning Center †
  • PS152 Dyckman Valley
  • Ps 183 Robert Louis Stevenson
  • PS185 Locke School for Arts and Engineering
  • PS199 Jessie Isador Straus
  • PS208 Alain Locke School for Environmental Stewardship
  • PS333 Manhattan School for Children
  • PS50 Vito Marcantonio
  • United Nations International School
  • Urban Assembly for Green Careers
  • West End Secondary
  • Academy for Environmental Leadership
  • Academy Of Urban Planning
  • Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter
  • Brooklyn Democracy Academy
  • Brooklyn Lab School
  • Brooklyn School of Inquiry
  • Brooklyn STEAM Center
  • Brooklyn technical H.S.
  • Brooklyn Urban Garden School
  • Bushwick Community High School
  • Edward R. Murrow H. S.
  • Elijah Stroud Middle School
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt HS
  • High School For Medical Professions
  • HS of Telecommunication Arts and Technology
  • IS 187, The Christa McAuliffe School
  • IS 211, John Wilson
  • IS 281, Joseph B. Cavallaro
  • IS 383 Philippa Schuyler Middle School for the Gifted and Talented
  • I.S. 239Mark Twain School for the Gifted and Talented
  • MS50 John D. Wells
  • MS582 The Magnet School for Multi-Media Technology
  • MS 890
  • Multicultural High School
  • Origins High School
  • PS 9 Teunis Bergen
  • PS 11 Purvis J Behan Elementary School
  • PS 12 Dr Jacqueline Peek-Davis Elementary
  • PS 15 Patrick F Daly Magnet School of the Arts
  • PS 21 Crispus Attucks
  • PS31 Samuel F. Dupont School
  • PS34 Oliver H. Perry
  • PS41 Francis White
  • PS84 Jose de Diego
  • PS 81 Thaddeus Stevens
  • PS89 Cypress Hills Community School
  • P.S. 118, The Maurice Sendak Community School
  • PS121 Nelson A. Rockefeller
  • PS 123 Suydam Magnet School For STEAM
  • PS 141 NYC Special School District 75
  • PS147 Issac Remsen, School for Environmental Engineering
  • PS152 School of Science and Technology
  • PS 157 The Benjamin Franklin Magnet School for Civic Leadership
  • PS165 Ida Posner †
  • PS 176 The Ovington School
  • P.S 196 Magnet School for Communication and Mixed Media Arts
  • PS 197 The Kings Highway Academy
  • PS 219 Kennedy King Elementary
  • P.S. 233 Langston Hughes
  • P.S 250 George H. Lindsay
  • PS 274 Kosciusko School
  • PS 279, Herman Schreiber
  • P.S.292, Margaret S. Douglas
  • P.S. 297 Abraham Stockton
  • PS373 Brooklyn Transition Center
  • PS376 Felisa Rincón de Gautier
  • P.S. 377 Alejandrina B. De Gautier
  • PS 380 John Wayne Elementary
  • Queens of All Saints Catholic Academy
  • Rachel Carson HS For Coastal Studies
  • St Savior High School
  • St Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Academy
  • The Environmental Study Center
  • Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women
  • The Williamsburg Bridge Magnet School for Communication Media
  • and Arts
  • Williamsburg Preparatory School
  • Bronx Charter School for Excellence
  • Bronxdale High School
  • The Highbridge Green School
  • JM Rapport High School for Career Development
  • PS47x John Randolph School
  • EBC High School for Public Service
  • Francis Lewis High School
  • IS10 Horace Greeley Intermediate School
  • IS126 Albert Shanker School for Visual and Performing Arts
  • Long Island City High School
  • MS 358 The Magnet School for STEAM Exploration and Experiential
  • Learning
  • PS5 Walter Crowley School of Leadership
  • PS14 The Fairview School
  • PS17 Henry David Thoreau
  • PS 26 Rufus King
  • PS70 Long Island Public School
  • PS84 Steinway
  • PS85 Judge Charles J. Vallone School
  • PS122 Mamie Fay
  • PS 126 Albert Shankar School for Visual and Performing Arts
  • PS171 Peter G. Van Alst
  • PS290 ACE Academy for Scholars
  • PS316 Queens Explorers
  • PS349 The Queens School for Leadership and Excellence
  • PS354 The STEM Magnet School
  • John Bowne High School
  • St. Matthias Catholic Academy
  • Thomas A. Edison Career & Tech Education HS
  • The 30th Avenue School (G&T Citywide)
  • Variety Boys and Girls Club
  • William Cullen Bryant High School
  • Young Women’s Leadership School, Astoria
  • PS21 Margaret Emery-Elm Park
  • County Prep High, Jersey City
  • Emerson Middle School, Union City
  • Sojourner Truth Middle School, East Orange
  • Theodore Roosevelt School, Union City
  • Thomas A Edison, Union City
  • Watchung Elementary School, Montclair
† lab no longer in use

NY Sun Works have partnered with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams who announced a $2 million investment in 12 NYSW labs in underserved Brooklyn Communities for fiscal year 2016.

NY Sun Works is also a committed Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) America Commitment to Action partner for the Grow A Lot project which will build greenhouses on vacant lots in areas needing greater access to fresh food. A model for future projects, the first greenhouse will be built in East New York, Brooklyn and incorporate NY Sun Works’ classroom layout and "Discovering Sustainability Science" curriculum, enabling hands-on STEM learning for area schools and community members.[4]

The nonprofit Students for Service has partnered with Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School and NY Sun Works to teach nutrition and distribute food grown in the Greenhouse Classroom to students and neighborhood families.[5]

The Harvard Business School Club of New York recently partnered with NY Sun Works under HBSCNY’s Community Partners program. Assisting with an assessment of potential NY Sun Works partnerships, the team of Community Partners volunteers prepared a set of key recommendations on growth alternatives.[6]

The Greenhouse Project

The Greenhouse Project[1] was created in 2008 to increase K – 8th grade students’ interest and proficiency in STEM education while understanding the environmental issues of their time: global climate change, efficient use of water and energy, building greener cities, and growing a secure and healthy food supply.[7] The Greenhouse Project initiative uses urban agriculture technology to provide an ideal hands-on learning facility paired with a project-based, integrated curriculum.[8]

A greenhouse project classroom can be built as a traditional greenhouse or in a converted classroom to accommodate a hydroponic urban farm and environmental science laboratory. Grade school children grow food while engaging in hands-on learning about nutrition, water resource management, efficient land use, climate change, biodiversity, conservation, contamination, pollution, waste management, and sustainable development. To facilitate this hands-on learning environment, the Greenhouse Project classroom typically includes Nutrient film technique hydroponic growing systems, Dutch-Bucket systems, Vertical Integrated Growing systems, an aquaponics or fish farm tank, a Rainwater harvesting system, a vermi-composting corner, and a weather station.[9]

The 2016 NY Sun Works Curriculum and Science Achievement Report conducted by Kate Gardner Burt, PhD, RD (Teachers College, Columbia University) concluded that students who receive the NY Sun Works curriculum are more likely to score higher on the 4th grade science achievement test than students who do not receive the NY Sun Works curriculum[10]

Achievements
  • Partnered with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams to bring 21st century science and sustainability education into the classroom. [11]
  • School lab funded by participatory budgeting debuts. [12]
  • New York Sun Works wins the HBSCNY Gold Community Partners Leadership Award. [13]
  • 26 greenhouse classrooms are fully operational, and 24 more labs are in development.[14]
  • Created a comprehensive K – 12th grade sustainable STEM curriculum designed for integration with the Greenhouse Classrooms.[15][16]
  • Designed and operated the Science Barge, a classroom and showcase for sustainable hydroponic agriculture which had over 20,000 unique visitors.[17] Now owned and operated by Groundwork Hudson Valley, the Science Barge is still an active teaching tool.[3]
  • Conducted 13 DOE-approved After School Professional Development Program courses on "Water, Energy, and Waste: Integrating Themes of Sustainability into your Classroom," training over 100 teachers.[18]
  • Hosted 4th annual Discovering Sustainability Science Youth Conference, which featured 5th - 8th grade students from NY Sun Works partner schools presenting on a range of topics within the themes of "Building Sustainable Cities," "Building a Sustainable Future," and "Building Sustainable Minds."[19][20][21]
  • Featured in several media outlets including

References
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  5. Camille Bautista, Student Farmers Grow Fresh Vegetables Year-Round for Bed-Stuy Community, DNAinfo, "Student Farmers Grow Fresh Vegetables Year-Round for Bed-Stuy Community - Bed-Stuy - DNAinfo.com New York". Archived from the original on 2015-06-02. Retrieved 2015-05-22. (April 15, 2015).
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  17. Krista Leahy, PHOTOS: New York Sun Works Plants NYC’s First Public School Greenhouse On Top of P.S. 333, Inhabit NYC, http://inhabitat.com/nyc/photos-new-york-sun-works-plants-nycs-first-public-school-greenhouse-on-top-of-p-s-333/ Archived 2015-07-31 at the Wayback Machine (April 15, 2015).
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