2016 Ceremony

Photos of all funded projects can be viewed on the
Funded Projects page
On March 24, 2016 the Carmel Green Teen Micro-Grant Program awarded over $5000 to eight youth groups in Carmel to fund their youth-led environmental sustainability projects. The event was held in the City of Carmel Council Chambers, and each group was given a "big check" and asked to summarize their project for the crowd.
Smoky Row Elementary Green Team students will be promoting and distributing reusable shopping bags.
Members of Boy Scout troop 202 will build a large, wooden, 3-compartment compost bin system at the CCS Plots to Plates Organic Community Garden.
The OPE Green Cubs students will plant a Tulip Poplar tree on campus this year to help everyone remember the many benefits of trees and their role in a healthy environment.
Students in University High School Biology classes will use chickens to connect with nature, to learn food responsibility, and to understand various complex ecosystems.
Members of Boy Scout troop 120 will be joined by community members to enhance and expand a nature trail near the Millbrook neighborhoods.
Scouts in Boy Scout Troop 109 will revamp a long neglected Teaching Butterfly Garden in a Woodbrook Elementary School courtyard area.
Scouts in Boy Scout troop 576 will create a self-guided tour of the CCS Plates to Plots Organic Community Garden. The garden tour will consist of seven educational stations describing the areas of the garden with environmental benefits.
Scouts in Boy Scout Troop 125 will replace ten Ash trees which had been destroyed by the Emerald Ash Borer with a variety of healthy native Indiana shade trees which will be drought tolerant and disease resistant.
The Carmel Green Teen youth board administers the entire grant program as well as the ceremony.
Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard supports our program and attends each award ceremony. This is a big deal for students and parents alike.