Spreading Kindness and Mulch

Published: April 13, 2018
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SkillsUSA Lowe’s grant helps Kennedy High students renovate a playground. Photo: Sofia Mejia, John F. Kennedy High School, Granada Hills, Calif. Used with permission.

Students in architecture, digital design and filmmaking programs applied for and received a $2,250 SkillsUSA Lowe’s grant to help renovate the playground on the campus of John F. Kennedy High School in Granada Hills, Calif.

The students wanted to complete a kindness-themed activity and came up with the plan to fix up that abandoned playground. They removed a tree and a fence, spread mulch and gravel, built planter boxes and painted a playhouse and a brick walkway. 

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