Pictured above: Seventh and eighth-grade students planting dune grass in South Portland on Willard Beach. Their efforts to limit coastal erosion and recent environmental justice project were recently spotlighted in the local news.
"I've grown up spending so much time on beaches. I am really interested in coastal erosion and how climate change affects our beaches in Maine. I was really excited to learn about this project in South Portland and how my class could be involved," shared an FSP seventh-grade student about his year-end project.
His class teamed up with former FSP science teacher and alum parent Jamien P'20 '21 and FSP grad Tristram Howard'12 to plant dune grass to limit coastal erosion in South Portland.
Both News Center Maine and Channel 8 News spotlighted this important work:
