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Micheltorena Elementary Students Win Farm Field Trip
Micheltorena students will have the chance to visit a farm where LAUSD gets its fruits and vegetables for school lunches.
Five Los Angeles Unified School District teachers and their students, including students from Micheltorena Elementary School, won field trips to farms where food served in cafeterias is grown, it was announced Thursday.
The winners of the district's "Farm To School" contest received a $200 gift card for school supplies and a chance to take up to 60 students to a farm where the district gets its fruits and vegetables.
Paul Sanchez was the winning teacher for Micheltorena Elementary. In addition to Micheltorena, the winning schools are:
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- Pete Keuper of San Miguel Avenue Magnet School;
- Sandy Cimarrusti of Dorris Place Elementary;
- Jennifer DiLorenzo of Kester Avenue Elementary
- Eileen Washington of Wilshire Crest Elementary; and
To win the field trips, teachers submitted photos of working gardens at their schools, along with essays about how the field trip would teach students about nutrition and local, sustainable food supplies.
More information about the campaign is posted at www.facebook.com/ImInLAUSD.
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