001Gade Tech environmental science and sustainability is a three-year Career Technical education program with one main goal set in mind to achieve a greater understanding of our environment and how humans impact it Mr Adams instructs his students on the role with every aspect in an ecosystem and explains how students can use sustainable practices to support them students will learn how to care for the nature around them and be equipped with the knowledge to make a real difference in our Earth's future environmental touches on many different facets of nature so no student is left uninterested students learn how to keep bees and will receive their beekeeping license by the end of their senior year the program goes into depth on the importance of preserving New Jersey's native plants students will learn to Foster native plants and will
002hold a community sale for them every spring students will work together to build and maintain an aquaponic system aquaponics is an independent system system that uses fish water plants and the properties of nitrogen to create a sustainable closed loop system the fish and plants are then handed over to our culinary program and used in our very own restaurant the perch students will also partner with Stockton University to tap red maple trees and make their very own maple syrup some field trips include the Philadelphia Flower Show Rucker shellfish lab Stockton University native Gardens and more to come seniors can expect to become beekeeper certified Wastewater management certified and to receive pesticide fertilization certifications from Ruckers students also obtain membership in Kate May Tech's FFA chapter where they have access to leadership and career growth opportunities through
003agriculture education joining environmental science and sustainability is not only a pathway to related careers but will equip students with a significant knowledge on why it's important to promotee sustainability within our environment [Music]