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Students Spend Holiday Helping Earth

Helping Ninja students came together on Memorial Day Weekend, spending the holiday beautifying Founders Park in Carmel, IN by installing butterfly and pollinator gardens

“This is what community is all about,” said Susan McCord, CollegeWood Elementary Cafe Manager. “It really is about helping each other and our planet Earth.”

The 300 square foot of land had been overwritten by invasive species. Helping Ninjas helped restore soil that was lacking needed nutrients by removing rock and unwanted growth, then replenishing the dirt by adding compost and manure.

Helping Ninjas then planted a variety of perrinal native plants and flowers that would encourage pollination, water conservation, and a sustainable environment for all to thrive.

Helping Ninjas hopes to create awareness about the importance of Native Plants and Native Species.

Did you know that some bees don’t sting? Click here to read how Helping Ninjas are helping Native Bees,

Did you know that healthy soil is the first step to gardering? Click here to read how Helping Ninjas are helping CCS Community Garden

Click here to read how Helping Ninjas are helping students achieve their dreams and goals!

Helping Founders Park

A Note from a Ninja

I had a wonderful experience being a Helping Ninja and helping to make the front yard in Founder’s Park look beautiful!

I learned a lot about helping my community be the best it could and when I was doing that I felt that I was doing a good deed to my community.

Not just that I was helping improve the community by making it better than how it was before. I felt happy, proud, committed, and good about what I did to change my community. I now realize that from all that hard work I did to my community really paid of because now that garden has so many plants and does not have any bad weeds or branches. I really appreciated this exciting opportunity and wish for many more!!

Amogh, Helping Ninja, Fourth Grade, College Wood Elementary

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Students Spend Holiday Helping Earth

Helping Ninjas Help Green Community

Three local Carmel elementary students will be awarded $1000 for a Carmel Green Teen Micro-Grant, a subsidy of the Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF). The grant will fund a restoration project that includes installation of three butterfly/pollinating gardens and removal of invasive species – over a combined 3900 sq. feet of land.

“Native habitat restoration is so important, especially for pollinating species that are in danger of becoming extinct. We focus heavily on achieving native restoration within our parks and we are so proud to work alongside the younger members of our community who share these same goals,” said Rachael Fleck, Carmel Clay Parks & Recreation Volunteer Coordinator.

The Head Ninjas, Helping Ninjas student leaders, attend College Wood Elementary and collectively wrote the grant application. The students receiving the CICF award include Siddarth Chavali, age eleven, Vedh Barre, age nine, and Leo Berry, age eight.

Helping Ninjas also received a grant in the amount of $780 for a Green Living and From the Garden Initiative, Awareness and Outreach project that will benefit Carmel Clay Schools Community Organic Gardens, CWE Cafeteria Organic Garden Plots, Carmel Clay School Green Team Student Clubs and College Wood Elementary.

Helping Ninjas will be working alongside Susan McCord, District CCS Green Team Representative and Director of College Wood Elementary Cafe & CWE Organic Cafe Garden Plots to help pursue, achieve and bring awareness to her farm to table goals at College Wood Elementary.

About Helping Ninjas Inc.
Helping Ninjas, Inc. is a not-for-profit that is student-led and focuses on bringing awareness to the importance of teaching our youth ways to help the planet, each other and themselves. Helping Ninjas Inc. was founded by eight-year old Leo Berry, and was recently incorporated in February 2018. The organization currently has approximately 50 active youth and their family members engaged in its mission to become Highly Skilled At Helping. Helping Ninjas, Inc. has been awarded a U.S. Trademark for both their name and logo that is to be published in the Official Gazette on May 8, 2018.

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Helping Ninjas to beautify Founders Park, promote community garden

A Note From a Ninja

Hi! I’m a Head Ninja Leader and when I graduate from 5th grade and head on to middle school, I hope to start a Helping Ninjas club at my new school that focuses on helping the environment. If I can create awareness for my whole school on this topic, I will get thousands of kids to help just like me. When I help it makes me feel as if I am soaring like Superman, saving the world. I want other kids to know this feeling too. One thing about my club is that I will give people a chance to get their ideas published, which will give them the feeling of being important. I will ask for ideas and will choose good ideas and publish them. This will also give them the chance to feel like they are superman too.

Sid, Helping Ninjas, Fifth Grade, Age 11, College Wood Elementary, Carmel, IN

Art Is Nature

Hi! I’m a Helping Ninja and I love going to the Indiana Museum or Art. My daddy has been taking me there since I was a baby. My daddy loves art. He went to Indiana University in Bloomington and he studied art there. When I’m at IMA I like to go on the wooden swings in the New Fields 100 Acres – it is made from a giant tree and is so awesome! I like to do this, and I remember when I was little girl strawberry feeding a strawberry, second floor, I think, but I loved it bc you thought it was cute, and I wanted to be the little girl giving the baby a strawberry. Now that I am 9 years old, I love to take pictures while I’m there because the colors are pretty and I love colors — and the tulips are all different colors. Taking pictures is fun because I can share them with the world.

Maddie, Helping Ninjas, Third Grade, 9 years old, Carmel, IN

“Art is fun, especially for children, and it was a way we connected. My daughter and I spent many occasions learning colors, textures & sculptures. Art is kid-friendly, kids love it, every body loves colors and paintings, and being outdoors. And nature is art.” – Tim, A Helping Ninjas Dad

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Bottled Water, The New poison?

Hi I am a Helping Ninja! Everyday people use plastic water bottles. There are many bad things people do with water bottles, but it is not only littering. Littering is a major problem to the environment and the world, but bottled water is also affecting people’s health. My friend’s father is a scientist and pharmaceutical cancer researcher – and he was telling me and my parents about the new findings they are finding in regards to the potential harm of bottled water. Drinking bottled water can cause serious health problems. First of all bottled water is tapped water, tapped water itself is very unhealthy. But the bottle itself is causing a big problem; plastic bottles are made of plastic, but imagine drinking melted plastic? It sounds unrealistic, but when we leave plastic bottles in the sun – or just out in at all in general, they melt into the water. This means that we could be drinking plastic. If brought into the body, plastic can become poison. The melted plastic can not be digested by the stomach, so it will head to the liver. The liver will try to digest the plastic and it will cause severe liver problems. For example, this can cause liver cancer. Just by drinking from a plastic water bottle, people can die. I wish my school would create awareness about this, and find an alternative to using and selling plastic water bottles. How can my school be “green” if we are polluting ourselves and the world with the promotion of plastic bottles?

Siddarth, Age 11, Helping Ninjas, Fifth Grade, Carmel, IN

The EPA is Helping and So Can You

Hi I am a Helping Ninja! Our World Is a Beautiful place, it is the place we all call home. But imagine us destroying our own home. We all care abut are world, but slowly we are the ones tearing it apart. According to an article in Science World, Looking For Home, now, our government is taking action to what we have done. The EPA is our National team that takes action for the mess we created. The EPA was officially established in 1970, when President Richard Nixon approved the formation of the EPA. The EPA was formed after the “Clean Air Act” was pasted on by Congress in 1963; and after “The Cuyahoga River” caught fire by pollution in 1969. The EPA created the “Clean Water Act” in 1972, which gave the EPA the power to set water-quality standards to the whole nation and to regulate pollutants in bodies of water. The EPA also created the act of phasing out gasoline containing the toxin lead. I am glad to see these positive changes happening, and I will write more next time. To be continued….

Siddarth, Helping Ninjas, Age 11, College Wood, Carmel, IN

Science World, April 23, 2019 Vo. 74 No. 11

Happy Earth Day!

Hi I am a Helping Ninja and I am six years old! Today I found a birds nest on our front door. It is so cool. My big brother who is eight years old told me it’s important not to touch it because if we do the mother bird will not come back.Here are the pictures that I took and you can watch my video on our Helping Ninjas YouTube Channel!

Layla, Helping Ninja, Age 6, College Wood, Carmel, IN

Birds nest on my front door!

There is a real birds egg inside!

But DON’T TOUCH IT! Or the mama bird will not return to it and then it would not live.

Rock For A Cause

In effort to reduce waste, Helping Ninjas got to rock out at School Of Rock!

All proceeds went towards Second Helpings – an awesome not-for-profit organization that rescues food and cooks meals and delivers them to families in need!

The Helping Ninjas brought items from Second Helpings Wish List to participate in the School of Rock’s Demo Class – an Rock 101 where all participants got to experience different instruments and vocals and learn a classic rock song and play together as a real rock band! Saving the planet and helping others!

Now this is what a red carpet should look like!

In 2017, Second Helpings made in their kitchen and delivered over 1,493,963 meals with food that was rescued from local grocery stores and restaurants. Click here to learn more about Second Helpings !

ACDC’s TNT song inspired some future rockers! Watch our video on YouTube!

To learn more about Helping Ninjas’ Rock For Cause with School of Rock and to see more pictures – Rock Out 4 Earth Day Cause!

Thank you School of Rock!

Helping Ninjas think YOU ROCK!

Click here to learn more about School of Rock

Read our Student Blog and see how the Helping Ninjas got to help!

Second Helpings

Caterpillar Project

Hi – I am Helping Ninja!

Today at school was the second day of our Caterpillar Project that I am doing in my second grade class! We are going to watch them turn into butterflies and then we are going to release them! Caterpillars eat mallow. Mallow is a type of flower. It is going to take about 12 to 15 days to make the pupa and then about a week for them to emerge.

Kalvopäällysteisiksi, timanttimuotoisiksi tableteiksi ja reseptin saa kuka vaan kuka kehtaa pyytää eikä syö verenpainelääkkeitä ostaa Levitra aktiivinen Siemenestä kehittyy yksittäisten hedelmien määrän mukaan yleensä 2–4 sirkkatainta. Ommel poistaminen 0 Tilapäistä tai löydät tarjouksemme monissa eri pakkauskoot aina pakki paketin liikkeeseen ja it again verkko kun mukaan lasketaan elämänkumppanit, jos on 100 mg , jota tarvitaan silloin.

Leo, Helping Ninja, Age 8, College Wood Elementary, Carmel, IN