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Dinah Rowe, Heard County 4-H agent, and Kelly Atkins, a fourthgrade teacher, secured a Carroll EMC Bright Ideas grant to fund a school pollinator garden. Students participated in planting native Georgia species, watering and maintaining the garden. The project helped foster environmental stewardship and provided hands-on learning about local ecosystems, responsibility, and pollinator conservation. Participation in the Great Southeast Pollinator Census also taught students about how pollinators contribute to our environment. This empowered the students to be a part of a larger, important citizen science initiative and aided researchers and farmers in understanding pollinators and their agricultural impact.