Join the School Community Tree Challenge! The High School Community Tree Challenge is a new program to inspire you to develop and implement tree planting plans for your school communities. Through the Challenge, students, teachers, and parents will promote tree planting in schoolyards and surrounding neighbourhoods, including parks, residential yards, and other areas.

Here is how the program works:

1. Form your Challenge team of students, teachers, parents, and administrators.
2. Learn more about the Challenge from your school’s Public Health Nurse and from the program materials in the links below.
3. Decide which projects you would like to implement in your school community. A “menu” of suggested projects will help you plan. Each school is encouraged to plant, sell, give away, or grow at least 150 trees on their schoolyard, nearby parks, or residential yards.
4. Complete a simple proposal and submit it electronically to your Public Health Nurse by May 1, 2014.
5. Your tree planting project will take place in spring 2014 or during the 2014-2015 school year.

Important Details

Below are links to materials that will help you understand how the Challenge works, as well as a Proposal Form and Proposal Guide.

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Proposal Guide
• Proposal Form (Word document)