1st Annual Bat Festival The kindergarten grade level at New Prospect Elementary School recently hosted its 1st Annual Kindergarten Bat Festival. The students have been focusing on an in-depth research project regarding the endangered Georgia Grey Bat. The students wanted to do whatever they could to help this endangered animal, so they put lots of effort, planning and creativity into developing a plan. They created carnival-style, bat-themed games, which were played by the New Prospect school community members for voluntary donations to raise money for their Georgia Bat Conservation groups. In addition, the students built and painted twenty bat houses (with donations of wood from Lowes, which were pre-cut and drilled by the woodshop students at Gwinnett Technical College). Eight of the bat houses were auctioned to raise money, and some of the remaining bat houses will be donated to local nature centers and the National Park in Alpharetta. Each of the four classes intends to keep one bat house, which will be mounted on the school campus, so students will be able to observe the bats going and coming for years to come.
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