Kay Jones and Charlotte Cook of Carver Magnet Elementary recently received a $2,000 grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation for a Litter-Free Zone at their school. Carver is the first school in the LRSD to become involved in this grant program. It is a student-centered program where students learn to be "litter scene investigators." The students begin their investigation by flagging trash around the building. Their investigation includes such methods as measuring how much trash was found per square foot, understanding perimeter and other forms of measurement and utilizing creative problem solving and scientific inquiry to figure out how to best solve the problem. Thanks to this grant Carver will not only become a cleaner place for students to learn, but it also will produce better problem solvers!