A Growing Alliance with Hilton Garden Inn

A garden brimming with plants and blooms that would allure and nourish butterflies and their young. That was the scenario envisioned by 52 Chicago area elementary school students and members of a local Hilton Garden Inn hotel team. Armed with how-to materials, tools, seeds, and other forms of support from the National Gardening Association, the partners tackled the challenge and transformed their ideas into a schoolyard reality.

The project was made possible by a new alliance between the NGA and Hilton Garden Inn hotels. The School Garden Education Program brings hotel team members throughout North America together with local schools to create indoor and outdoor learning gardens and habitats. But the collaboration doesn't stop there. With support from NGA , hotel team members and teachers use the schoolyard oases to help reach learning goals in science and other disciplines, spark students' curiosity, enhance problem-solving skills, and promote environmental responsibility.

From Hilton's perspective, the partnership offers an ideal venue for enabling hotels to contribute actively and visibly to their communities and, by example, to inspire tomorrow's leaders to take pride in the work they do.

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School Garden Education Program

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