#GreenClub at Jose Marti MAST 6-12 enhancing our #pinerockland corner of the arboretum after school today! Quite the difference in the before & after pics! 😃🌿#mast2425 Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. Fairchild Garden MDCPSustainability M-DCPS STEAM Dr. Dawn M. Baglos Florida Native Plant Society Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society Jennifer Possley

My Jose Marti MAST 6-12 #APStatistics students presented their authentic germination research on Caesalpinia bonduc and Tetrazygia bicolor last night at the November meeting of the Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society! 😃🌿#mast2425 Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. M-DCPS STEAM MDCPSustainability Dr. Dawn M. Baglos Nestor E. Marcia MDCPS JOSE MARTI MAST PTSA

Students from Bensheppardelementar learning during activities in our arboretum during a field trip to the STEAM Environmental Center at Jose Marti MAST 6-12! 😃🌿 #mast2425 Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. Yesenia Aponte M-DCPS STEAM MDCPSustainability STE(A)M School Designation Wendy Forteza Family and Community Engagement at M-DCPS Dr. Dawn M. Baglos

Students at Jose Marti MAST 6-12 placing red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) propagules in cups on our wall as part of our Xavier Cortada Eco-Art courtyard! Art + Science = Learning 😃🌿#mast2425 Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. Yesenia Aponte M-DCPS STEAM Wendy Forteza MDCPSustainability Dr. Dawn M. Baglos Nestor E. Marcia MDCPS

#Botany students and #GreenClub leaders from Jose Marti MAST 6-12 enjoyed a #DadeHeritage field trip to Miami Parks #SimpsonPark, the lone old growth remnant of the historic tropical rockland Brickell Hammock! 😃🌿#mast2425 Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. MDCPSustainability M-DCPS STEAM Nestor E. Marcia MDCPS Miami-Dade Schools

In our Jose Marti MAST 6-12 orchid propagation lab, a #GreenClub member & #APStatistics student spreads Encyclia tampensis (butterfly orchid) seeds on media in sterile conditions! 😃🌿#mast2425 Fairchild Garden MDCPSustainability MillionOrchidProject M-DCPS STEAM Nestor E. Marcia MDCPS Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D.

Students from Spanish Lake Elem learning about native flora & fauna in our native arboretum during a field trip to the STEAM Environmental Center at Jose Marti MAST 6-12! 😃🌿 #mast2425 Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. M-DCPS STEAM Dr. Dawn M. Baglos MDCPSustainability Nestor E. Marcia MDCPS Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society Florida Native Plant Society

The #GreenClub at Jose Marti MAST 6-12 at their last meeting of 2024 this week, planning for #EarthDay2025 and taking our yearbook picture! 😃🌿 #mast2425 Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. MDCPSustainability M-DCPS STEAM Dr. Dawn M. Baglos Xavier Cortada Nestor E. Marcia MDCPS Family and Community Engagement at M-DCPS M-DCPS North Region JOSE MARTI MAST PTSA

Harrisia fragrans (Fragrant pricklyapple cactus or Caribbean applecactus), an endangered South Florida endemic, growing well in our Jose Marti MAST 6-12 shadehouse, propagated in germination experiments by my #APStatistics students!😃🌿 Fairchild Garden Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society MDCPSustainability

What can be done in a 50-minute class before a holiday event on the last day before winter break? My #botany students at Jose Marti MAST 6-12 repotted sixty Croton linearis (pineland croton) seedlings! 😃🌿#mast2425 Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. MDCPSustainability M-DCPS STEAM Dr. Dawn M. Baglos Fairchild Garden

Inflorescences of potted native Bletia purpurea (pine pink orchids) placed by #botany students into the pine rockland section of the Jose Marti MAST 6-12 native arboretum for improved pollination! 😃🌿#mast2425 Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. Fairchild Garden Orchid STEMLab Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society MDCPSustainability M-DCPS STEAM

Students from Spanish Lake Elem learning in the Jose Marti MAST 6-12 native arboretum on a field trip to the STEAM Environmental Center at Jose Marti MAST! 😃🌿 #mast2425 Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. M-DCPS STEAM MDCPSustainability Family and Community Engagement at M-DCPS Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society Florida Native Plant Society Fairchild Garden Jennifer Possley

Participatory art is hard work! Students refill water in cups for the Xavier Cortada Reclamation Project at the Eco-Art Courtyard at Jose Marti MAST 6-12! 😃🌿#mast2425 Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. Dr. Dawn M. Baglos M-DCPS STEAM MDCPSustainability Family and Community Engagement at M-DCPS Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society M-DCPS North Region Nestor E. Marcia MDCPS JOSE MARTI MAST PTSA

#Botany students at Jose Marti MAST 6-12 sort endangered Tillandsia utriculata (giant airplant) individuals into small, medium & large sizes for research with National Tropical Botanical Garden at Kampong, New York Botanical Garden, Colorado College & Rhodes College. 😃🌿 #mast2425 Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. MDCPSustainability M-DCPS STEAM Dr. Dawn M. Baglos

We love to see the enthusiasm of #botany students at our garden The Kampong in Miami, Florida.

De-flasking native Calopogon tuberosa (grass pink orchids) in the Jose Marti MAST 6-12 orchid propagation lab. Thank you to Fairchild Garden’s MillionOrchidProject for trusting our students with these native orchids! 😃🌿#mast2425 Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. MDCPSustainability M-DCPS STEAM Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society Florida Native Plant Society

First blooms of the year for Bletia purpurea (pine pink orchids) in the native arboretum at Jose Marti MAST 6-12! 😃🌿 #mast2425 Fairchild Garden Orchid STEMLab MillionOrchidProject @flawildflowers Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society Florida Native Plant Society MDCPSustainability Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. M-DCPS STEAM Nestor E. Marcia MDCPS

Volunteers from Jose Marti MAST 6-12 at the 16th Annual RelayForLife Mini-Golf fundraiser at AllGolf at CB Smith supporting American Cancer Society! Thank you to all these members of JMMAST_NHS for their hard work! 😃🌿💜 Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. MDCPSustainability Family and Community Engagement at M-DCPS Dr. Dawn M. Baglos RFL Pines/Miramar

#Botany students at Jose Marti MAST 6-12 select control & experimental groups of Tillandsia utriculata, then gather & record measures for collaborative work with National Tropical Botanical Garden at #Kampong, New York Botanical Garden, Colorado College & Rhodes College! 😃🌿 #mast2425 Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. MDCPSustainability M-DCPS STEAM Dr. Dawn M. Baglos

Grade 9 Research 1 students at Jose Marti MAST 6-12 investigate Steve Holden.official on their @collegeboard accounts to identify potential careers they may wish to investigate! 😃🌿 #mast2425 Jose L. Dotres, Ed.D. M-DCPS STEAM JOSE MARTI MAST PTSA Family and Community Engagement at M-DCPS MDCPSustainability M-DCPS Career & Technical Education