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"We could really tell the ECOS students are learning a lot when we heard comments about 'non-point source pollution' and 'turbidity' without any prompting."
- Josh Vincent, Black and Veatch

Environmental Connection Opportunities for Students (ECOS)
ECOS is a year-long after school program that includes classroom instruction and experiments, hands-on projects, guest speakers, science journals, field trips and service learning opportunities. The curriculum focuses on Kansas City's most pressing environmental problems including the combined sewer system, our declining urban forest, ozone levels, and solid waste and recycling. 

Select students receive assistance with internships and employment.
Click here to learn more about internships.

ECOS moving to the Brush Creek Community Center
In this our third year, we are excited to be partnering with the City of Kansas City, Missouri to offer ECOS at the Brush Creek Community Center and serve students in the Green Impact Zone. The Zone, an idea initiated by Congressman Cleaver, will concentrate a majority of stimulus funding into a 150 block area of need. Click here to read more about the Zone.

ECOS Curriculum Enhancements - more math, money skills and character development
We are adding foundational algebra and geometry to the ECOS curriculum this year along with money skills and financial simulations. We are also incorporating character building sessions to help our students prepare for life after high school.

Program Evaluation by Connie Campbell, Ph.D.

In the end, we will conserve only what we love.
We will love only what we understand.
We will understand only what we are taught. - Baba Dioum

Non-Discrimination
Green Works in Kansas City is committed to providing high-quality educational opportunities to qualified students regardless of economic or social status. Green Works will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation or physical disability.