Education

As an organization dedicated to empowering people, education is a critical component of that mission. Levo works with people from all backgrounds, ages, and abilities to provide them with the tools they need to strengthen the world around them. Levo builds programming around our partner’s needs, focusing on hands-on learning. Below are the many programs that Levo has run with dozens of community partners over the last three years.

Groton Public Schools:

Levo has been working with the Groton Public Schools Food Service Department since 2022. Since then, Levo has installed hydroponics throughout their schools and supported their educational programming.

Levo has installed hydroponics in the cafeteria of Fitch High School for students to pick their salad from, run experimental design classes with AP bio students, and in 2025 installed and opened a hydroponic shipping container farm capable of growing over 2000 heads of lettuce at a time.

CREC Impact Academy: 

CREC Impact Academy exists to re-engage students who have lost their desire for education. Levo’s approach has fit well into CREC’s 6-week module model. Levo has focused on the hands-on learning component. Impact students have helped design and build hydroponic systems in their community, from the rooftop of Hartford Hospital to vacant lots in Hartford to their classrooms. Students have left classes with Levo with real skills, some of which are as simple as how to use a drill. Levo actively recruits students from these classes and has hired several students since beginning with Impact in 2023.  

 

ACES Regions:  

Based on Levo’s success with Impact Academy, ACES and Levo are launching a series of hydroponic modules designed to teach ACES students hard skills, particularly in carpentry and urban farming. This program will reach students in the criminal justice system and will take place in Plainville, Hamden, and Hartford.  

Other School Partners:

  • Project Marcos Sanchez 

  • Enfield Montessori  

  • Fairfield Prep  

  • Northwest Catholic  

  • Academy of International Studies  

  • Kingswood Oxford

  • Classical Magnet