Speaking of STEM, it is a big part of Greener Planet STEM School Gardens and Hydroponics program now in 250 CCSD schools and more than 1,300 other schools spanning, listen to this, 44 states and 5 countries.

Now, the seed of an idea was planted right here in Southern Nevada, and, boy, has it grown and flourished.

Now, I recently met up with one of the organization's cofounders at Sunrise Mountain High School and got to see firsthand the great work they are doing in our schools.

Check it out.

♪♪ (Robert Evans) Grab the plant by the base and push up on the bottom, and get as much of the dirt and the roots out as you can.

-Inside Mr.

Evans' Botany class, members of Sunrise Mountain High School's Garden Club have become quite the experts when it comes to hydroponics.

(a student) We have to flip that way?

-Let's see.

Yeah, we probably want it the other way.

The hydroponics is great, because indoor hydroponics is going to use 99% less water than an outdoor crop would.

So in an arid environment like Nevada, hydroponics is really the future of agriculture.

And the indoor vertical farming, you don't need so much real estate to produce more plants.

So that's what we have in the stands here.

We can grow them on top of each other and get more plants per cubic foot.

-The Garden Club, getting ready for the nation's largest student-run farmers market.

(Ciara Byrne) Are you all going to the farmers market?

-Yeah, this is the farmers market squad.

-This farmers market squad will join more than 600 CCSD students at Greener Planet's Giant Student Farmers Market on Earth Day.

-For me, the farmers market is about joy.

It's joy in students being able to be like business operators for the first time and realizing that they have so much potential.

And I'm hoping that, you know, some day in 10 years or even longer, we'll be able to look back and say, Oh, wow, look at these amazing entrepreneurs in Nevada.

They came out of the farmers market.

And how awesome would that be?

-Some of these "farm-preneurs" are no strangers to taking part in the farmers market... (Aether Laureano) For us to sell them later on at the farmers market, it's like, wow.

Like, really, we're actually like doing this?

I feel like it's a little surreal to, you know, like, sell plants that you actually like, you grew, yeah, you planted.

-And they've been hard at work getting their fresh produce ready.

(a student) That's an eggplant, or is that zucchini?

-Yep, that's the eggplant.

These are, these are eggplant, eggplant, zucchini, zucchini.

-...both inside the hydroponics laboratory and... -To the garden!

(Jabron Jones) I think it's fun getting in the dirt, enjoying the hands-on activities.

I think it's a very growing and important part about being a gardener.

-No doubt they all have a green thumb.

-I feel like a lot of people think gardening is so easy and stuff.

But I feel like when you actually do it, it takes a lot of, like, patience and responsibility, because you got to be consistent with everything.

-And what they're growing and harvesting might surprise you.

-Another thing that we've harvested is almonds.

They're green at first, but they turn brown throughout the process of it ripening, and that's when we know when it's ready to harvest.

-This beautiful partnership with Green Our Planet started 10 years ago and continues to grow and flourish.

The organization's hope, to inspire the next generation of scientists, farmers, nutritionists, entrepreneurs, and conservationists.

-This has become one of, like, my passions and stuff.

And it's like something that I would enjoy doing and enjoy doing as a job as well.

(a student) Yeah, there's a lot.

They're all there.

-So impressed by what these farm-preneurs are doing.

And thank you to, of course, all the wonderful teachers, farmers, and our friends at Green Our Planet for all that you do to help.