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STEM Turnkey
An ESA Organics Company
STEM Turnkey · An ESA Organics Company

The only high-school STEM program that empowers students to feed their entire campus.

Integrate advanced engineering, coding, and data science into a living, fully automated vertical farming lab that yields enough fresh, organic produce to serve every student daily.

45,000
vegetable servings / school year
$500K
available per USDA grant
95%
less water vs field farming
0
pesticides. ever.
The dual-value proposition

Academic innovation meets campus wellness.

Most STEM programs stop at the classroom door. Ours extends directly into your school cafeteria. We provide high schools with a turnkey, commercial-grade Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) system bundled with a robust, multi-disciplinary curriculum.

For your educators
Plug-and-play curriculum

A plug-and-play, standard-aligned curriculum spanning Systems Engineering, Python Coding, Analytical Chemistry, and Sustainable Design.

For your kitchen staff
Zero-prep, zero-pesticide harvest

Zero-prep, soil-less, pest-free leafy greens harvested across the hallway and served the same day — completely bypassing volatile commercial supply chains.

For your students
High-wage workforce training

Immersive workforce training with Raspberry Pi microcontrollers, sensors, and automation hardware that translates directly into high-wage modern AgTech careers.

System-to-Student Matrix

Scaled perfectly to your student body.

Our modular vertical farming technology stacks growth layers vertically, allowing massive agricultural yields within a highly compact physical campus footprint. Pick your enrollment to see what fits.

~48–54 towers
Daily servings
250
servings/day
Weekly yield
156
lbs/week
Vertical towers
48–54
modular units
Floor footprint
420–450
sq. ft.
Best fit
Dedicated AgTech lab room
Continuous harvest

Staggered planting cycles mean fresh deliveries every single school day — never a feast-or-famine pattern.

Start small, scale up

Begin with a 12-tower pilot for one biology class. Add towers to the same automated loop over 2–3 years.

What’s included per module

Student pathways, automated nutrient reservoir, Raspberry Pi hub, and full-spectrum vertical LED arrays.

System-to-Student matrix — vertical farming tower count and yield per student enrollment tier.
EnrollmentDaily servingsWeekly yieldTowers
100 students100 servings/day~62.5 lbs/week18–22
250 students250 servings/day~156 lbs/week48–54
500 students500 servings/day~310 lbs/week96–102
700 students700 servings/day~437 lbs/week138–144
1,000 students1,000 servings/day~625 lbs/week204–210
Institutional prestige & parental appeal

A signature feature for your campus admissions tour.

For competitive public districts and independent private academies, the modern family demands more than traditional textbooks. They seek environments committed to forward-thinking technology and student wellness.

  • A visible symbol of innovation

    Sleek, full-spectrum LED vertical arrays turn your campus into a green-energy tech powerhouse — a high-impact showpiece for prospective parents and community stakeholders during school tours.

  • Tangible commitment to health

    Show parents exactly where their children’s lunches come from. Boost focus, cognitive performance, and energy with greens harvested hours prior — not weeks prior in a distant warehouse.

  • Student leadership in action

    An elite project pipeline for college applications: students manage, code, and operate a true closed-loop circular economy system.

The funding playbook

Scarce resources? We help you secure 100% external funding.

A standard institutional implementation represents a comprehensive $140,000 infrastructure investment. However, budget constraints should never stand in the way of innovation. We specialize in helping schools leverage specialized federal, state, and private grants so this program can be deployed at little-to-no cost to your general operating budget.

USDA Patrick Leahy Farm to School

Implementation Track
Up to $500,000

Non-profit private and public schools integrating local food production into the National School Lunch Program.

Specialty cropHyper-local foodFarm-to-cafeteriaZero-prep sterile harvest

Perkins V & State CTE Funds

State innovation allocations
Formula + competitive

Public school districts establishing workforce-readiness tracks in automation, robotics, and modern agricultural sciences.

Controlled Environment AgricultureMicrocontroller infrastructureIndustrial automation pathways

USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant Program

SCBGP
Variable, state-allocated

Projects focused on local food system resilience and advanced technical upgrades to regional education centers.

Local food resilienceTechnical upgradeSpecialty crops

Private STEM & Sustainability Foundations

Toshiba America Foundation, Captain Planet Foundation, more
Pilot funding

Funding early-stage pilot modules and student microcontroller stations.

STEM pilotSustainabilityHands-on technology

Includes boilerplate language, measurable objectives, USDA application cycle notes, and the master alignment matrix.

True financial sustainability

An infrastructure asset that pays for itself.

Because this system functions as a functional food utility, it behaves as a self-subsidizing asset. For a school unit of 250 students, the system generates over 45,000 fresh vegetable servings annually. By replacing a significant portion of your commercial food procurement budget with hyper-local campus yields, the system systematically offsets its initial installation cost while continually serving your student body.

~156 lbs
Weekly fresh leafy greens
for a 250-student system
1,250
Servings per week
5 days × 250 students
45,000
Servings per academic year
across a 180-day calendar
$140K
Standard infrastructure cost
fully grant-fundable
Interactive impact tools

Calculate Your Campus Impact.

See your projected savings and grant fit in 30 seconds — no email required.

250
502,000
$400
$100/wk$5,000/wk
Annual servings
45,000
250 servings/day × 180 school days
Annual produce savings
$14,560
8,125 lbs of fresh greens at $5/lb wholesale
Payback period
9.6 yrs
5-year net: -$67,200

5-year cumulative savings vs. install cost

Install cost: $140,000
install$14,560Yr 1$29,120Yr 2$43,680Yr 3$58,240Yr 4$72,800Yr 5

Savings model assumes leafy-greens replacement only at $5/lb wholesale, capped at 70% of current produce spend. Actual results vary by region, menu, and tower count. Yield curve based on the published System-to-Student Matrix (0.625 lbs/week per student above 100).

Initiate consultation

Bring advanced AgTech to your high school.

Ready to modernize your curriculum and revolutionize your campus lunch program? Complete the brief form below to receive your customized System-to-Student Campus Blueprint and grant eligibility review.

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