BATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge Green will certify University Laboratory School as a National Arbor Foundation Tree Campus after U-High students successfully grew and planted 13 cypress trees. 

The project, created by 11th-grade International Baccalaureate student Vaughn Meiners and his instructor Karen Holden, partnered the students with LSU Lakes Project leadership and Baton Rouge Green. Students participated in hands-on lessons and tree-planting events with local elementary students.

To cap off the initiative, students planted 13 cypress trees that they had grown from seedlings for four years. The trees were planted along the LSU Lakes.  

16 cypress trees were also planted near the Lod Cook Alumni Center on LSU's campus on Friday by the U-High science department.