9 Minutes with 9-Year-Old Kedar on How to Save Pollinators — Episode 012

NRPA has always been a champion for pollinators, but in the past
few years as bee and monarch populations have seen scary rates of
decline, we’ve stepped up our involvement in helping to save
pollinators — not only through local parks and recreation, but at
our headquarters and through promoting ways we all can play a
small part in saving these critical critters.


(You can check out our Pollination Across the Nation poster
here.)


As part of this pursuit, we support the Million Pollinator Garden
Challenge, which is closing in on its goal and now counts over
600,000 pollinator gardens in every area of the U.S.


NRPA is also a member of the National Pollinator Garden Network
(NPGN), a nation-wide non-profit coalition to fight the decline
of pollinator species across the nation. At their recent annual
meeting, NRPA’s VP for Strategic Initiatives (and previous
contributor to Open Space Radio), Rich Dolesh, heard Kedar
Narayan, age 9, tell his amazing story of how he developed an app
and a board game to bring awareness to the decline of pollinators
and ways that kids and their families could help.
 
After hearing Rich’s rave reviews on Kedar, we knew we had to
chat with him on Open Space Radio. Luckily Kedar (with permission
from his mother Anita — his teacher and fellow coder), agreed to
tell us all about his app and love of pollinators. 


Download Kedar’s App

App Tutorial

Visit Kedar’s Website

Fox 29 News Story on Kedar

The Morning Call News Story on the Pollinator for a Pet App



Photos courtesy of Anita Narayan. Top photo: Kedar presenting his
art work to Cindy Brown of Smithsonian Gardens. Lower photos:
Other art work he has created for a local nature art show in his
hometown.