A high school student founds a nonprofit to help honeybees.
Abby Gordon got the idea for Project Honey Bee after watching a documentary about the insects’ impending extinction. “I’ve always been interested in helping the environment,” says Gordon, a 15-year-old Minnetonka high school sophomore. “When I saw how intertwined honeybees are with our economy and our food supply, it became a really interesting topic.”
Since founding the nonprofit in 2011, Gordon has reached out to groups such as the University of Minnesota Bee Lab and the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum to raise awareness about honeybees and how to help them.
After graduation, Gordon plans to grow her organization to a statewide, or even national, program—on top of going to college. projecthoneybee.org
