Mater Amoris participates in numerous initiatives to beautify and protect our world, particularly through partnerships. As a Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE) Green School, Mater Amoris connects students to nature and encourages them to become stewards of the natural environment. You’ve probably heard about our beautiful campus, but did you know how beneficial it is to wildlife? Mater Amoris is a certified Monarch Waystation through Monarch Watch and a National Wildlife Federation Certified Schoolyard Habitat, both of which are awarded based on the high quality of our property as a habitat for native wildlife. Chesapeake Bay Trust is another vital community partner, providing opportunities for field trips as well as funding for replacing the driveway with permeable pavers. The first half of this water quality improvement project was completed in 2024, with hopes to finish the second half in the near future. 

Each day, students are exposed to results of community engagement sustainability initiatives on campus. Through the NexTrex Recycling Program, community members recycle their flimsy plastics at the school to be turned into TREX decking materials. As participants in the BGE EmPOWER Maryland program, Mater Amoris works to teach students to be as energy efficient as possible, and provides the community with tools and resources to help them move toward that goal. The National Aquarium’s Terrapins in the Classroom program has given our students a direct connection to sustainability and conservation, connecting them with a particular terrapin that they raise all year before helping to release it on Poplar Island to help support the wild population. Our adolescent students have even begun their own sustainability focused program, placing compost bins in each classroom and utilizing the resulting compost in their class garden. To learn more about these programs and many more, visit our campus. We would love to have you!