Jesse Higginbotham Technology Trust

Jesse Higginbotham Technology Trust In honor of all that he aspired to do, the Jesse Higginbotham Technology Trust was established to co Jesse was working on this project prior to his accident.

Our projects include:

The Dunbar Memorial Garden - http://www.jessehigginbotham.com/garden.html
The Dunbar Memorial Garden is located on the campus of Jesse's high school and was originally planned as a way for students to honor the lives of classmates they had lost. The MindTriggerz Project - http://www.jessehigginbotham.com/mindtriggerz.html
The Mindtriggerz Project refurbishes donated computer

s and components, installs educational software and then places them in the homes of children in our area who could not otherwise afford them. Adopt-A-Highway
In honor of Jesse, a two-mile stretch of highway along the Versailles Road corridor has been "adopted" by the Jesse Higginbotham Technology Trust through the Kentucky Department of Transportation's "Adopt-A-Highway" program.

07/11/2024
Careers in the sciences often start with childhood experiences!  Monarch butterflies provide interesting and beautiful i...
11/12/2018

Careers in the sciences often start with childhood experiences! Monarch butterflies provide interesting and beautiful introductions to biology (the study of life), entomology (the study of insects), and lepidopterology (the study of butterflies and moths). Watch this video of Jesse's dad Jerome Higginbotham providing kindergarten students with a fun lesson on Monarchs with an up-close view of a newly emerged Monarch Butterfly.
The Monarch chrysalis was donated to the school by the Jesse Higginbotham Technology Trust 😍🦋🦋🦋

Kindergarten students get an up-close view of a newly emerged Monarch Butterfly. The Monarch chrysalis was donated to the school by the Jesse Higginbotham Te...

It's a dreary day in more ways than one!  What a good opportunity to talk about some of the wonderful long-term projects...
11/07/2018

It's a dreary day in more ways than one! What a good opportunity to talk about some of the wonderful long-term projects JHTT has been working on to lift some spirits!

In the fall of 2014, we created a native plant garden at Jesse's elementary school, Cardinal Valley Elementary and named it the "Peace Art Garden." Then In the fall of 2016, we added a variety of Milkweed plants and certified it as a Monarch Waystation.
All the native plants in the Peace Art Garden were propagated at the Dunbar Memorial Garden, an all native plant garden we created in 2007 that is located on the campus of Jesse's high school, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School.

This year, in the summer of 2018 the Science teacher at Cardinal Valley Elementary discovered EIGHT chrysalises (chysalides) that had been formed along the concrete windowsills that edge one side of the garden. Having never seen so many "in the wild" we were excited to capture video of this remarkable occurrence!

Read more about this project on our blog: http://jessehigginbotham.com/blog/peace-art-garden-at-cardinal-valley-elementary-a-danaus-plexippus-success-story/

And check out this guided video tour of the CVE garden!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM1BXoHP_Lw&t=13s

The worker bees at JHTT spent a lovely afternoon cutting up recycled paper bags to make into seed packets!  Fall is the ...
10/18/2018

The worker bees at JHTT spent a lovely afternoon cutting up recycled paper bags to make into seed packets! Fall is the best time for planting seeds for many native plants. All Little Yellow Bird Studio seeds come from our neighborhood and school gardens. You can purchase wedding favors and other assorted goodies at https://www.amazon.com/handmade/LittleYellowBirdStudio. 100% of proceeds fund garden maintenance, scholarships, and helping meet other community needs.

Thanks to all the wonderful folks who came out to support us yesterday by purchasing plants or just coming by to say Hi!...
05/13/2018

Thanks to all the wonderful folks who came out to support us yesterday by purchasing plants or just coming by to say Hi! Thanks too to the many hard-working volunteers who handled cashier duties and helped set up, break down and carry plants for our shoppers. Funds raised will be used for next years’ Dunbar scholarship in Jesse’s name

05/11/2018

A guaranteed way to bring Monarch butterflies to your garden? Plant Native Milkweed! We’ll have several varieties available at our 9th Native Plant Sale on Saturday, May 12th from 10am to 1pm.

05/10/2018

One of the easiest ways to help save the bees is to stop using chemicals in the garden. Growing native flowers, trees and shrubs is the 2nd easiest – they require no pesticides, herbicides or chemical fertilizers and are the perfect food source for our native pollinators. A few of their favorites: Purple Bee Balm (Bergamot), Blue Sage, Coreopsis, Compass plant, and of course Sunflowers! All available at our Native Plant Sale on Saturday, May 12th

A great big extra-large hugemongous shout-out of thanks to the Trusts own Director of Community and Social Services Joyc...
05/09/2018

A great big extra-large hugemongous shout-out of thanks to the Trusts own Director of Community and Social Services Joyce Crawford who let us know of the Privett Recovery Center’s need for plants, seeds, supplies and raised beds! We are glad to help them gear up for gardening this summer

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05/07/2018

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Here are just a few of the ways your purchase at our Native Plant Sale helps the community: an annual $1,500 need-based ...
05/07/2018

Here are just a few of the ways your purchase at our Native Plant Sale helps the community: an annual $1,500 need-based college scholarship to a Dunbar senior, new garden supplies and equipment for the Privett Recovery Center, the installation of a Monarch Waystation at the Women’s Hope Center, free educational classes at Village Branch Library and of course, the continued care and maintenance of our “labor of love” the Dunbar Memorial Garden.

Whether you’re starting your first butterfly garden, looking for a plant that will thrive in a “trouble” spot in your ya...
05/06/2018

Whether you’re starting your first butterfly garden, looking for a plant that will thrive in a “trouble” spot in your yard or adding native plants to help save the bees, we’ve got something for everybody. And proceeds go to a great cause! Rain or shine our 9th annual Native Plant Sale is next Saturday from 10am to 1pm at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School

Mark your calendars! Our 9th Native Plant Sale will be held on Saturday May 12th at Dunbar High School. Proceeds from th...
04/12/2018

Mark your calendars! Our 9th Native Plant Sale will be held on Saturday May 12th at Dunbar High School. Proceeds from the sale benefit the Jesse Higginbotham Technology Scholarship Fund, the Mindtriggerz Project, the Dunbar Memorial Garden and our work in the Lexington community in Jesse’s honor

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Lexington, KY
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