Hillside New Tech High School was recently awarded a Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam to create a residential green roofing system.

The school is one of only 15 high schools nationwide to be selected as an InvenTeam recipient and the first school in the state selected in the program's eight-year history.

InvenTeams are teams of high school students, teachers and mentors who receive grants to invent technological solutions to real world problems.

Hillside New Tech, the small engineering-focused high school within Hillside High, received $7,000 for a project that will allow plants to grow on sloped roofs, reducing storm water runoff and providing natural shade to homes.