Carmichaels wins envirothon; Mapletown second
Carmichaels Team No. 1 won this year’s Greene County Envirothon with a score of 439.5. The Envirothon is organized by the Greene County Conservation District and funded through the Community Foundation of Greene County. All winning team members will receive a $500 scholarship from Alpha Natural Resources. From left are Tom Headlee, GCCD board director; Michelle Anderson, Alpha Natural Resources; Jim Cowell, GCCD board director; team members Doug Kowalewski, Philip Mikalik, Tyler Crago and Emma Lowry; team adviser Kevin Willis; and team member Ashley Dotson.
Mapletown Team No.1 won second place at this year’s Greene County Envirothon, organized by the Greene County Conservation District. From left, are Tom Headlee and Jim Cowell, GCCD board directors; team members Ryan Kovach, Sara Hlatky, Ried Griffin, Katelyn Kelly and Eric Armel; and team advisers Amber Burkett and Sara London.
WIND RIDGE – Sixty-eight high school students from Greene County’s five school districts competed in the 27th annual Greene County Envirothon April 30 at Ryerson Station State Park in Wind Ridge.
Teams of five students tested their environmental knowledge in the areas of soils, forestry, wildlife, aquatics and the 2014 current issue, sustaining local agriculture and buying locally.
Carmichaels Team No. 1 won this year’s competition with a score of 439.5 points out of a possible 500 points. Team members Tyler Crago, Ashley Dotson, Doug Kowalewski, Emma Lowry and Philip Mikalik and team adviser Kevin Willis will represent Greene County at the state Envirothon May 20-21 at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove.
Mapletown Team No.1, consisting of students Eric Armel, Ried Griffin, Sara Hlatky, Katelyn Kelly and Ryan Kovach and advisers Amber Burkett and Sara London, earned second place with a score of 334.
The third-place team was Carmichaels Team No. 2, which included students Allie Christopher, Blake Conard, Taylor Dodson, Connor Spangler and Parker Woodring and adviser Willis. The team earned 318.5 points.
The Greene County Envirothon is organized each year by the Greene County Conservation District and is funded through a grant from the Community Foundation of Greene County’s Pennsylvania Education Improvement Tax Credit program through Consol Energy. Each student on the winning team secured a $500 college scholarship funded by Alpha Natural Resources.
In addition to the continued financial support of Community Foundation of Greene County, Consol Energy and Alpha Natural Resources, other partners that made the event successful include Greene County commissioners Chuck Morris, Archie Trader and Blair Zimmerman; Greene County Department of Economic Development; Chuck Shrump and Kevin Paul, U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service; Russ Gibbs, state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Bureau of Forestry; William Wentzel, Greene County Conservation District; Alan Johnson and staff, Ryerson Station State Park, DCNR Bureau of State Parks; Chuck Kubasik, state Department of Environmental Protection; Mike Greiner, state Game Commission; Kameron Schaefer, Waynesburg University; Lindsey Biddle Gilkes, University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute; and Michelle Anderson, Alpha Natural Resources.
For more information on the Greene County Envirothon, call the Greene County Conservation District at 724-852-5278.