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The Indiana Envirothon promotes environmental education to high school aged students. The goal is to raise awareness of the importance of achieving and maintaining a natural balance between the quality of life and of the environment.
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HOW DOES IT WORK?
In-class curriculum is combined with hands-on field experiences to demonstrate the role people have in important environmental issues. Envirothon is an exciting, fun way for high school students to learn about the environment and the issues facing current and future generations. Envirothon builds awareness. It helps show tomorrow’s leaders the positive and negative effects individual actions have on the environment. Youth who take part understand differences between renewable and nonrenewable resources, understand environmental interactions and interdependencies, and know who provides information that can be used in the future for their benefit. Students have fun while becoming environmentally aware during the competition! Teams of five students (grades 9-12), representing a school or organization, compete at Indiana Envirothon contests by answering questions and by studying resource problems in each of the five environmental areas which include: soils/land use, aquatic ecology, wildlife, forestry, and a current environmental issue. Students begin training for Envirothon by studying the resource materials that cover each natural resource area and those objectives related to them. Natural resource professionals provide presentations to the students sharing job experiences and information on the resource areas. Students will participate in a modified version of our Regional Contests to compete at the State level. Teams are tested in the five resource areas. This year, the top ten teams will be invited to provide an oral presentation covering their solution to the current environmental issue. The State competition combines the scores from both the written and oral component to declare a state winner. The top team from the Indiana State Envirothon Competition will represent Indiana in the National Conservation Foundation (NCF) Envirothon Contest. The NCF-Envirothon is a multi-day event. Typically, over 50 participating teams from the U.S., Canada, and China merge the knowledge from their home state/provincial contests with hands-on teaching stations during a six day competition. Written tests and oral presentations are again part of the contest. |
