COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Lisa Snider, District Manager / Community Outreach Coordinator
Fort Jackson Building, Mezzanine
19 South Washington Street, Waynesburg, PA 15370
Phone: 724-852-5278 / Fax: 724-852-5341
Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday - Friday
TOPICS OF INTERESTS:
PENNSYLVANIA ENVIROTHON CHALLENGE:
Envirothon is a fun, academic event. It challenges high school students to think critically about the natural world and their role in it. Envirothon combines in-class curriculum and outdoor training helping students to learn more about Aquatic Ecology, Forestry, Soil & Land Use, Wildlife, and Current Environmental Issues.
- Senior Envirothons — This is a fun, academic event where high school students compete in environmental topics. It is the only one in the nation that challenges students to think critically about the natural world and their role in it. The teens who participate in these events will develop the necessary skills to face the adult problems of finding a balance between economic development and preservation and conservation of our natural resources.
- Junior Envirothons — The Junior Envirothon is very similar to the Senior Envirothon and is for students in 6th through 8th grades. This event gives middle school students the opportunity to work together in teams, gain environmental literacy, problem solve, and meet students from other Greene County School Districts.
Click here for more about Pennsylvania Environthon, it's mission, program goals, objectives, rules and regulations.
2010 GREENE COUNTY ENVIROTHON:
May 12, 2010 will mark the 23rd annual Greene County Envirothon, an environmental challenge of knowledge\between the five area school districts — and Charmichaels Area High School took first, second and third place. Thus Carmichaels will represent Greene County at the Pennsylvania Stata Environthon next week at the PPR Montour Preserve at Danville in Montour County, PA. The winning team of the state Environthon will advance to the Canon Environthon in August at Fresno, California State University.
Eleven teams representing Carmichaels Area, Jefferson-Morgan, Mapletown and Waynesburg Central high schools participated in the all-day event. Envirothon educates students in natural resources and environmental sciences.
Bringing the Lab to Carmichaels — Josh Kelly, assistant environmental scientist/taxonomist of Wallace and Pancher Inc., Hermitage, recently spoke to more than 50 middle school and high school students at Carmichaels Area High School about careers in environmental fields. Click here for news article.
2009 GREENE COUNTY ENVIROTHON:
2009 Environthon consisted of a total of fourteen teams participating — an environmental challenge of knowledge between the five area school districts. Held at Ryerson State Park on April 23, 2009 and consisted of five stations that test the teams on their knowledge of environmental issues and test students on habitat, management principles and identification in each topic. The five topis this year were: Aquatics, Wildlife, Soils and Land Use, Forestry, and the special topic: "Biodiversity in a Changing World".
This year's Environthon was funded through the Community Foundation of Greene County's Pennsylvania Education Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program. This year the Conservation District was able to secrue funds to award the competition winners each with a $500 college scholarship for each team member.
2009 CONSERVATION LEADERSHIP SCHOOL:
Scholarship Winner — Samantha May, a student at Carmichaels Area High School, is the winner of the Conservation Leadership Scholarship. This scholarship was made possible by contribtuions from PA Services Corporation an affiliate of Foundation Coal. In 2008, Samantha was on the third place team at the Annual Envirothon Competition.
2008 GREENE COUNTY ENVIROTHON:
2008 Environthon consisted of a total of fourteen teams participating in the Envirothon, held at Ryerson State Park on May 8, 2008. This contest consists of 5 stations that test the teams on their knowledge of environmental issues and test students on habitat, management principles and identification in each topic.
The 5 topics this year were: Aquatics, Wildlife, Soils and Land Use, Forestry, and the special topic: "Recreational Impacts on the Environment". The competition consists of various means of testing the student’s knowledge and understanding of their environment.
Carmichaels Team 1- Katrina Lawrence, Lindsay Triola, Ethan Virgili, Jonathan Zack and Joesph Lapkowicz and their advisor Kevin Willis took 1st place this year at the county competition and now will move on to the state competition. Carmichaels team 1 won the competition with 405 out of 500 point’s total.
The 25th Pennsylvania State Envirothon will take place on May 19 and 20 at the Pennsylvania State University, Centre County. Sixty-five teams of high school students are expected to compete at this year’s event.
This year’s Envirothon was sponsored by a grant received from the Community Foundation of Greene County PA which was funded by Consol Energy. The event is organized each year by the Greene County Conservation District. This year the Conservation District was able to secure funds to award the competition winners each with a college scholarship of $500 to each team member.
The Conservation District would like to thank Foundation Coal for their donation to make this scholarship possible for the students.
The Greene County Conservation District would like to thank everyone who participated and made this a successful event and "Good Luck" to the team as they advance to the state competition.
Participants were as follows:
- USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Susan Funka-Petery Department of Retired employee of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Forestry, Bill Wentzell
- Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, Tom Crist, WCO
- Pennsylvania Game Commission, Rodney Burns, WCO - Randy Crago and Joe Stefko
- Department of Environmental Protection, Chuck Kubasik
- Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of State Parks, Ryerson Station State Park, Alan Johnson and staff.
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