Five seniors from Hempfield High School along with Lee Hawley, teacher adviser, represented Lancaster County at the Pennsylvania Envirothon, held on May 21 and 22. The team won third place.
Team members Bronwyn Meldrum, William Yaeger, Nebeyu Bekere, Sandy Heilshorn, and Jessica Miller put in hours of independent study and worked together as a team to demonstrate their collective knowledge of the natural world at the two-day event. The Envirothon tests teams' knowledge of natural resource. Topics include aquatics, forestry, soils, wildlife, and a current environmental issue.
Each Hempfield student has been participating in the Lancaster County Senior High Envirothon, an academic event, throughout his or her high school years. As the first-place team at the county level, the group went on to the State Envirothon held at University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. The Pennsylvania Envirothon awarded scholarships to students on the top five teams.
The Lancaster County Senior High Envirothon is an academic contest facilitated by the Lancaster County Conservation District and cooperating county and state agencies. The Pennsylvania Envirothon competition is part of the international NCF Envirothon, an environmental education program that involves high school students from the United States, Canada, and China. University scholarships are part of the state and international Envirothons.
The Lancaster County Envirothon programs includes opportunities for student participation at the Junior Envirothon for third grade through sixth grade, the Middle School Envirothon for seventh and eighth grades, and the Senior High Envirothon for ninth to 12th grades.
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