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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Envirothon 2010: Students Ready to Compete for Green
  • Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:58:07 -0700



Envirothon 2010: Students Ready to Compete for Green
By Rachel Cernansky
Thu Feb 25, 2010 09:00 AM ET

Did you focus on urban planning for groundwater protection in high
school? A national competition in April will see kids doing just that.

About 190 New York City students are busy right now preparing for the annual
Envirothon, a national competition for high schoolers that tests participants
in five categories: Aquatics, Forestry, Soils, Wildlife and a Current Events
category, which this year is "Protections of Groundwater Through Urban,
Agricultural, and Environmental Planning."

This year's New York Envirothon will be held in Astoria Park, Queens on April
23, and has more teams registered than usual—38 teams total with three to
five students each—an exciting turnout for a competition that demands some
real effort by participating students to study and research the environmental
issues covered by the Envirothon.

In addition to a written test, there is a sixth category dedicated to
problem-solving: an environmental dispute related to the current events issue
(this year, groundwater protection) is assigned in advance and team members
(each representing a different constituency) must make an oral presentation
to a panel of judges to defend their position, either support or dissent, on
the issue.

In past years, the Envirothon has covered a range of topics that translate
well to real-life situations: greenways, pesticides, watersheds, wildfire
management, wetlands, and alternative and renewable energy—and the
problem-solving category has been packed with challenges that have the
potential to teach kids practical, real-life lessons:

a hypothetical development proposal in the NYC watersheds, allocation of the
burden of cleaning up "Ranger Lake," a (mythical) upstate waterbody that is
dying of too much phosphorus, and the problem focused on environmental
justice issues surrounding municipal solid waste disposal in the city of "New
Gotham."

Winning teams will be selected from each of the five New York City boroughs,
and will then proceed to the state-level competition, usually held in late
May—stay tuned to see who becomes New York's bright young green superstars.





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