Ten members comprising two teams from the Newark High School Environmental Club competed April 17th in the Wayne County Envirothon held at the Montezuma Audubon Center in Savannah.
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The Envirothon is an annual competition in which teams compete by demonstrating their knowledge of environmental science and natural resource management. Teams, each consisting of five students from schools, exercise their training and problem-solving skills in a competition centered on five testing categories: Soil/Land Use, Aquatic Ecology, Forestry, Wildlife, and Current Environmental Issues.
This year it pertained to renewable energy. Students answered 25 questions at each of the five stations.
“It was the first time that Newark has ever sent teams to compete in Envirothon,” said Rebecca Yuhas, NHS Living Environment teacher and Environmental Club advisor.
Team members included: Jadon Kowaleski, Sierra George, Tessa Belliveau, Ethan Tonkinson, Brooklyn Graham, Mikalya Miller, Sophia Hasseler, Lindsay Wells, Ethan Coleman, and Luis Alonso Barbosa.
Newark's top placing team consisting of Kowaleski, George, Belliveau, Tonkinson and Graham came in 4th at the competition.
“The primary goal of the program is to learn about the natural environment we live in so as to become stewards of the land. Students competed against 12 other teams from Wayne County Schools,” Yuhas said. “I am very proud of all of the students for deciding to challenge themselves in this competition and for representing Newark Science in an awesome way! They brought their own interests in environmental science together and worked very hard.”
Yuhas also noted NHS Special Education teacher BillieJo Ross accompanied her at the event to help provide support for the students.