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Pictured, from left, are Centre County Commissioners Steven Dershem and Amber Concepcion, State Representative Paul Takac, Alyssa Hopkins, Grady Garrison, Myken Poorman, Logan Rarrick, Mary Dickman, Taryn Wagner and Senator Cris Dush.
HOWARD — The Centre County Conservation District held its 39th annual Envirothon competition for local high school students on Thursday, April 25, at Bald Eagle State Park.
The Envirothon is an outdoor environmental education competition for high school students. Five-member teams take a comprehensive exam as they rotate through a circuit of five stations. The five testing stations in the 2024 competition were: Aquatic Ecology, Forestry, Soils and Land Use, Wildlife and Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Future.
Six high school teams from Bald Eagle, Bellefonte, Penns Valley and St. Joseph’s
participated in the Envirothon. The winning team was from Bellefonte High School, earning
a total of 358 points. The winning team members are Taryn Wagner, Mary Dickman, Logan
Rarrick, Alyssa Hopkins and Grady Garrison. Faculty advisors for the team are Myken Poorman and Dan Sharp. The team will be competing in the Pennsylvania Envirothon, which will be held on May 22, 2024 at Camp Mount Luther in Mifflinburg, Pa.
Helping with the Envirothon were representatives from the PA Game Commission, PA
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Forestry, United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Centre County Conservation District. Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center also joined the Centre County Envirothon this year, where they taught the students about native species and showed them how to make seed balls.
Source: Bellefonte Area High School wins Envirothon Competition
