Envirothon
Envirothon is a competitive learning event for high school-aged students. Envirothon tests the student's knowledge of environmental resources including soils, forestry, wildlife and current environmental issues. >>Check out the Indiana Envirothon program on Facebook.
How Envirothon works
Teams of five students, representing a school or organization, compete by answering questions and by studying resource problems in each of the five environmental areas.
Before the competition, students study, with their advisors, to develop a greater understanding the environment.
At the Envirothon competition, students test their knowledge under the supervision of environmental instructors. Students use teamwork to develop creative solutions to environmental problems.
The 2012 State Envirothon contest will be held in April of next year. Regional competions will be held:
| South Central: |
March 6 |
| Southwest: |
March 13 |
| North Central: |
March 14 |
| East Central: |
March 15 |
| Northwest: |
March 15 |
| Central: |
March 19 |
| North East: |
March 22 |
2012 Current Issue
“Nonpoint Source Pollution/Low Impact Development”
This year’s Current Issue is aligned with the Canon® Envirothon. Nonpoint source pollution, unlike pollution from industrial & sewage treatment plants, can come from many different sources. Stormwater runoff carries pollutants into our streams, rivers, reservoirs and other bodies of water. Low Impact Development (LID) is a set of approaches and practices that are designed to reduce runoff of water and pollutants from the site at which they are generated.
2012 Current Issue References
- Indiana Storm Water Quality Manual: Chapter 1 & Appendix A
- Stormwater and Non-point Source Pollution—Planning with Power
- Dauphin County Conservation District newsletters: Issue 5 & Issue 6
- EPA How Does Green Infrastructure Benefit the Environment
- LID A Literature Review—selected section
- LID For Big Box Retailers
- South West Michigan Planning Commission –LID News #1-#6
2012 Envirothon competition:
>> Click here for the 2012 Envirothon Booklet
>> Click here for the 2012 Registration Form
>> Click here for the Score Sheet so teams will be able to
see how teams were graded during their oral presentations
for the 2011 contest.
If you have any questions about the State Envirothon Contest,
contact Rebecca Lauster, President.
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2011 Indiana Envirothon State Winners
Rossville FFA wins Envirothon state contest
The 2011 Indiana Envirothon State Winning team is the Rossville FFA. Team members Mary Crail, Micah Koehler-Marsh, Angela Meador, Quinton Hufford, and Joe Murphy competed at the Regional Envirothon Competition on March 8 in Bedford where they placed first out of 28 teams. They showed their expertise in the natural resource areas of soils & land use, aquatics, forestry, wildlife and current environmental issues.
At the state contest on April 20 at Vincennes University, the team was again tested on their natural resource knowledge, and they also had to solve an environmental problem and present their solution in a fifteen minute presentation to a panel of nine judges. The team won the knowledge testing segment and the presentation division, making them the overall winners. They are now preparing for the International Canon Envirothon Workshop and Competition to be held at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick in Canada in late July.
 Pictured (from left to right) are; Leah Harden, State Envirothon Treasurer and Clinton County SWCD Representative and Rossville FFA Team Consultant, Darci Zolman, State Envirothon Secretary and Rossville FFA Team Consultant, Team Members Joe Murphy, Micah Koehler-Marsh, Angela Meador, Mary Crail, Quinton Hufford, and Rebecca Lauster, State Envirothon President.
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