Seneca Valley team wins Envirothon competition
A team of students from Seneca Valley High School won the annual Butler County Envirothon held May 6 at Jennings Environmental Education Center.
Fifteen high school and seven middle school teams participated in the event.
The Envirothon is designed to give students an opportunity to acquire and demonstrate their knowledge of environmental resources and relationships between resources and human activities.
The goal of the Envirothon program is to help students become environmentally knowledgeable, skilled, dedicated citizens who are willing to work toward achieving an equilibrium between the quality of life and the quality of the environment.
The students were challenged in forestry, aquatics, wildlife, soils and recreational impact on the environment.
Tests were conducted by personnel from the Bureau of Forestry, the Pennsylvania Game Commission, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, the Butler County Recycling Department and the Butler County Conservation District.
The Seneca Valley High School team is led by teachers Rebecca Finch and Dana Hadley. It will represent Butler County in the state Envirothon competition at Penn State University Monday and Tuesday.
The winner of the state competition will represent Pennsylvania at the international Canon Envirothon, a five-day event scheduled July 28 to Aug. 3.
The Canon Envirothon, which is billed as the world's largest environmental competition, will be held in Flagstaff, Ariz.
Ron Fodor is district manager of the Butler County Conservation District.
