Perkiomen Valley Takes Second Place in Montco High School Envirothon

The Montgomery County Conservation District Held its annual Envirothon May 1 – 3, which featured student teams from several of the county’s elementary, middle and high schools, including Perkiomen Valley High School.

The Envirothon, which started state-wide in 1976, is designed to expose youth to nature through which they can relate how humans impact the natural world, while providing invaluable lessons for understanding ecosystems and our environment, according to the Envirothon website.

Montgomery County’s Conservation District has three versions of the Envirothon, one for each school level.

As previously reported on Patch, at the high school level, teams of students worked together to test their knowledge in the following areas:

• Soils and Land Use

• Aquatic Ecology

• Forestry

• Wildlife

• A current Environmental Topic – this year's topic was “Grazing livestock for improving herd health and land management.”

This year, six high school teams participated in the Envirothon, which took place outdoors at the Lower Perkiomen Valley Park in Oaks, whose tests were facilitated by various local, state and federal environmentally based agencies.

The six participating Montgomery County High School teams were:

• Abington High School
• Norristown Area High School
• Lower Moreland High School
• Upper Merion High School
• Perkiomen Valley High School
• Lower Merion High School

Perkiomen Valley High School earned a second-place finish, while Norristown Area High school took third and Lower Merion High school was this year’s county champion.

Teams winning at the county level go on to the state Envirothon, where over $10,000 in scholarships and prizes are awarded. Winners at the state level then may compete in the North American Enviorthon, which includes high school teams from Canada.

According to Kristina Henderson, Conservation District program specialist, Lower Merion High school left for the state-level Envirothon on May 21.

For more information visit www.montgomeryconservation.org/envirothon.htm or www.envirothonpa.org.