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Marshalltown Sr. High School Captures Iowa EnvirothonApril 22, 2008
Guthrie Center, Iowa – A team of five students from Marshalltown Senior High School beat out 14 other teams to win the 13th annual Iowa Envirothon contest held Monday, April 21, at Springbrook State Park. Marshalltown won or tied for first place in four of five areas of competition, edging out the Decorah Propaganda Pandas from Decorah High School for first place overall. Orient-Macksburg High School took third place, followed by another Decorah team, Decorah Scat and Tracks. The Winterset Horned Frogs from Winterset High School finished in fifth place. Marshalltown will compete at the national competition, the Canon Envirothon, held at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz., July 28-August 3. In addition, each member of the Marshalltown team received a $500 scholarship from Iowa State University. The Envirothon tested the students’ knowledge in the areas of aquatic ecology, forestry, soils, and wildlife at stations throughout Springbrook’s Conservation Education Center. Each team also gave an oral presentation on “Recreational Impacts on Natural Resources.” Judges said the key to Marshalltown’s victory was a dominating performance in the oral presentation, easily outscoring the competition. In other individual categories, Marshalltown tied Decorah’s Propaganda Pandas and Northwood-Kensett for top score in aquatics ecology; the Propaganda Pandas won the forestry event; Marshalltown took first place in the soils division; and North Polk’s FFA Team 1 tied Marshalltown for first place in the wildlife category. The Envirothon is North America’s largest high school environmental competition. The goals of the contest are to increase students’ knowledge and awareness of the interrelationship of our natural resources; promote environmental awareness and stewardship; develop students’ critical thinking, cooperative problem solving and decision-making skills; present balanced options for management of natural resources; and provide awareness of and accessibility to resource organizations offering assistance in environmental issues. The Iowa Envirothon is a program of the Conservation Districts of Iowa in cooperation with: Iowa Farm Bureau, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship-Division of Soil Conservation, Iowa FFA Association, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Iowa Soybean Association, Iowa Pork Producers Association, Iowa Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, Iowa State University, Canon USA, Inc., and many local soil and water conservation districts. For full results of the 2008 Iowa Envirothon, please visit www.cdiowa.org/envirothon.html. ### Contact: |
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