{"id":10471,"date":"2014-06-24T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T16:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=10471"},"modified":"2014-06-24T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T16:37:14","slug":"carroll-county-high-school-team-take-top-honors-at-maryland-envirothon-washington-and-harford-county-students-take-second-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2014\/06\/24\/carroll-county-high-school-team-take-top-honors-at-maryland-envirothon-washington-and-harford-county-students-take-second-third\/","title":{"rendered":"Carroll County High School Team Take Top Honors at Maryland Envirothon; Washington and Harford County Students Take Second, Third"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carroll County: Students, from left, are: Rebecca Gross, Ben Fleury, Elliot Hirtle, Amy Donna Bittier, Madison Warfield and coach Claudia Lewis.<\/p><\/div>\n

ANNAPOLIS, MD \u00a0\u2013 A five-member team of students from Carroll County, named Venturing Crew 202, is the winner of the 24th annual Maryland Envirothon<\/a>\u2014an outdoor natural resources competition that challenges students to identify and categorize living resources, perform soil surveys and solve other complex natural resource issues.\u00a0 More than 100 challengers from 18 counties across Maryland took part in this year\u2019s competition.\u00a0The event was held June 18-19 at the Camp Pecometh in Queen Anne\u2019s County. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cIt is great to see such a sincere interest in the science side of the environment,\u201d said Secretary Buddy Hance.\u00a0 \u201cWith the strong leadership and scientific expertise of these students, the outlook for our natural resources and agricultural industry is indeed very bright.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The five Carroll County students attend three different high schools in the region. Team members are: Rebecca Gross, Ben Fleury, Elliot Hirtle, Amy Donna Bittier, Madison Warfield and coach Claudia Lewis. The team will participate in the Diamond Jim striped bass tagging component of the Maryland Fishing Challenge<\/a> sponsored by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Captain Joseph G. Richardson along with his charter boat \u201cDancer\u201d and a DNR biologist will take the students out on the Chesapeake Bay on June 26th <\/sup>to help with this event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The second place team is the Clear Spring Trailblazers from Clear Spring High School in Washington County.\u00a0 The third place team, named Grapes, is from Harford Christian High School in Harford County.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Maryland Envirothon is held once a year at an outdoor environmental education center. Students taking part in the competition study Maryland\u2019s natural resources for a year in hopes of winning. Working in teams of five with one to two alternates, students are trained and tested in four natural resource areas including soils, aquatics, forestry and wildlife plus an environmental issue that changes from year to year.\u00a0This year\u2019s special environmental issue was Sustainable Agriculture. Each team\u2019s knowledge, teamwork and problem solving skills are tested and evaluated under the supervision of foresters, soil scientists and wildlife specialists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At this year\u2019s competition, the Venturing Crew 202 from Carroll County scored 437.1 points out of a possible 500.\u00a0 They were followed by teams from Washington County (416.9 points), and Harford County (409.4 points)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Members of the top three teams were awarded scholarships ranging from $300 to $1,000 through the Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board Scholarship Program.\u00a0In addition, winning team members received a wildlife print, Maryland Envirothon shirt and other prizes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Carroll County team was also the high scorer in the \u201csoils\u201d category of the competition with a score of 93.0 points out of a possible 100.\u00a0The Mid-Atlantic Association of Professional Soil Scientists (MAPSS) presented each member of the team with a cash award of $50.\u00a0In addition, the team received a print and gift cards.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Established in 1990, the Maryland Envirothon aims to test students\u2019 environmental knowledge and understanding of state resource issues and to instill a desire to learn more about the natural world.\u00a0More than 30 states, Canada and Australia send teams to the international competition.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Maryland Envirothon is sponsored by the Maryland Association of Soil Conservation Districts and the State Soil Conservation Committee.\u00a0Contributors and supporters include the Maryland Department of Agriculture, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Maryland Department of Environment, the University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board, Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation, and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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For more photos of the Envirothon<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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ANNAPOLIS, MD \u00a0\u2013 A five-member team of students from Carroll County, named Venturing Crew 202, is the winner of the 24th annual Maryland Envirothon\u2014an outdoor natural resources competition that challenges students to identify and categorize living resources, perform soil surveys and solve other complex natural resource issues.\u00a0 More than 100 challengers from 18 counties across  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10474,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471\/revisions\/10474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}