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 White Plains, NY - Teams from John Jay High School placed first and eighth among 38 high school teams in the 17th annual Hudson Valley Regional Envirothon, an environmental science competition held recently in Fishkill.
Thirteen teams of students from seven Westchester schools competed in the April 29 event, which is sponsored by the Westchester County Soil and Water Conservation District and the county Department of Planning. The Westchester students represented Hastings, John Jay (Katonah-Lewisboro), Ossining, Scarsdale, Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES, Yorktown, and Walter Panas (Lakeland) high schools. One of Ossining’s two teams placed sixth in the competition.
The John Jay team, coached by teacher Linda Burke, had the highest cumulative score. As the highest scoring team from Westchester County, the team will now advance to the New York State Envirothon to be held at the State University of New York-Cobleskill on May 21 and 22. The winner of that competition will represent New York at the Canon National Envirothon in Flagstaff, Arizona July 28 to August 3.
“We are excited that so many of our high schools participate and that a Westchester school won the regional competition,” said Stephen Coleman, chair of the Westchester County Soil and Water Conservation District. “The Envirothon really encourages students to learn about environmental issues.”
The event is organized around five areas: soils, aquatics, forestry, wildlife and current environmental issues. The current events issue for this year’s competition related to the environmental impacts of recreation.
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