Alberta Envirothon 2023

Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories. Participants have come from large urban centers, remote or rural areas, and First Nations. Teams of five are led by a teacher advisor or volunteer and meet throughout the school year to train. The winning team earns the opportunity to represent Alberta in the NCF-Envirothon (international competition) with teams from across Canada, the USA, and China.

The Envirothon is North America’s largest high school environmental education competition. More than 10 million people have participated from across North America, with 50,000 students from 4,000 high schools competing annually. The program began in 1979 as the “Environmental Olympics” in Pennsylvania to encourage high school students to become interested in natural resource conservation and environmental issues and careers. The Environmental Olympics quickly gained popularity and evolved into the Envirothon. In 1988, the program became known as the Envirothon, and teams from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Massachusetts competed in the first “National Envirothon.” The program grew rapidly, and in 1992, the first Canadian team (from Nova Scotia) participated in the competition, hosted by Maryland’s Envirothon Committee.

The Envirothon is a successful partnership with conservation district associations and cooperating state, provincial, and federal natural resource agencies. The program provides hands-on environmental and natural resource management education to high school students and empowers young people with the competencies and motivation vital to achieving and maintaining a natural balance between the quality of life and the quality of the environment.

The Alberta Envirothon is an excellent opportunity for high school students to develop critical thinking skills to create inventive solutions to the complex local and global environmental and natural resource issues facing our world today. With the Envirothon, students are empowered to educate others, take action in their local communities, pursue higher academic study in environmental disciplines, and work toward careers in the environment, natural resources, and conservation.

Dawn

Hames

Columnist

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