Bismarck, ND, May 16, 2022 -Bismarck High School \u201cWater Buffalos,\u201d coached by Valerie
\nSmallbeck, sponsored by the Burleigh County Soil Conservation District, received top honors at the 22nd
\nAnnual North Dakota State Envirothon Competition. The event was held May 11-13, 2022 at Crystal Springs
\ncamp in North Dakota. Team members are Brooke Bondley, Jake Havelka, Marin Trayner, Ethan Thurn,
\nTheresa Horning and alternate Adam Vasichek.<\/p>\n
A total of 70 students from around the state were challenged on their knowledge and skills about natural
\nresources and the environment. The scores received from a 10-minute oral presentation given before a panel of
\njudges, along with the scores earned on the testing trails, determined the team who will represent North Dakota
\nat the National Conservation Foundation Envirothon Competition, on the Oxford University campus in Miami,
\nOhio, July 24-30, 2022.<\/p>\n
Second place honors went to Kenmare High School \u201cIcy Rubber Duckies,\u201d Envirothon Team, coached
\nby Laura Mibeck, sponsored by the Ward County Soil Conservation District. Team members are Xylis Holter,
\nDiontrea Anderson, Destinee Anderson, Elizabeth Moldenhauer, and Hailey France.
\nThird place honors went to the Center-Stanton \u201cHornets,\u201d Envirothon Team, coached by Brooke
\nBoeshans, and Jodi Hintz, sponsored by the Oliver County Soil Conservation District. Team members are
\nCameron Albers, Kaitlynn Albers, Katie Frank, Reanna Schmidt, and Bree Vosberg.
\nBismarck High School Envirothon Team \u201cWater Buffalos\u201d took top honors on the Wildlife, Soils and
\nAquatics Trail test portion of the competition.<\/p>\n
Kenmare High School \u201cIcy Rubber Duckies,\u201d scored the highest on their Oral Presentation.
\nCenter-Stanton \u201cHornets,\u201d scored the highest on the Prairie\/Forestry Trail test.
\nThe Envirothon is a problem-solving natural resource competition for high school students. Teams
\nconsisting of five members in grades 9-12, from a school, organization or club, study in the areas of
\nprairie(forestry), soil, water, wildlife, and a current environmental issue. Team members demonstrate proven
\nconcepts of hands-on education combined with the excitement of effective educational tools, which will help
\nour schools to nurture environmentally aware students and meet the immediate need to teach more
\nenvironmental natural resource education.<\/p>\n
The North Dakota Envirothon is a North Dakota non profit 501\u00a9 3 organization. We partner with local,
\nstate and federal agencies, organizations, private business and Soil Conservation Districts to educate high
\nschool students annually. For more information, contact Andrea Petersen, North Dakota Envirothon
\nCoordinator, 720-384-5817.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bismarck, ND, May 16, 2022 -Bismarck High School \u201cWater Buffalos,\u201d coached by Valerie Smallbeck, sponsored by the Burleigh County Soil Conservation District, received top honors at the 22nd Annual North Dakota State Envirothon Competition. The event was held May 11-13, 2022 at Crystal Springs camp in North Dakota. Team members […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":248982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248989,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248981\/revisions\/248989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/248982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}