AUGUSTA, MI (WTVB) – Twenty four teams of high school students from across the state will be competing during the three-day Michigan Envirothon State Competition at the Fort Custer Training Center in Augusta. The competition runs from May 6 to 8.
The high school teams competing at the state competition qualified for the event by competing at regional competitions held around the state throughout the month of March. Teams moving on to this state level event are from the Branch Area Career Center, Career Line Tech Center FFA, Caro High School, Glen Lake Community School, Hillsdale High School, New Buffalo High School, New Lothrop High School, Oakand Technical School NW and SE, Owosso High School, Roseville High School, Valley Lutheran High School, and West Michigan Lutheran High School.
The competition’s overall winner will be named the Michigan Envirothon State Champion and will move on to the final round of competition, the North American Envirothon at the Missouri State University Springfield, Missouri in July.
During the Michigan Envirothon State Competition, teams utilize diverse “eco-stations” as competition testing sites for hands-on examinations in the topics of Forestry, Soils and Geology, Aquatic Ecology, Wildlife, Energy, Agriculture. In addition, each team will present an oral presentation of the results of their community outreach projects in which they identified and remedied a natural resource concern in their own community.
