On Tuesday, March 31st, students and teachers from nine Huron and Perth high schools gathered at CHSS to participate in a day of workshops in preparation for this year's Envirothon competition. The day began with a lecture by guest speaker Graham Buck, a biologist from the Guelph area who specializes in restoring and preserving fragile ecosystems. The lecture focused on preserving biodiversity in our natural world. This topic is the theme of the 2009 Envirothon Competition. Students then worked in their teams to prepare an eight minute presentation on a given ecological problem. After lunch, each team presented their mock presentation to the other teams and teachers, and they were given constructive feedback in preparation for the actual competition.
The Envirothon teams will travel to Wawanosh Nature Centre on April 9th and take part in workshops on aquatic, soil, wildlife, and forestry ecology. On April 28th, the CHSS Envirothon teams will compete at the Pinery Provincial Park in an effort to take home first place among the Huron-Perth schools. If they can accomplish this feat, they will move on to the Provincial Envirothon in May. This might just be our year...
This year's Envirothon teams consist of Stephanie Seebach, Jeff Gibson, Gary Paquette, Courtney Karounos, and Paul Hearn on Team A, and Katie Crocker, Stephanie Brandon, Tyler Black, Jack Weiler, Fraser King, and T'Miika McMichael on Team B.
(Story courtesy of Mrs. Ross-Holton)
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