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"When you try to change a single thing, you find it hitched to everything else in the universe..."
 
    John Muir

 

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2025 Arkansas State Envirothon Contest
March 7, 2025
University of Arkansas
Shult Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Fayetteville, AR

Contest Activites

   
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Submission deadline for 2025 registration is JANUARY 15, 2025.
Must be postmarked or faxed dated by January 15, 2025. Late registration will not be accepted.

Mail or fax registration form and $100 registration fee to
Delia Haak
20083 Dawn Hill East Rd
Gentry, AR 72734

bullet Registration Form (PDF)
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The winning team will receive the following prizes:

1st Place - $500
2nd Place - $250

2024 National Envirothon Winning Teams

Arkansas State Envirothon Contest

Arkansas Envirothon Educational Resource Materials

The AR Envirothon is an Arkansas Activities Association (AAA) sanctioned event!! (see http://www.ahsaa.org/activity/28/administrators under Non-athletic Sanctioned Events)

The NAE Learning Objectives can be found on the NAE website.


We are always in the process of updating these pages.
Please check the announcement page for recent postings.

 

 

bulletHistory
bulletConcept
bulletObjectives
bulletHow it works.
bulletHow do I get more information?
bulletFact Sheet
bulletSample Tests, Problems & Oral Score Sheet

Team sponsors and coaches train and test students in five natural resource areas: soils, aquatics, forestry, wildlife, and a current environmental issue such as wetlands management, groundwater, fire, or pesticides.

Envirothon teams, throughout the school year take an in depth look at wildlife, aquatic life, forestry, soils, and current environmental issues. The spirit of competition, which motivates athletes, drives successful businesses, and develops new ideas also motivates young citizens. In competing in the Envirothon, not only do students learn about their state's natural resources, problems and solutions, they also learn about team building, communications, and conservation partnerships.

The payoff for conservation districts, and all participating natural resource agencies or organizations, is a more aware and concerned citizenry in the future. The environment can only benefit from this educational effort. County and state competitors are restricted to students in grades 9-12. However, there is nothing in the by-laws that prevents school districts from establishing an environmental contests for all grade levels as training for the senior high competitions.

Each of the seven state conservation areas are eligible to enter teams of five students in the Arkansas Envirothon competition. The number of teams from an area that advance to the state competition will depend upon the level of interest/participation from each conservation area. As needed, the districts set up a local, area-level competition to decide which teams advance, with a maximum of 20 teams competing at the state level. A limit of two teams from a single school may advance to the state competition, which is generally held each year. Students challenge their knowledge in a problem-solving competition that entails "hands on" involvement with natural resource information. The state competition is held over a period of two days. In addition to 4 written, field-station tests, which cover the 4 study areas, they must give an oral presentation, as a team, where they form possible solutions to a realistic environmental problem dealing with the current issue.

The overall winner of the state competition advances to the Envirothon, which is hosted by a different state or province each year.

Training Guidelines cover what you are expected to know at the International Envirothon competition.  The different sections contain the study materials.  If you have any suggestions or comments, please click on the Your Comment section below to let us know.

Make sure that you check out the Announcements page for the most recent Arkansas Envirothon News. 

 

Sponsors

Arkansas Natural Resources Commission
U C A
Arkansas Association of Conservation Districts
N R C S
Arkansas Natural
Resources Commission
College of Natural Sciences
and Mathematics
Arkansas Association of
Conservation Districts
Natural Resources
Conservations Services
Arkansas Forestry Commission
Arkansas Urban Forestry Council
Society of American Foresters
Arkansas Environmental Federation
Arkansas Forestry
Commission
Arkansas Urban
Forestry Council
Arkansas Division
Ouachita Society of
American Foresters.
Arkansas Environmental
Federation
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Ouachita Society of American Foresters
Weyerhaeuser
Arkansas Soil
Classifers
Ouachita Society
of American Foresters
Soil and Water Conservation
Society
Razorback Chapter
Weyerhaeuser

 

For additional information about the Envirothon Program in Arkansas, contact:         

Delia Haak, Ed.D Arkansas Envirothon Coordinator
ArkansasEnvirothonCoodinator@gmail.com
479-238-4671

Debbie Moreland, Arkansas Association Conservation District Director
debbiepinreal@aol.com
501-425-2891

How do I get more information?

 

The Envirothon Program is offered and operated on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, or physical/mental challenges.