Envirothon

The Envirothon is an environmental education program made available to Pennsylvania Conservation Districts in partnership with related state and federal agencies and other organizations. The Envirothon program is designed to test high school students' knowledge of Pennsylvania's natural resources and environmental sciences. The program emphasizes the importance of environmental sensitivity while stressing a need to achieve a social, ecological, and economic balance. The Pennsylvania Envirothon provide future generations with the ability to be better equipped to address the complex natural resource concerns facing today's world as well as the challenges of tomorrow.

The Envirothon is an outdoor competition designed for students in grades 7 - 12. The purpose of the program is to strengthen the environmental awareness of Pennsylvania's young men and women. This is done by challenging the student's knowledge of the environment in five testing stations - soils, wildlife, aquatics, forestry, and current environmental issues.

The 24th Annual 2008 Regional Envirothon was held at Shikellamy State Park on Tuesday May 6, 2008.
The 10th Annual 2008 Jr. High Envirothon was held at Montour Preserve on Tuesday April 29, 2008.

For the second year in a row both the Jr. and Sr. High Envirothon Teams placed first!
On a beautiful day 58 Teams from five counties participated in this years Sr. High Envirothon.
Sunbury Christian Academy Team A will be travelling to the State Competition at Penn State on May 19th & 20th.

Top Row Team A: Jason Hoffman, Kellie Rothermel, Michelle Cease, Gary Daddario, Jesse Hendrickson.
Middle Row Team B: Matt Wilkinson, Joselyn Remphrey, Janelle Kifer, Clint Bolduc, Jacob Fahringer.
Front Row Team C: Molly Gutelius, Chelsie Diehl, Dakota Lewis, Becca Powlus, Heather Bamford.

2008 First Place Jr. High Team
Elijah Miller, Katie Zeigler,
Carissa Erdman & Brittany Baumert

The 2008 Sunbury Christian Academy Jr. High Envirothon Team not only took first place this year they also had the highest scores on three out of the four test.
This team also scored a perfect 100 on the Wildlife test!

29 Jr. High Teams from Columbia, Montour and Northumberland County competed at this years 10th Annual Jr. High Competition. This is the second time that Sunbury Christian Academy has won back to back Jr. High Envirothon Competitions.

Congratulations team you did great!

The 2007 Susquehanna Valley High School Envirothon drew 54 teams from 5 counties.
Sunbury Christian Academy Team A placed first in Northumberland County this year and 3rd overall! This team will be traveling to the State Competition at Penn State on May 21st & 22nd.

Top row: Michelle Cease, Kevin Klinger, Gary Daddario, T.J. Cease Tim Becker
Middle Row: Sydney Edwards, Jake Fahringer, Lance Adams
Jesse Hendrickson, Jason Hoffman
Front Row: Katelyn Poling, Chelsie Diehl, Taryn Borich
Becca Powlus, Clint Bolduc

2007 First Place Jr. High Team
Cassie Adams, Elijah Miller, Molly Gutelius
Matt Wilkinson, Carissa Erdman

The 2007 Jr. High Team took 1st Place out of 28 teams at the Jr. High Envirothon. Two special honors were that this team earned the highest score in the forestry segment and tied for the highest score in the wildlife test.

This year marks the first time that both the Sr. High and Jr. High Teams earned first place at their respective competitions.

Congratulations on a job well done!

The 2006 Sunbury Christian Academy Jr. High Team A took 2nd Place out of 25 teams at the 8th Annual Jr. High Envirothon, which took place on May 9th at Montour Preserve. The winning team has a score of 300 and SCA Team A had a score of 298. Just 2 points separated first and second, very good competition. Two special honors were that Team B earned the highest score in the aquatics segment with a score of 88/100 and Team A earned the highest score in the soils segment with a score of 86/100.

The 25 teams competing represented schools from Union, Snyder, Northumberland, Montour, and Columbia Counties.

The 2006 Sunbury Christian Academy Sr. High Team A took 8th Place out of 49 teams and 2nd Place out of the Northumberland County Teams at the 22nd Annual High School Envirothon, which took place on May 2nd 2006 at Shikellamy State Park. One special honor was that the teams earned the highest score in the aquatics segment with a score of 90/100.

The 49 teams competing represented schools from Northumberland, Union, Snyder, Montour, and Columbia Counties.

The 2005 Sunbury Christian Academy Jr. High Envirothon Team took 2nd Place out of 26 teams of 7th and 8th Graders at the 7th Annual Middle School Envirothon which took place on May 17th 2005 at Montour Preserve.

The 26 teams represented schools from Northumberland, Union, Snyder, Montour, and Columbia Counties.

2004 First Place
Northumberland County
Mr. Hernandez (advisor) Micah Hallman, Josh Parry Kent Himelright, Philip Anstadt and Kevin Bloom

The 2004 20th Annual Susquehanna Valley High School Envirothon drew 58 teams and 290 students from 5 counties.
Sunbury Christian Academy Team placed first in Northumberland County for the third year in a row and 3rd overall! This team will be traveling to the State Competition at University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown Campus on May 24th & 25th.

The 2003 19th Annual Susquehanna Valley High School Envirothon brought 72 teams from 20 different school districts. Sunbury Christian Academy Team placed first in Northumberland County for the second year in a row and 3rd overall! This team will be traveling to the State Competition at Penn State Mt. Alto Campus.

The 2002 18th Annual Susquehanna Valley High School Envirothon brought more than 300 students from 20 different school districts. Sunbury Christian Academy Team A placed first in Northumberland County and 3rd overall, enough to earn a trip to the State competition. Team B placed 12th overall in the county competition. Great job!

The 17th Annual Regional Envirothon was held at Shikellamy State Park on May 8, 2001.
62 High School teams comprising of over 300 students from Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder and Union Counties competed.
Students were tested on soils, wildlife, forestry, aquatics and this years special topic, non-point source pollution.
Sunbury Christian Academy sent two teams. This was the first year of competition in the Sr. High Envirothon for these two teams. They did well and finished 8th and 13th out of the 62 teams.
One special honor went to SCA Team B for being recognized by the Pennsylvania Game Commission for scoring a 94 on the Wildlife Test, the highest at this years event. Congratulations on a good first year showing!

1st and 2nd Place 2000
Jr. High Teams

1999 marked the 1st annual Central Susquehanna Valley Middle School Envirothon. In 1999, 20 teams from ten schools in four counties brought 100 students to participate in the Middle School Envirothon at the Shikellamy State Park in Sunbury.
First Place went to Sunbury Christian Academy!

The 2000 Middle School Envirothon was held at the Montour County Preserve, Washingtonville. The SCA Envirothon Teams worked hard and for the second year in a row earned First and Second Place!

Congratulations on a job well done!