Kent Roosevelt Environmental Club heads to the state Envirothon competition

Roosevelt’s Envirothon teams pose together in Roosevelt’s courtyard, which the Environmental Club is currently renovating with a grant from the Portage Soil & Water Conservation District. Photo courtesy of Chris Carman

Kent Roosevelt Environmental Club heads to the state Envirothon competition

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The Roosevelt Environmental Club won the Area 2 Envirothon Competition this past Thursday at Kent State’s Salem campus. The Envirothon is an environmental and natural resource conservation problem-solving, teambuilding and leadership experience and competition for high school students across the United States, Canada and China.

Environmental Club members prepared by studying topics related to aquatic ecology, forestry, soils and land use, wildlife, and this year’s current environmental issue, “Waste to Resources.”

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