The first-place team moving on to states includes Evan Hepler, Jacob Umstead, Hunter Redfield, Samantha Woolcock, and Matthew Woolcock.
By HANNAH NEIDERRITER
Student contributor
On May 2, 2019, four Cranberry High School teams competed in the annual Venango County Envirothon held at Two Mile Run County Park.
Competing against students from Oil City and Rocky Grove school districts, a total of 11 teams in all, Cranberry swept the competition, placing first, second, and third. Of these teams, the first and second placed were separated by just a single point.
The first-place team, the “Fire-Breathing Rubber Duckies,” consisted of Evan Hepler, Jacob Umstead, Hunter Redfield, Matthew Woolcock, and Samantha Woolcock.
The second-place team, the “NoNames,” was comprised of River Perry, Logan Peterson, Sylas Fox, Eben Wry, and Conor Marterella.
The third-place team, the “Beavcoons,” was made up of Malliah Schreck, Jarod Oliver, Dasan Manross, Hunter O’Neil, and Brandon Forrest.
Cranberry’s fourth team, the “Resurrected Hellbenderz” (Rachael McCauley, AJ Howard, Andrea Watson, Ally Young, and CJ Shreffler) also had a strong finish and placed sixth.
In order to compete in this event, students must be enrolled in a class known as Special Topics Environmental Biology and participate in one training day only two days prior to the actual competition.
Led by advisor Lauri Piercy and co-advisor Dustin Wenner, these competitors were tested on the topics of forestry, aquatics, wildlife, soil, and the special topic was agriculture and best practice management.
Cranberry’s first-place team will move on to represent Venango County at the state level on May 21 and 22, hosted at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown campus.
Cranberry High School students participated in the Venango County Envirothon Competition.
Hannah Neiderriter is a student at Cranberry High School and a member of Cranberry Chronicles, the school’s journalism/publications group.
