Envirothon
Virginia Dominion Energy Envirothon 2025
The 2025 Program Current Issue Topic is
“Roots and Resiliency: Fostering Forest Stewardship in a Canopy of Change”
AREA III Envirothon Training
WHEN: Sunday, March 23, 2025
PLACE: Dorey Park in Henrico, Virginia
Area III Competition
WHEN: Tuesday, April 15
PLACE: Dorey Park in Henrico, Virginia
Virginia State Competition
WHEN: May 18-19, 2025
PLACE: Mary Washington University
Fredericksburg, Virginia
2025 International Competition
WHEN: July 20 - July 26, 2025
PLACE: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
For additional information please contact Amanda Whispell at Amanda.Whispell@ColonialSWCD.org or call 757-778-5348.
For resources and information for Envirothon:
What is the Envirothon?
The Virginia Envirothon, a recognized outreach program supported by the state legislature in code, is a natural resources competition through which high school students around the Commonwealth compete by demonstrating their knowledge of environmental science and natural resource management. In preparation for the event, teams of students spend the year studying soils, forestry, aquatics, wildlife, and a current specific environmental issue. Students also apply their knowledge of these topics and problem solving skills through an oral presentation in which they solve real-life environmental problems. The program is field-oriented, community based and gives students an opportunity to work with natural resource professionals.
Click here for a video overview of the Dominion Energy Envirothon competition!
Who can participate, and what do they do?
Students work in teams of five. Throughout the school year students prepare to compete at the local level and then qualify to compete at the area level. The top three teams from the six Soil & Water Conservation Districts compete at the State level. The Virginia Envirothon is a natural resources competition through which high school students around the Commonwealth compete by demonstrating their knowledge of environmental science and natural resource management. Students visit five “in-the-field” test stations where written and hands-on problem solving is required along with an oral presentation formulating a strategy to address a specific environmental issue they’ve been presented with.
The event is competitive, but education is the bottom line. Teams can be created through high school clubs, home school groups, 4-H groups, scout troops, local nature centers, etc. The only requirements of a team are a minimum of five students and one adult advisor/chaperone.
Click here to learn more about the Dominion Virginia Envirothon.
For additional information please contact Amanda Whispell
at Amanda.Whispell@ColonialSWCD.org or call 757-778-5348.
The Jamestown High School Envirothon team placed first in the 2024 Virginia Dominion Energy Envirothon in the overall competition and advanced to the international competition
Pictured: Beth Oman, Teagan Ketterman, Diego Cordero Muniz, Eleanor Rossi, Carolina Bakker, and Mia Bakker.
Coaches: Rebecca Elton, Amanda Mullane, and Charles Dubay.
The Jamestown High School Envirothon team placed first in the 2023 Virginia Dominion Energy Envirothon in the overall competition and advanced to the international competition.
Jamestown High School Envirothon team at the 2023 Virginia Envirothon State Competition
Coaches: Rebecca Elton, Amanda Mullane and Charlie Dubay.
The Jamestown High School Envirothon team won the 2019 international competition!
The Jamestown Envirothon Team receives a $15,000 prize for winning the 2019 NCF Envirothon in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Pictured above, left to right, are Bill Gill and Alyssa Hamill of Smithfield Foods, Jamestown HS Envirothon Team members Joseph Kang, Rachel Smith, Anna Song, Audrey Root, Lisa Small, and Gene Smith, Executive Committee member of the NCF.