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Moorestown Friends Students Compete for Envirothon Glory
Students from Moorestown Friends will take on their peers in a natural resources knowledge competition on May 5.
Two teams of Moorestown Friends School students will be among those competing Saturday to represent New Jersey the nation’s largest environmental education competition.
The students will take on 32 other teams during the 19th annual New Jersey Envirothon, a contest that tests students on natural resources topics.
This year’s Envirothon theme is “Nonpoint Source Pollution/Low Impact Development.”
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One hundred seventy students from 15 New Jersey counties will participate in the competition at the Girl Scout Camp Sacajawea in Farmingdale, according to the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, which co-sponsors the Envirothon.
The winning team will receive a college scholarship, plus represent New Jersey at the 2012 Canon Envirothon at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA, in July.
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The teams competing Saturday are:
Arthur L. Johnson High School (Clark)
Biotechnology High School (Freehold) Team #1
Biotechnology High School (Freehold) Team #2
Bridgewater-Raritan High School
Cedar Creek High School Team #1
Cedar Creek High School Team #2
East Orange Stem Academy
Egg Harbor Township High School Team #1
Egg Harbor Township High School Team #2
Highland Regional High School (Blackwood)
High Tech High School (North Bergen) Team # 1
High Tech High School (North Bergen) Team # 2
Holmdel High School
Kittatinny Regional High School Team # 1
Kittatinny Regional High School Team # 1
Manalapan High School
Marine Academy of Science and Technology (Highlands) Team #1
Marine Academy of Science and Technology (Highlands) Team #2
Marine Academy of Technology & Environmental Science (Manahawkin) Team #1
Marine Academy of Technology & Environmental Science (Manahawkin) Team #2
Metuchen High School
Millville Senior High School Team #1
Millville Senior High School Team #2
Montville Township High School
Moorestown Friends School Team #1
Moorestown Friends School Team #2
Passaic Valley High School
Princeton High School Team #1
Princeton High School Team #2
Timber Creek Regional High School (Sicklerville)
Trenton Central High School
Watchung Hills Regional High School
Wayne High School
West Windsor-Plainsboro
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