CALABASAS : Students Face Test on the Environment
Several Calabasas High School students will travel to Northern California later this month to compete in an academic decathlon that focuses on environmental issues.
The youths have been studying after school and weekends to prepare for the California Envirothon to be held April 30 near Yosemite National Park, said Calabasas City Councilwoman Lesley Devine, an environmental consultant who has volunteered to help coach the students. The lead coach, she said, is Carl Gibbs, an environmentalist who lives in Calabasas.
The decathlon will cover issues such as water pollution, nuclear waste, landfills and vanishing natural resources, Devine said. The students say the decathlon is a good way to call attention to the planet’s environmental problems.
“If people were only more aware of the world around them and how to maintain it, so many problems could be eliminated,” said 12th-grader Jennifer Wan, one of the team members.
Other team members are Tammy Sharp, Polly Niravath, Ruth Park, Traci Craig, Ben Shapiro and Sandra Lin, the team’s captain.
The California Envirothon is sponsored by the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Devine said.
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