Washington State Envirothon

In 1979, the Pennsylvania Soil and Water Conservation Districts created an “Environmental Olympics” competition as an approach aimed to encourage high school students to become interested in natural resource conservation and environmental issues. The Environmental Olympics, later shortened to Enviro-Olympics, quickly gained popularity as a hands-on, outdoor competition designed to challenge and test each student’s knowledge of soils/land use, aquatic ecology, forestry, wildlife, and current environmental issues.