2025 NCF Envirothon Champions!

Congratulations to Erin, Jocelyn, Eileen, Tomer, Caroline and Coach Steve Wilkins!

EEA News Release

Lexington High School proudly represented Massachusetts at the National Conservation Foundation (NCF) Envirothon, where their performance highlighted outstanding teamwork and collaboration. The students worked across diverse environmental topics—forestry, soils, water, wildlife, and the current issue—relying on each other’s strengths to tackle complex tests. Their preparation involved fieldwork, research, and practice presentations, which paid off in their ability to think critically and communicate clearly under pressure. Guided by coach Steve Wilkins, the team’s success stemmed from a strong sense of shared responsibility, trust, and dedication—qualities that allowed them to excel at one of the most competitive high school environmental science events, resulting in an overall 1st place win! The team also scored 1st in forestry and soils and 2nd in water and wildlife. A huge thank you to Ecostation Leaders Pam Landry, Kathryn Parent, Felicia Hubacz, Brittany Gutermuth and Maggie Payne and their staff for assisting the team with training.

We are proud of you Lexington!

You can find the official news release and scoresheet on the NCF Envirothon website

As a top three team, Lexington gave their oral presentation to the full auditorium. You can view their presentation starting at about 1:22:00 here.

2025 T-shirt design winners!

Layered under sweaters and raincoats, our teams showed their team spirit with fabulous t-shirts! The DCR Forest Health Seasonal crew awarded these 4 as the best of the bunch! Congratulations!

two students in light blue shirts that say oliver ames high school and show a building with wildlife, trees and a river

Best use of Current Issue Theme   (Forest Stewardship)

Fitting that Oliver Ames should win a prize- we’re on their home turf and this contest was suggested by a former team mate in 2013!

Most Artistic goes to Fitchburg High School!

Best use of other Envirothon Themes goes to rookie team: Dedham High School

Creative Coordination goes to the ever purple Monty Tech!

Special thanks to the Freda and Dunham families for sponsoring these awards this year!

And the winners are…

Well folks, they did it again!
Lexington High School took first place overall!

It was a WET and windy day but our 31 teams from 23 schools did an amazing job! A huge thanks to the volunteers and park staff who made the day a huge success! eProgram lists almost all of them! More pictures coming soon.

Overall     

1                  Lexington High School
2                  Minuteman Technical High School
3                  Reading Memorial High School
4                  Shepherd Hill Regional High School
5                  Acton Boxborough Regional High School
6                  Boston Latin School
7                  Salem High School
8                  Fitchburg High School
9                  Doherty High School
10                Somerset Berkley Regional High School

Current Issue

1    Lexington High School GREEN

2    Lexington High School BLUE

3    Shepherd Hill Regional High School MAROON

4    Fitchburg High School

5    Monty Tech GREEN

Forestry

1 Lexington High School BLUE

2 Acton Boxborough Regional High School BLUE

3 Fitchburg High School

4 Minuteman Technical High School

5 Boston Latin School

Soils

1 Lexington High School GREEN

2 Lexington High School BLUE

3 Reading Memorial High School BLUE

4 Acton Boxborough Regional High School GREEN

5 Minuteman Technical High School

Water

1 Lexington High School BLUE

2 Salem High School

3 (Tie) Boston Latin and  Somerset Berkeley Regional High School

4 Minuteman Technical High School

Wildlife

1 Lexington High School BLUE

2 Minuteman Technical High School

3 Reading Memorial High School BLUE

4 Shepherd Hill Regional High School MAROON

5 Lexington High School GREEN

Come learn about Envirothon!

Do you work with high school aged youth and the natural environment? Come check out the MA Envirothon and learn how to form a team! Sign up here by May 20!

2025 MA State Grange Grants for Envirothon Teams

Massachusetts State Grange will again sponsor the 2025 EnviroTrek Lunch at the Massachusetts Envirothon Competition on May 22nd, 2025 at Borderland State Park in Easton. Massachusetts Envirothon is extremely grateful for their continued support!

Additionally, $1500 in scholarships will be made available to teams for the 2024-2025 program year..

Teams are be invited to propose how they would spend this scholarship money – e.g. Envirothon related equipment, field trips, transportation, or registration. Priority will be given to new teams, teams that have not been awarded grants previously, and teams with financial need.

To apply, fill out the form below! Applications are due by Feb 12 @ 5pm. MESC will review applications and teams will be notified soon after.

Update: All funds have been distributed for 24-25.

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Registration open for the 2024-25 Envirothon year

We hope you’ll join us for the 2024-25 program year, and the 2025 MA Envirothon to be held on May 22, 2025 at Borderlands State Park in Easton!

Teams may register using this form

The 2025 Current Issue is Rooted In Resiliency

The Fall workshop will be held at Verdantas Flow Labs in Holden MA (formerly Alden Lab) on Friday November 15. Sign up here by Nov 1!

2024 MA Envirothon results

It started off as a beautiful day! The 2024 MA Envirothon competition had to end early due to severe weather. After careful analysis of the scores received in the four full sessions completed, we were able to clearly determine an overall 1st place winner:

Lexington High School (Blue)

Congrats Eileen, Caroline, Jocelyn, Tomer and Erin! Good luck at NCF Envirothon in July!

Because not every team was able to complete every station, we have opted to report out Honorable Mentions for high scores on the stations instead of a ranking, in alphabetical order.

Honorable Mentions
Forest
Acton Boxborough Regional High School (Blue) Fitchburg High School
Lexington High School (Green)
Reading Memorial High School (Blue)
Shepherd Hill Regional High School (Maroon)  
Soil
Fitchburg High School
Lexington High School (Blue) & (Green) Minuteman High School Environmental Tech (Blue)
Reading Memorial High School (Blue)
Shepherd Hill Regional High School (Gold)
Water
Lexington High School (Blue) & (Green) Minuteman High School Environmental Tech (Blue) & (Green)
Norfolk County Agricultural High School
Reading Memorial High School (Blue)
Shepherd Hill Regional High School (Maroon)  
Wildlife
Boston Latin Academy (Green)
Brockton High School/Wildlands Trust/Manomet (Green)
Fitchburg High School
Lexington High School (Blue) & (Green) Minuteman High School Environmental Tech (Blue) & (Green)  
Current Issue
Acton Boxborough Regional High School (Blue)
Brockton High School/Wildlands Trust/Manomet (Green)
Lexington High School (Blue)
Millbury Jr./Sr. High School
O’Bryant School for Math and Science (Green)  

Congratulations to all our teams for their hard work throughout the 23-24 program year!

2024 MA Envirothon competition details!

Are you excited?! May 23 @Wachusett Reservoir North Dike (Gate 37)

no-waste E-Program has so much information for you including a schedule of the day!

Please plan on arriving around 7:30 to park and walk into the site – directions linked here

New coaches invited to try out Envirothon!

Have you been thinking about forming an Envirothon team but want to learn more about the program first? Come join us at the May 2024 competition for a special tour and sessions for potential coaches!

You’ll get to tour the competition, talk with current coaches about logistics and funding, see student presentations and get excited about forming a team! Come learn how our free resources can support your Environmental Science, Biology, or Civics/local Government classes and inspire your students to take action!

Breakfast and lunch provided! Free PDP’s available with a follow-up assignment.

Thursday May 23rd, 2024 Clinton MA. Directions and full agenda provided upon registration. Register here by May 16. Questions? contact massenvirothon@gmail.com

LSPA 30for30 grant for Envirothon teams

The Licensed Site Professional Association‘s 30 for 30 grant program has awarded $6500 to MA Envirothon to distribute to teams to cover transportation and registration fees.

Thanks to the generosity of the Licensed Site Professional Association (LSPA) 30for30 Grant program, Envirothon teams that serve students from environmental justice designated areas may apply for funds to cover registration and transportation to events in spring and fall of 2024.  

To see if your community qualifies, please refer to this map

To apply for funding, please complete the this short form, including how much you are asking for and how the funds will be spent. 

Priority will be given to:

  • Teams who are new to the program or
  • Teams who are willing and able to “bus-pool” with other teams (in district or nearby) or
  • Teams who are able to get their sending district to cover a portion of the total cost 

If you have any questions, contact massenvirothon@gmail.com! We are excited for this opportunity to provide support for our Envirothon teams and happy to work with you to get permission from your administration/district to participate. 

Huge thanks to the LSPA for recognizing the importance of work Envirothon teams are doing in their communities and helping amplify their voices! We look forward to working with Association members to mentor teams in the future!