About Us
Mission Statement
To educate the community on environmentally safe and sustainable behaviors; as well as raise money and support for environmental initiatives. To focus on reducing waste and increasing recycling on campus. To support environmental causes, by creating and completing service projects locally. To provide opportunities to change people’s actions and their attitudes: to increase “thinking green.”
Community Service Projects
Members will submit ideas for community service projects to be voted on and completed each semester. Community service projects will become a major focus of each club meeting to include the planning, funding, and execution of each project.
(Left) E.A.C. members completed a Community Service Project at Saguaro Lake on Tuesday, October 1, 2019 & enjoyed a short hike near the lake afterwards.
Envirothon
What is Envirothon?
The National Conservation Foundation Envirothon (NCF Envirothon), is North America’s largest natural resource competition for high school students.
Arizona’s competition is open to all high schools within the state. Interested students form a 5-member team, study and learn about our natural resources and then compete for the opportunity to win significant prizes and represent Arizona at the annual NCF Envirothon.
Students and their coaches prepare for the competition with assistance from natural resource professionals. The major areas of study include aquatic ecology, soils and land use, wildlife, forestry, and a current environmental theme that changes yearly. Students must learn about each topic area and more importantly understand that these resources are not isolated subjects, but rather interact within a given ecosystem.
Today’s youth are tomorrow’s leaders and none today can question the importance and benefits of environmental stewardship. The Envirothon helps students to develop the critical thinking skills that are necessary to manage and conserve natural resources in a sustainable manner, always mindful of economic, social, and environmental concerns.
Both the Arizona Envirothon and NCF Envirothon programs encourage working in partnership with natural resource management professionals, the education community, and the general public. These programs strive to create an effective multidisciplinary educational tool that will help our state’s schools to nurture environmentally aware students; meet an immediate need to teach more environmental education; and to recognize students, grades 9-12 who achieve excellence in natural resource management, knowledge and skills.
Our hope is that participants will gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of how individual actions affect natural resource issues; the interactions and interdependencies of our environment; current natural resource issues; agencies available to assist them in resource protection matters; and the need to become environmentally aware, action-oriented adults.
SAGUARO Lake Cleanup October 1, 2019
