IT HAS BEEN A YEARLONG educational adventure for five students on the Walkersville High School Envirothon team that culminated at the 17th annual Canon Envirothon competition held at Hobart & William Smith College in Geneva, N.Y., July 29 through Aug. 4.
The Frederick County students placed 16th among 53 other teams in the North American competition. The team members — Evelyn Michael, Lindsay Keeney, Hanna Poffenberger, Chris Keiser and Chris Higgs — were all seniors at Walkersville. The students were accompanied by their environmental science teacher, Sue Faibisch, and her husband, wildlife biologist Jacob Faibisch, and alternate member John Ward. Barry Burch, a team adviser, the Frederick County Envirothon program coordinator and a member of the Maryland Envirothon steering committee, also attended the event representing the Frederick Soil Conservation District, the team’s sponsor.