Bright Award Winners for Environmental Youth Awards
The EPA honors young innovators from across the country with President's Environmental Youth Awards. Winners exhibit bright ideas and outstanding programs that protect the environment and promote sustainability.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Protect the Terrapin Becomes Barrington Town Emblem
Fifth grader Kate McCalmont urged town pride by highlighting the diamondback terrapin as Barrington RI’s official animal. She created a terrapin exhibit, sold Protect the Terrapin T-shirts to fund research, and circulated petitions in local schools to engage peers.
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Kate McCalmont
Barrington
R.I
Kate
Fourth graders spark state fish push in New Jersey
The Brook Trout Bunch from Hopatcong Middle School aimed to promote habitat protection after learning brook trout, New Jersey’s state fish, are sensitive to environmental changes. With Trout Unlimited they created a classroom tank to raise and release brook trout fry, tying the effort to wilderness protection.
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James Florio
Hopatcong Middle School
New Jersey
Hopatcong
N.J
Trout Unlimited
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