Press Releases
Voices That Challenge
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On Tuesday August 5th, 2003 Jessica Domby and Heather Hamilton of Team Estonoa hosted individuals from Voices that Challenge. Voices that Challenge is a youth group involving both high school and college students from the Outerbanks of North Carolina. Following the Power Point presentation the team escorted the visitors around the wetlands giving them an interpretive guide. By Heather Hamilton
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New Team of Students
| As a new school year begins at St. Paul High School, a
new team of students will be working together to help with Estonoa. These
students will work on upcoming projects throughout the year. The major
project for the 2003-2004 school year is the learning center, which will provide
a place for the students and the community to gather and learn about the
wetlands and the environment. The construction of the building should
begin in early fall, with a projected date of completion in mid-winter.
Team Estonoa expects to accomplish many projects this year. Team Estonoa
for the school year of 2003-2004 includes, left to right, front row, Jackie
Kiser, Heather Hamilton, Kara Kelly, Sarah Hamilton, Tabitha Bush, Chelsea
Salyer, and Ashley Zeigler; back row, Aaron Helbert, Jason Boone, Tracy Frazier,
and Terry Vencil. By Ashley Zeigler
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Sea World/Busch Gardens/Fiji Film Environmental Excellence Award
| St. Paul High School teacher and Team
Estonoa advisor Terry Vencil has been notified that the Wetlands Estonoa Project
has been selected as one of eight winners in the 2004 Sea World/Busch
Gardens/Fiji Film Environmental Excellence Awards competition. SPHS was one of
117 schools nationwide which submitted project reports from which the eight
winners were chosen. Each of the eight national winners will receive $10,000 and a trip for the project advisor plus three students to San Diego, California, in April, where they will present a program on their winning project to a panel of nationally recognized environmental specialists. Each winning group will also receive a Fujifilm digital camera, 100 T-shirts to share with school and community partners, a trophy, and certificates for every participant in the winning project. Team Estonoa members drew names to see which three would accompany Vencil to California. The winners were Tabitha Bush, Sarah Hamilton, and Heather Hamilton. According to Vencil the $10,000 prize money will be added to the landscape fund for the proposed Estonoa Learning Center, for which Team Estonoa has been awarded construction and furnishing grants totaling $137,600. The Environmental Excellence Awards program began in 1993, and during the past 10 years, projects at more than 100 schools in 35 states/territories have been awarded one million dollars by the sponsors, Sea World/Busch Gardens/Fijifilm. This year the competition was expanded to include community groups which are actively involved in improving the environment. |