Seaworld/Busch Gardens/ Fuji Film Environmental Excellence Award

St. Paul High School's Team Estonoa has recently been notified that it is to be the recipient of another prestigious national award.  The Wetlands Estonoa Project is one of eight national winners in the 2004 Sea World/Busch Gardens/Fuji 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 heir winning project to a panel of nationally recognized environmental specialists.  Each winning group will also receive a Fiji Film digital camera, 100 T-shirt 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 members 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 Award 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, and Fuji Films.

http://www.seaworld.org/conservation-matters/eea/2004/index.htm