This event will be absolutely FREE for our Envirothon teams and advisors. Lunch is also included! Schools will be responsible for any travel costs associated with attending this event.

This event will focus on all five Manitoba Envirothon disciplines: Aquatic Ecology, Plant & Forest Ecology, Soils & Geology, Wildlife Ecology, and the 2022 Theme Environmental Awareness. All activities will include hands-on experiences as well as will draw on student Envirothon expertise. 

The In-Person Celebration will be a very active, physical day with the majority of the day spent outside. All participants must dress for the weather which includes sunscreen, bugspray, and Band-Aids. All participants MUST wear closed-toed shoes. Please reach out if there are any mobility needs to be accommodated. Additional waiver forms from FortWhyte Alive may be needed closer to the event. 

Currently, all participants must be double-vaxxed to attend. However, we will monitor updated Provincial health regulations and keep teams posted on this. 

Students with 1-2 members may be paired up with another partial team. The combined team will have no more than 5 students. The group will compete as a single team.

Teams with 3-4 members can compete within their partial team or choose to be paired with another partial team to create a team of 5.

However, only teams consisting of 5 team members from the same school, non-traditional school, or youth organization will be eligible to represent Manitoba at the 2022 NCF-Envirothon, as per NCF-Envirothon Rules and Regulations. https://envirothon.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/NCFE_Rules_and_Regulations_Sept.17.2019-Revised.pdf

Our goal is to be inclusive of all learning situations. If a team of students is competing off-line, they will be provided with pre-recorded training sessions, a paper-pen field test, and the option to present the Orals competition though an audio source (telephone).

The Manitoba Envirothon is making many accommodations for our schools. These accommodations include but are not limited to:
● Inclusion options such as accommodating 1-4 team members from a school
● Accommodating off-line participation
● Ensuring hands-on learning as a priority
● Content is focused and reduced
● Specialized teacher training will be held to help our teachers navigate a virtual event

The middle years program is very similar to the regular Manitoba Envirothon. However, reduced content will be given to middle years students with an even greater focus on hands-on materials.

Middle years students will abide by the same registration options (number of students on a team, on or off-line participation).

The longer event is to accommodate completing the field test and orals competition. This year the test will be an open book test based on the regional resource materials for each discipline. Teams will have a week to complete both their written test and orals presentation

Our Steering Committee is working hard to develop winning categories based on the accommodations we are giving to teams this year. We will announce the prize categories as soon as possible.

**Only full teams of 5 students from the same school, non-traditional school or youth organization will be eligible to represent Manitoba at the 2021 NCF-Envirothon as per NCF-Envirothon Rules and Regulations.

Teams will study 5 topic areas: Aquatic Ecology, Forest and Plant Ecology, Soils and Geology, Wildlife Ecology and a current Theme.

Students will focus their studies on the Regional Resources and associated materials provided by the Manitoba Envirothon Steering Committee.  These resources can be found under Study Resources below.

These pages also include links to multimedia training and instructional videos, all the past Field Tests and Orals Challenges.

Each of the 4 core topic areas (Aquatic Ecology, Forest and Plant Ecology, Soils and Geology, and Wildlife Ecology) contain a resource entitled “Document”. There is also a list of each topics Envirothon Learning Outcomes. Read these outcomes and ensure that you understand and can complete each one because these Outcomes are testable. For Regionals concentrate on the study resources noted: * *

Outcomes for the theme are listed on the Theme Resources page.
All study materials can be found under Study Resources below.

The Manitoba Envirothon Rules and Procedure document can provide you with more details about the regional and provincial competitions.