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The Manitoba Forestry Association and its partners are proud to host the 25th Annual Manitoba Envirothon!

2022 Manitoba Envirothon Virtual Event

Why does the 2022 Event Span over a week?

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.

A school’s involvement will be:
● Participation in a welcome ceremony – April 7th, 2022
o Teams will be asked to submit an introductory video or photo presentation prior to.

● Participation in discipline training – April 26th-30th, 2022
o Teams can either participate in live online training sessions or request pre-recorded sessions

● Participation in the field test and orals presentation – May 3rd-10th, 2022

● Participation in a virtual closing ceremony – May 28th, 2022

● Open to both middle years and high school teams from across Manitoba.

● Students can enter as individuals, partial teams of 2-4, or a full team of 5! However, an advisor must be identified. **

● Individual and partial teams will be paired together to form full teams of 5 whenever possible.

● 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.

● Accommodations have been made for students who have access to reliable internet as well as students who are working off-line. 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).

● Both advisor and team training will be provided prior to the test in May.

**Only full teams of 5 students 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.

Important Dates to Remember

January 4: Registration opens for the 2022 Virtual MB Envirothon
January 21: Teacher/Advisor Training Session
February 12: Last Date for Registration
February 28: All Team Registration fees to be paid
March 26: Deadline for teams to submit their team introduction or photo presentations
April 7: Welcome Event, introduce team videos
April 26-30: Online Discipline Training Sessions
May 3-10: 2021 Test and Orals Presentation
May 28: Virtual Award Ceremony

What are the registration options?

Please note the following:

Each team (having 1-5 members) must have an advisor registered.
Each advisor can oversee and register a maximum of 2 teams

Teams in this category will have the opportunity to compete to represent Manitoba at the NCF-Envirothon in 2021.

Please select this option if your team has 5 members, all in grades 9-12.

Please note:
● 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 2021 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

Teams in this category will not be eligible to represent Manitoba at the NCF-Envirothon in 2021. This will be a separate competition category in terms of winning placements and prizes.

Please select this option if your team has 1-4 members, all in grades 9-12.

*Please note:
● Teams with less than 5 members will be given identical activities. There is no reduction in activities based on the number of team members.
● Partial teams will be provided an option to be placed on a list of schools with other partial teams. This list will be circulated so that advisors can contact each other to create larger teams or teams of 5.
● Partial teams, now competing as a full team of 5, will have to re-submit their registration by the registration deadline.

Note: The Middle Years category is a separate category in terms of placements and prizes.

Please select this option if your team has 1-5 members, all in grades 5-8.

**Please note:
● Teams with less than 5 members will be given identical activities. There is no reduction in activities based on the number of team members.
● Partial teams will be provided an option to be placed on a list of schools with other partial teams. This list will be circulated so that advisors can contact each other to create larger teams or teams of 5.
● Partial teams, now competing as a full team of 5, will have to re-submit their registration by the registration deadline.
● Maximum of 3 teams/school may register.

If you are interested in registering a team, please contact envirocoordinator@thinktrees.org or call us at 204.453.3182.

What are the team registration fees?

Registration fees for this year’s competition are:
● $75.00/individual team member or
● $375.00/team

REGISTER YOUR TEAM

Please use the following form to register your team(s) for this year’s competition.

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