2009 KANSAS ECO-MEETS

2009 State Winners Announced!

2009 Regional Winners

Past State Winners

Teacher/Coach Awards at Regionals

Our sponsors

Kansas ECO-MEET Home page

The
ECO-MEET
Mission

"To challenge and inspire an interest, appreciation and understanding of the natural sciences and the Kansas environment thru interscholastic competition."

Teacher/Coach Awards given at Regional Events!

A new incentive for 2009 ECO-Meet team coaches was a donation from the Kansas Wildscape Foundation and the Wildlife Education Services section of the Kansas Dept. of Wildlife & Parks to fund two $250 awards at every ECO-Meet regional competition. The names of the coaches that brought students to each regional ECO-Meet were put in a hat, with two chances to win. The winners each received a $175 gift certificate from Acorn Naturalists (a biological supply and reference material company) and a choice of field guide/reference books (up to a $75 value) from the University Press of Kansas. Since one regional event was cancelled, a drawing was held for the coaches at the State event who had not won at a regional event and two awards were made there too!

Here are the winning coaches from each event:

Wilson

Kelsie Harmon – Ellinwood High School and London Reif – Hoisington High School

Hays/Webster

Richard Robinson – Palco High School and Jessica Bender – Garden City High School

Milford

Mark Mohler – Wakefield High School and Kathy Crawford – Valley Heights High School

Salina

Carol Strathe – Salina Central High School and Donna O'Neill – Goessel HS

Wichita

Abbie Herring – Kapaun/Mt. Carmel High School and Marylee Ramsey – Goddard High School

Hutchinson

Steve Duff – Haven High School and Nancy McNay – Pratt High School

Southeast Kansas

Donna Maus – St. Mary’s/Colgan High School and Amanda Ford – Uniontown High School

Olathe

Rene Gloshen – Olathe South High School and Rusty DeBay – Shawnee Mission East High School

State ECO-Meet at Ft. Larned

Karen Madorin – Ellis High School and Donna Cooper – Hays High School

REGIONAL ECO-MEETS:

Eight regional ECO-MEETs were held in the run-up to the state competition.
Location and contact information for these events is on the Kansas ECO-MEET home page.

Click on these links to see who won at the regional events.

(A link to the list of former winners of each regional event is at the bottom of each regional page.)

STATE ECO-MEET:

The 2009 Kansas ECO-MEET was held on
Thursday November 5 at Ft. Larned National Historic Site.

94 students from 22 schools statewide competed for top honors
in team and individual events!

Here are the winners from the 2009 Kansas ECO-MEET!

1st place team - Blue Valley North High School

2nd place team - Wakefield High School

3rd place team - Kapaun/Mt. Carmel High School

Herpetology

	1st place - Ian Staudenmyer of Blue Valley North High School
	2nd place - Cort Mohler of Wakefield High School

Tallgrass Prairie Habitats

	1st place - Cort Mohler of Wakefield High School
	2nd place - Olivia Cowin of Blue Valley North High School

We would like to recognize our sponsors:

	Barton County Community College - Great Bend
	Clock Realty - Larned
	Doerr's Ace Hardware - Larned
	Friends of Quivira National Wildlife Refuge - Stafford
	Friends Group of the Milford Nature Center - Junction City
	Goodwin Sporting Goods - Hays
	H & B Communications - Holyrood
	Kansas WILDSCAPE Foundation - Lawrence
	KDWP - Wildlife Education Service - Pratt
	Manweiler Chevrolet - Hoisington
	Marelcy - Hutchinson
	Mid-America Awards - Salina

	Nex-Tech - Hays
	Owl's Nest Campground & Champions Car Wash - Junction City
	Rolling Hills Electric Co-op Association - Mankato & Ellsworth
	Pawnee County Co-op Association - Larned
	Simpson Farm Enterprises - Ransom
	Ward Feed Yard - Larned

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