Disappearing Wetlands Student Argonaut candidate, Karoline Evin
McMullen, a student at Hawken School, was awarded $10,000 from the Sea
World/Fujifilm Environmental Excellence program for her work to save
the brook trout of the Chagrin River. She will receive this award in
Orlando, Florida in April. This is just one of several awards or
special recognition Evin has earned for her efforts to improve the
conditions in the river. She has taken on this project on her own
time and has enlisted the aid of eight of her Hawken school friends.
On March 15th, Evin will make a presentation regarding her
environmental mission to participants in the Cleveland Heights Math
and Science night.
Because of her work to raise awareness of the river quality in her own
community and beyond, Evin was invited to make a presentation to
representatives of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources at their
conference this past fall. She was recently awarded a grant from the
Ohio Division of Wildlife to write a book for elementary school
students on the native Ohio brook trout. We will look forward to
securing a copy when she completes the project in 2006.
We are proud to have Evin on the JASON Advisory Council and as a
student member of the JASON teacher professional development team.
Congratulations and continued good wishes, Evin.
