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Kickapoo Nation students win EPA award

By Greg Bebermeyer

04/27/2020

(KNZA)--The Kickapoo Nation School's Environmental Club in Powhattan has received federal recognition.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in partnership with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, announced Thursday the Club has been awarded the President's Environmental Youth Award.

The EPA said in a news release that nationally, 35 students who worked as a team or individually on 13 projects received the award. The release said their stewardship projects, conducted in 2019, display a commitment to learning, protecting natural resources and engaging their communities in environmental protection.

EPA Region 7 Administrator Jim Gulliford said the students at the Kickapoo Nation School were creative in addressing environmental challenges in their community. He said their creativity earned recognition through the EPA Harmful Algae Blooms Video Challenge for their video about the dangers of HAB's. In addition to five short films, they planted 160 trees to stabilize a riverbank, planted native milkweed to create a butterfly migration weigh station and educated their community about the importance of protecting water quality.

The Kickapoo Nation School's Environmental Club consist of 9 members.

The President's Environmental Youth Award program has recognized outstanding community-level environmental projects by K-12 youth for almost 50 years.

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