Students enjoy learning
Although only five projects were chosen out of 25 submissions at the Meduxnekeag Environmental Showcase on Thursday, several students said they enjoyed participating and learned a lot of information about animals and the environment.
Canterbury High School Grade 4 student Tressa Ritchie said through her research on deer she learned people are creating deer feeders to minimize the deer population.
"If there are too many deer, all the plants will be gone and then all the deer will die," she explained.
Grade 2 student of Hartland Community School Darren McCready, who submitted a project on the beaver, said the animal's sweat secretes an oil which makes its fur waterproof.
From Debec, Grade 3 student Shanice Costain said the raccoon doesn't have many friends, but sometimes humans help them. She said they have a lot of enemies, including bobcats, wolves and even hunters.
"I learned raccoons are a cousin of the bear," she said. "And they can also make a good pet if they're trained when they're young."
Jordan Green, a Grade 2 student at Woodstock Centennial Elementary School, completed his project on garter snakes.
"I kinda thought it was interesting because I'm surprised that they do eat other snakes, and I'm surprised that they can swim on water."
Kamryn Saulis submitted her project in French on les tetes de violon – fiddleheads. The Grade 3 Southern Carleton Elementary School student said she learned that Maliseet people produced medicine from the plant, although she was unsure of what ailment the medicine was used to cure. Kamryn painted a picture of two fiddleheads and donated the painting to the Meduxnekeag River Association.
The top 25 projects were chosen from over 400 submissions from five area schools. The 25 projects were judged on Thursday evening, and five submissions, completed by six students, were chosen for top honours.
The Bugle-Observer sponsored this year's Meduxnekeag Environmental Showcase.
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