A Palmerton Area High School team won this year’s Carbon County Envirothon, which was held last week at The Carbon County Environmental Education Center.

The team is eligible to compete in the state Envirothon May 21 in Windber Park, in Johnstown.

Franklin Klock, CCEEC naturalist, said the event was held early so that teams would have more time to plan for state level competition.

The nature competition for students in second through eighth grades will be held in May.

First place was Hagfish V.4 of Palmerton High School.

Another Palmerton team, the Environmental Gentlemen, took second place.

Third place was the Palmerton Smart Sharks.

The Carbon Copies from Panther Valley took fourth place, followed by two other Panther Valley teams and then Weatherly.

The competition included five stations: aquatics, forestry, soil, wildlife, and roots and resiliency.

In the event, high school students are tested on common knowledge questions and are not allowed to use a phone or camera.

Younger students can use a clipboard and a pencil. The younger students are judged on a 10-minute speech.