Penn State EnvironMentors team wins first place in national competition
Bryttani Wooten, an undergraduate student at Penn State, serves as a mentor to high school students through the EnvironMentors program. Wooten and her mentees won first prize in June at the EnvironMentors National Science Fair held in Washington, D.C. IMAGE: PENN STATE
Kevin Sliman krs150@psu.edu
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A team of Penn State faculty, students and local high schoolers took first place at the 2019 EnvironMentors National Science Fair held last week in Washington, D.C.
EnvironMentors is a national program sponsored by the National Council for Science and the Environment that pairs university faculty and undergraduate students with underrepresented high schoolers who want to gain research experience before college.
Bryttani Wooten, an undergraduate in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, and two high school mentees won the poster competition for their work on a project to monitor air quality in West Africa.
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Penn State EnvironMentors team wins first place in national competition