Opportunities From: Mecklenburg County Volunteer Program

**This is an educational event**

In this virtual training, participants will learn about aquatic ecology. This presentation will examine biotic and abiotic components of freshwater systems, food webs, and the identification of native species. This will be an excellent training to get students ready for Envirothon and to expand their knowledge of aquatic ecology.

During this training, we will be playing a game through Blookit! There will be a pre- and post-game, so please have Blookit pulled up in your browser at the start of the training (https://www.blooket.com/). When you get to the main page, you’ll click ‘Join a Game’. Audrey Sykes-Meyer will share the Game ID during the meeting. 

Meeting Link: TDB, link will also be sent via email the week before the event.

The Envirothon Program is sponsored by the NC Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts. The Envirothon Competition is an annual environmental competition for middle and high school students. Students compete in teams of 5 to test their knowledge of the natural environment. The students rotate between the following five resource stations (Aquatic ecology, Current Environmental Issues, Forestry, Soils/land use, and Wildlife) where they will be given a written test. Questions are answered as a team.

Volunteers will help to remove trash from Long Creek and Dixon Branch.

The best way to show love for your community this Valentine's Day is to help make it better!

This event is a TRIFECTA Cleanup in partnership with Keep Charlotte Beautiful and Park & Recreation! Volunteers will be tackling Camp Greene Park, surrounding streets, and the stream by removing litter.

At the start of this event, you can choose to clean up the park grounds, walk the surrounding streets, or cover the stream and its banks.

Tree maintenance involves caring for trees planted in floodplains to help with stream stability and to provide habitat. During this event, we will be removing invasive plants, pruning, and mulching.

We recommend wearing shoes and clothes you dont mind getting dirty

During this event, we will be marking storm drains with small educational placards to let people passing by know that Only Rain Goes Down the Drain. These Storm drain markers help prevent pollution in our streams through education!

During this event, volunteers will be given a map of an area to mark drains. They will use our new Storm Drain Marking Application through Quick Capture to document drains that are marked and drains that may need repairs. Volunteers should expect to walk or drive 1-3 miles during this event.