Christina Nelson

The honored recipient was LVHS senior Christina Nelson of Purcellville.  Christina is an A + student in environmental science.  She is president of Loudoun Valley’s Environmental Club and has helped coordinate activities such as trail maintenance, bluebird monitoring and bluebird box repair and creating environmental movie night.  Christina is also an accomplished artist and has created  many works about animals. She won the state Scholastic Art and Writing Gold Key award for painting of running Zebra. She has received the Loudoun Valley  Roger Tory Peterson award for  her excellence in field notebook journaling.  She also won the NATGEN’s 2013  poster award on Water quality.   Christina has been accepted to VA TECH where she will major in Wildlife Science with a possible double major in art.  Her hope is  to become an environmental science teacher.