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Home Our MountainsJane Pratt and Jed Shilling Blue Ridge Education AwardChristina Nelson

Christina Nelson

On Thursday night, May 29, 2014 at Loudoun Valley High School’s “Evening of Honors” the Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains presented the first annual “Jane Pratt Blue Ridge Mountains Education Award.” 

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.

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Peter Weeks, FBRM Board member; Liam McGranaghan, LVHS Teacher of Environmental Studies; Christina Nelson, recipient; Jed Shilling, FBRM Board member. Photo by Joyce Gates.

 

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