Jason Donovan

Donovan's winning "Midland's Watershed Protection Program," is part of a pond ecology project. The program will impart concepts of conservation biology that support the schools value of investing energy in actively caring for people and the environment. The 40 acres of wetlands and woodland that the school sits on accumulates trash from adjacent roads, apartments and local businesses. Through this program, students will be involved in restoring and cleaning up the local habitat. Additionally, students will learn about the flora and fauna of Kansas by studying the wetland's plants and animals. The chemistry students will take water samples from the pond on campus to measure salinity, nitrate, nitrite, phosphate, acidity, alkalinity, carbon dioxide, dissolved oxygen and hardness. The findings will be shared with the biology class where students will instruct why some plants or animals can or cannot exist in the watershed region. This program will help illustrate how the science community works together to solve issues. Donovan, a science teacher, resides in Lenexa.