Student Career Days competition How to score: |
Can you rattle off plants’ botanical and common names? And spell them correctly to boot? Whether you learned the technical side of the green industry from text books or on the fly in the early days of your business, at some point you learned to identify pests and plants out in the field. (Or maybe you hired someone who can!)
At PLANET’s Student Career Days event, which takes place every spring, green industry college students compete in ID competitions – and other events equipment operations, cost estimating and more.
We drew inspiration from these student competitions to create our “Are you smarter than a landscape student?” quizzes. This month: annual and perennial plant ID.
Did you beat this year’s student winners in the annual and perennial plant ID competition? They are:
1. Chattahoochee Technical College’s CassieTempleton 87.50
2. North Carolina State University’s Katie Pound 87
3. Chattahoochee Technical College’s Cheryl Gress 83.50
4. Penn State’s Margaret Hoffman 83
5. Columbus State Community College’s Amanda Boggs 82.50
6. University of Maryland’s Todd Colvin 81.50
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