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WORLDWIDE BOW SEAT OCEAN AWARENESS STUDENT CONTEST ($1,000 CASH PRIZE).

Application Deadline: June 10, 2024

LOCATION: USA

The 2024 Ocean Awareness Contest – Tell Your Climate Story – encourages you to become a climate witness and share your own unique climate story. They are asking you to creatively express your personal experiences, insights, or perceptions about our changing climate reality. Use this opportunity to learn about the climate crisis and how it impacts your family and community, and to examine your individual responses to our evolving world. The Contest deadline is June 10, 2024.

ELIGIBILITY:

Students ages 11-18 from around the world are invited to participate in the Ocean Awareness Contest. Enter the division based on your age at the time of entry:

Junior Division: Age 11-14

Senior Division: Age 15-18

Students can participate as an individual or as a club, class, or group of any size. All students must provide the contact information for an Adult Sponsor (teacher, parent, mentor, etc.) Students who have started college or university are not eligible to participate in the Contest.

Submissions are accepted in:

Visual Art: Handcrafted

Visual Art: Digital

Poetry & Spoken Word

Creative Writing

Film

Performing Arts: Music & Dance

Interactive & Multimedia

Please review all submission requirements carefully. 

BENEFIT:

Join Bow Seat’s global community of over 30,000 young people who care about the ocean, environmental justice, and climate action, and contribute to the largest youth environmental arts collection in the world

Be eligible for special opportunities, like the Future Blue Youth Council. Past program participants also serve as Bow Seat interns and Contest judges!

Earn cash awards of up to $1,000!

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PHOTOGRAPHY 4 HUMANITY GLOBAL PRIZE COMPETITION

Application Deadline: 1 August, 2024

LOCATION: South Korea

SEEKING THE BEST CLIMATE JUSTICE PHOTOGRAPHY

The 2024 Global Contest promotes climate justice. We believe climate change is a human rights issue, so we are looking for images that show people impacted by the escalating climate crisis. They include climate refuges, the very young, the very old, the disabled and injured, the poor, indigenous and island people, and women. Images of climate champions advocating for change, and those helping to mitigate and reverse climate change are welcome. The 2024 Photography 4 Humanity Global Prize Competition is now open.

ELIGIBILITY:

You must be at least 18 years of age or older to enter. Entry is free.

All entries must be submitted between Feb 1, 2024 12:00PM EST and August 1, 2024 12:00PM PST

All photography must relate to people being impacted by climate change, and/or people trying to reverse and/or mitigate climate change

Must include photographer name, title, date, location and description of each photograph submitted

All images must have been taken within between August 1, 2023 and August 1, 2024

BENEFIT:

The 2024 Global Prize Recipient will receive $5,000 USD

The Global Prize Recipient, top 10 Finalists and 20 Honorable Mentions will be exhibited globally on December 10, 2024 – via UN.org.

The Global Prize Recipient, top 10 Finalists, and  20 Honorable mentions will then have their work help open the 2025 Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit hosted by  the University of Oxford on June 5, 2025 – UN World Environment Day.

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