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

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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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WAYFINDER SOCIETY STUDENT MINI GRANTS

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Application Deadline: April 15, 2024, 5 pm PT

LOCATION: USA

Get funding for your projects and education! These mini-grants are available to students looking for financial support for their personal education, school and community projects, internships, networking events, etc. connected to addressing the plastic crisis. This grant must be applied to your education, projects, or other efforts related to addressing the plastic problem.

ELIGIBILITY:

To be eligible to apply for a Wayfinder Society Student Mini-Grant, you need to:

Our Student Mini-Grants are open to applicants anywhere in the world! 

Be between the ages of 11-25 on the application deadline,

Have an individual account (or student account through your teacher) on Wayfinder Society

Have successfully completed these 2 Actions: The Story of Plastic – Watch the Film and The Story of Plastic – System Mapping by following the instructions and completing the form at the bottom of the page.

Be dedicated to ending plastic pollution in your classroom, school, community, or beyond.  

We do not discriminate against its applicants based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

BENEFIT:

In 2024, Wayfinder will award a total of $15,000 USD through this program!

Each winner will also receive:

Social media coverage on Algalita’s social media channels.

The opportunity to contribute to a blog post on the Wayfinder Society website.

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