1998-99 National Solar Design Contest
Fifth annnual competition for cash prizes, open to US students. Applications due April 30, 1999. Sponsored by Potomac Region Solar Energy Association.
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Award Programs - NAHEE Popular!
The National Association for Humane and Environmental Education offers annual awards to a teacher, classroom and children's book author.
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Bonus.com's Earth Day Celebration
Beginning Feb. 13th, teachers and classrooms will be invited to solve four interactive puzzles on the environment and submit original slogans about how we can help our world. Winning slogans will be turned into professionally rendered banners and previewed in Bonus.com as public service announcements during Earth Day month in April.
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Earth Day Challenge
A contest for elementary students. Access the questions on this page, and send in the answers for a chance to win prizes. Organized by Hazel Jobe-Web, an internet-savvy teacher in Tennessee.
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Federal Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design
Enter this stamp design contest for your state. Prizes include cash, and a visit to Washington DC for winners *and their art teacher).
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National Envirothon
An annual competition for high school students throughout North America. Designed as a way to teach kids about environmental education, the best teams from 45 states and Canadian provinces come compete at a summer play-off.
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President's Environmental Youth Awards
Program available to individuals, classes, and youth groups. Awards are presented in each of the EPA regions, and one project from each region is presented with a national award in Washington DC.
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River of Words
an environmental poetry and art contest for K-12 students. From the International
Rivers Network. Entries must be postmarked by February 15.
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Sea World-Busch Gardens Environmental Excellence Awards
Awards for student-driven projects that offer creative solutions to environmental problems. Eight awards yearly; deadline is January 29, 1999.
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Secretary's Award for Excellence in Environmental Education
In recognition of Earth Day ... "We encourage applications from [Massachusets] teachers, students or classrooms which have planned,
designed, and/or implemented environmental education programs for K-12." Deadline March 1, 1999.
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Starfish Reef Builders Ltd.
This project involves schools, non-profits, and dive clubs in restorating marine habitats with artificial reef modules ("reef balls"). One approach uses student's sales of T-shirts to fund reef balls and school projects. Over 40,000 REEF BALLS tm in eight oceans of the world so far.
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Stockholm Junior Water Prize
to engage and stimulate youth in water-environment issues regionally, nationally and internationally.
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Sustainable Transportation - Student Competitions
Descriptions of a dozen competitions open to students that build and race alternative energy vehicles. From the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association.
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ThinkQuest
A collaborative internet-based contest for 12 - 19 year old students in many countries. Awards total over $1,000,000. The site includes links to entrant's web pages, which are models of public education on a broad array of topics.
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World Population Film/Video Festival
"International competition for
college and secondary students to encourage critical thought
and self-expression regarding population growth, resource
consumption, the environment." Entry deadline is June 15, 1999. Best-of-Festival videos from previous competitions are available ast this site.
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