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CREEC Network

California Regional Environmental Education Community

Student Opportunities and Contests

Scholarship Opportunity for High School Seniors
Deadline: March 15, 2008

Each year, the California Water Awareness Campaign grants two scholarship awards in the amount of $2,500 each to graduating high school, junior college students and students attending a 4-year institution who exhibit an interest, or are actively pursuing a
career in the water industry!

Each winner will receive a check for $2,500 made out to the name of the chosen institution. The award can be used for tuition or the purchase of books and class materials.

Applicant must be a California resident.

• High School, Junior College and/or College transcripts
• Two letters of recommendation

For more information read the Water Scholarship Flyer and the Water Scholarship Application.

The Art Miles Shoes of Hope

This evolved from the Art Miles Mural Project and is getting kids across the U.S. to foster awareness of global warming by painting shoes with messages about what they're doing to stop global warming and sending them to kids in developing countries. It's very easy for you or your group, school, club, or organization to participate in the shoe project.

Recycle Rex Challenge

Deadline to Apply:  March 15, 2008

Collect as many California Redemption Value (CRV) beverage containers from December 15th, 2007 - March 15th, 2008. Collect aluminum and plastic CRV beverage containers from home, school, your neighbors or even have your class organize a recycling drive for your entire school!  Ask a parent or teacher to take your CRV beverage containers to your local recycling center and track the amount you recycle.   Send your completed and totaled official Recycle Rex Challenge Forms by March 30, 2008. Winners will be announced on Earth Day (April 22nd, 2008).  Open to all California elementary school classes, kindergarten through 6th grade.  Sponsored by the Department of Conservation.

Backyard Wildlife Habitats

The National Wildlife Federation's Backyard Wildlife Habitat provides resources for students interested in creating or restoring wildlife habitat on their school grounds. For other great ideas about school and community projects, check out Kidzone.

Teen Ink:  Environmental Solutions Contest

No Deadline

Do your teenage students have a creative plan to stop pollution?  Have they found a way to encourage recycling in your neighborhood?  They can share ideas to solve an environmental problem or describe a current solution.  Every month one teen is honored for the best Environmental Solutions article.  Essays are published in Teen Ink magazine and contest winners receive $25 and a copy of the magazine featuring their environmental solution.  Teen Ink will only consider original essays written by teens.  Essays should be between 150 and 1,000 words.  Possible topics include global warming, clean water, species preservation, air quality, the rain forest, alternative power, depletion of resources and more!

ExploraVision

Deadline to Apply:  January 29, 2008

ExploraVision is a competition for students of all interest, skill, and ability levels in grades K-12.  The purpose of the competition is to encourage students to combine their imaginations with the tools of science to create and explore a vision of a future technology.

Students work in groups of two to four, simulating Research and Development teams, along with a team coach and an optional mentor.  Each team selects a technology, or an aspect of a technology, that is present in the home, school, and/or community or any other technology relevant to their lives.  All inventions and innovations result from creative thinking and problem solving.

California Coastal Art & Poetry Contest

Deadline to Apply:  January 31, 2008

The California Coastal Commission invites California students in kindergarten through 12th grade to submit artwork or poetry with a California coastal or marine theme to the annual Coastal Art & Poetry Contest. Up to eight winners will be selected to win $100 gift certificates to an art supply* or book store, and each winner's sponsoring teacher will receive a $40 gift certificate for educational supplies. Students may have their work featured on Commission webpages and materials. Entries must be postmarked by January 31, 2007 to be eligible for this year's contest. For rules and entry form, visit www.coastforyou.org, email coast4u@coastal.ca.gov, or call (800) Coast-4U.

Igniting Creative Energy National Student Challenge

Deadline to Apply:  January 31, 2008

The Igniting Creative Energy Challenge is an educational competition designed to encourage students to learn more about energy conservation and the environment.  Entries must reflect the theme �Igniting Creative Energy� and demonstrate an understanding of what an individual, family or group can do to make a difference in their home or community.  Students may express their ideas in the form of science projects, essays, stories, artwork, photographs, music, video, or website projects.  They may also submit recent service projects or results from Energy Patrol activities.

River of Words Art and Poetry Contest

Deadline:  February 15, 2008

River of Words is an international environmental poetry and art contest on the theme of watersheds.  The contest is open to youth ages 5-19.  The contest is designed to help youth explore the natural and cultural history of the place they live, and to express, through poetry and art, what they discover.





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