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"CONCIENCIA" 2025

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We are pleased to announce the third edition of “Awareness.” This competition is aimed at children and youth from preschool to high school and seeks to encourage reflection and action on crucial issues focused on caring for our “common home,” inspired this school year by Pope Francis's encyclical “Laudato Si.” Awareness not only aims to raise awareness but also to highlight the importance of science and creativity in addressing these challenges, such as global warming. We invite all institutions to take part in this important mission and motivate their students to be part of the change and showcase their talent. Through this competition, science and creativity can come together to tackle environmental challenges.

Participate and use your scientific ingenuity to build a more sustainable future!

Category: HIGH SCHOOL
Competition: Water Scarcity: A Look Toward the Future

Format: Hybrid

Objective:
To raise community awareness of the importance of water conservation, inspired by the principles of the encyclical “Laudato Si”, illustrating how water scarcity affects humanity and the environment while fostering an ethical and ecological awareness that encourages responsible action in preserving this vital non-renewable resource.

Participants:
Students must be between 15 and 19 years old, in high school, and guided and monitored by a teacher.

• High School Students (Grades 1, 2, and 3): Direct creators of the project.

• Project Leaders: Exclusively participate as promoters, advisors, and leaders in the project’s development.

Implementation and Requirements:

• Proposal: The video should convey a brief and clear message about water scarcity awareness.

• Narrative: The narrative should reflect the human impact of water scarcity and relate this issue to “Laudato Si”. (It is recommended to tell an emotionally resonant story, such as the experience of an affected person or community.)

• Images and Scenes: Include shots of people interacting with water in ways that emphasize its importance, as well as scenes of areas where water is scarce, like rivers, lakes, dams, etc.

• Message: Communicate the urgency of the problem and the importance of conserving the resource, using images that contrast abundance with scarcity.

• Include APA references.

Evaluation Criteria:

• Creativity: Originality in video creation (format, editing, MP4 format).

• Content: Sufficient and specific information derived from research.

• Relation to Laudato Si: Appropriately connected to the Laudato Si encyclical, making it implicitly reflective.

• Environmental Message: How the project raises and impacts the audience's awareness.

• Duration: The video must last between one minute and a maximum of one minute and twenty seconds.

Participation Requirements: To avoid schedule conflicts and encourage participation and the discovery of new talents:

• Each participating institution may present up to three projects.

• For each project, the designated leader must complete and submit the appropriate category form.

REGISTRATION FORM

• Teams must be composed of three people.

• Student collaboration is mandatory for valid participation in the creation of the work.

Awards:

• Recognition will be awarded to the first, second, and third places in this category.

Schedule:

• Opening of the Call: November 29th, 2024

• Registration Deadline (form submission): March 21st, 2025

• Project Presentation (Hybrid): April 4th, 2025 for High School

• Awards Ceremony: April 4th  for High School

Don’t miss the chance to be part of the change and showcase your talent. 

Participate, and together let’s build a more sustainable future!