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The goal of this art contest is to spread awareness about environmental issues we face today and encourage the creation of ideas/solutions to help solve these crises.

Judging Criteria

Submissions will be evaluated based on the participants' interest and understanding of their chosen environmental issue, creativity, technical skills, and relevance to real-world dilemmas and solutions.

Media Categories

• Visual Art: sketch, painting, digital art (judged together)

  • Illustrate a solution or scene regarding the environmental crises

• Creative writing: prose, poetry, or prose-poetry (judged together)

  • Craft a vivid depiction of the impacts and effects of environmental crises

Choose at least 1 of these 4 major environmental issues to depict in your artwork/writing:

Global Climate Change

• Over the past century, the global climate has changed drastically with temperatures reaching heights never before recorded historically. With the shrinking of ice sheets, rising sea levels, acidification of the ocean, and increasing frequency of natural disasters, our rapidly changing climate has become a major concern for safety around the world.

Pollution

• Pollution can come in various forms and devastate organisms all over the world through the introduction of harmful materials in the environment. Whether taking the form of plastics and trash in the ocean, air pollution involving greenhouse gas emissions, or land pollution of unsafely dumping toxic materials into the ground, we can all agree that pollution is shaping into a detrimental challenge regarding waste products.

Deforestation & Wildfires

• Deforestation is the overlying trend in the loss of forested areas all over the world. Covering around 30% of the entire planet’s land, forested areas are quickly disappearing. In fact, over the past three decades, the world has lost over 1.3 million square kilometers of forest. These forests are essential to our survival as well as wildlife due to a number of reasons.

Wildlife Conservation

• Throughout the past century over one million unique species have become endangered. More than ever before, wildlife species are dying out. Many of the reasons why wildlife populations have been degrading over time are due to human-related issues surrounding climate change and environmental destruction.

Age Groups

• Lower-Grade Group: K to 7th graders

• Upper-Grade Group: 8th to 12th graders

Awards

Cash awards and certificates will be rewarded to the top two winners and honorable mention for each category and each age group, a total of 12 awards.

• 1st place: $50

• 2nd place: $25

• Honorable Mention: $15

Submission

• Please submit your art or writing in the following format:

  • Title of email: Last Name, First Name, Grade, Category

  • Body of email: attached file

  • Recommended image file formats are JPEG, TIFF, and PNG and Microsoft Word, Google Docs for writing entries

• The submission deadline is September 31st, 2021 at 11:59 PM PST.

• Each participant is limited to ONE submission in each of the two categories (art & writing). Participants with more than one submission in the same category will be disqualified.

• Submission Email: ngiteampdx@gmail.com

Eligibility

You must be a student in elementary, middle, or high school to participate in this competition. Students from any state or country are eligible to participate.

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