Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs (Bow Seat) fill announced the winners of the 2020 Ocean Awareness Contest, a world arts opponents that engages childhood in creatively raising awareness of and advocating for environmental considerations impacting the planet.
The 2020 Contest theme, “Local weather Hope: Remodeling Crisis,” challenged participants to develop a bit that shares their solutions for confronting the local weather emergency and emphasizes the role of hope in making meaningful change. Roughly 5,300 college students from 92 countries and 49 U.S. states replied with paintings, poems, songs, documentaries, multimedia, and tales that highlighted renewable vitality sources, technological improvements, and nature-primarily primarily primarily based alternatives, as well to tangible private actions that participants can adopt in their everyday lives.
Protesting also emerged as a foremost theme amongst pupil entries, and hundreds of participants addressed the connections between local weather change and crises including the COVID-19 pandemic and social injustice.
The Senior Division (ages 15-18) Gold Award winners, who every bought a US$1,500 (~1263 Euros) award, are:
Artwork – Jingyi Yang (Washington)
Film – Yonah Sadeh (Connecticut)
Interactive & Multimedia – Rose Whelan (Pennsylvania)
Tune – Zanaiah Billups (Georgia)
Poetry – Elane Kim (California)
Prose – Minseo Kim (Australia)
The Junior Division (ages 11-14) Gold Award winners, who every bought a $1,000 (~842 Euros) award, are:
Artwork – Ahrin Lee (Singapore)
Film – Cassiana Silva Younger (Canada)
Interactive & Multimedia – Zuzanna Witek & Angela Lato? (Poland)
Tune – Salome Agbaroji (California)
Poetry – Nuan Ning Teioh (Malaysia)
Prose – Carly Liao (California)
As effectively as, the contemporary $1,500 Disclose of the Sea Award, which recognizes a great Spoken Observe submission, used to be supplied to Abigia Debebe from Ethiopia.
Check out the overall 2020 Ocean Awareness Contest winners at bowseat.org.
(Image credit: Jingyi Yang, Mercer Island, WA)
