Nature’s Voice-Our Choice
Announces our 4th Annual World Water Day
Student’s Give Water a Voice Competition
2011 theme: Water Change in your Community
This contest is open to students from around the world.
Poster, literary and video submissions are welcom
We hear about climate change in the news every day. But what we don’t hear about is changing water -- either too much or too little! Some communities experience heavy rainfall and extreme flooding; while others face a chronic need to find more water as local sources are running dry. Some are even seeing their communities disappear due to rising seas.
Nature’s Voice-Our Choice (NVOC) invites students around the world to bring this problem to light for community members and lawmakers, showing that ‘we all say climate change but what we feel is water change.’ To participate, we hope educators will take time to work with students to study how climate change, deforestation, rising populations and over-use are changing their water supplies. Students are urged to submit drawings/paintings, creative narratives/poems, or videos, highlighting the impact of changing water resources on their local communities. For more information on ways to explore this topic with your students, visit our website at http://www.nv-oc.org
Submissions will be organized by medium (visual, literary, or video) and by age level (ages 8-12 and 13-18). A team of judges will select two winners from each group, basing their evaluations on visual message and impact (weighted at 40%), representation of the theme (50%), and artistic ability (10%).
Two winners (one national and one international) will be selected from each age group and each form of media. Prizes will be made up of art supplies, books, or video equipment, depending on the type of submission. Winners will be announced on our website and contacted directly on Earth Day, April 22nd.
Guidelines:
All submissions must be original and created by the students.
Drawings or paintings should be done on 8.5 x 11 inch paper or A4 paper.
Literary entries may be handwritten or typed and should be no longer than 500 words.
Video entries should be submitted in VHS or DVD form and no longer than 3 minutes.
Video entries must be original; slideshow videos with text over copied photos will not be accepted.
In the past, we accepted submissions with a global theme; this year, only entries that reflect the water situation in the students’ community will be selected as finalists.
All entries must be clearly labeled with:
Student Name:
City, State:
Country:
Contact phone number or email:
*All submissions will become the property of Nature’s Voice-Our Choice, with credit given to the student for creation of the material. Submissions will be used in educational campaigns to increase awareness of the need for water conservation and preservation. Due to the large quantity of entries, we regret that we will not be able to return submissions.
For questions about the contest contact: Anna Boot at sgwv@nv-oc.org
Submissions must be postmarked or emailed by March 22, 2011. Send via post to: Nature’s Voice Our Choice
Carlyle Crescent Center 1940 Duke Street, Suite 200
Alexandria, VA 22314
Send via email to: sgwv@nv-oc.org
You decide the winners of our 3rd Annual 'Students Give Water a Voice' Art Competition. Check out the incredible artwork from students around the world depicting this year's theme: Troubled Water in Your Community. http://www.naturesvoice-ourchoice.org/vote.html You have until April 21st, 5:00 pm EST to vote. Winners will be announced on Earth Day, April 22nd.
The finalists were chosen from over 1000 entries from 23 countries. We thank all the educators and students for taking action through artwork to 'Give Water a Voice'.
Note from the Director: While I was doing laundry, during a recent visit to Algeria, my sister-in-law said, “There is no need to save the water for flushing the toilet; we don’t have a problem with water anymore”. What, no problem with water? What had changed in the 3 years that had passed since my last visit? I had been so impressed by the previous water reuse efforts and rainwater harvesting tanks that had been used by families for decades in the arid, Mediterranean bordered city of Oran. However, as seen throughout the world, water conservation efforts stem from need; and when affordable, abundant access to water is available, conservation ceases. Oran, Algeria is in the process of building the world's largest desalinization plant which, when completed in 2011, will provide 500 million liters of fresh water daily to the city's 5 million residents. Although public water use in Oran is still only a fraction of that in the United States; increased access to water in 2009 is already undoing generations of good conservation habits. Because Algeria is an oil and gas rich nation, the energy required for operating the desalinization plant is largely subsidized, making water affordable; but what about the CO2 emissions? What are the climate change impacts of increased water use?
2010 Students Give Water a Voice Competition
in Celebration of World Water Day
NVOC Announces our 3rd Annual
GLOBAL Contest for Posters, Stories, & Videos
Water around the world is in trouble! Every community’s essential water supply is threatened each day by a multitude of sources that can contaminate it. As an essential component of our daily lives, water quality needs to be assessed and addressed now and in the future. For some communities, water appears to be clean, but it is not safe. For others, it is visibly undrinkable. In all cases, water can be polluted both at the source and along the way to our faucets and water fountains.
Nature’s Voice – Our Choice (NVOC) invites students around the world to bring this problem to light for community members and lawmakers. Informing people is the first step in fixing the sources of pollutants to our water resources.
Through posters, stories, poems and video we want students to depict the ‘Life of Troubled Water’ in their community. To participate, we hope educators will take the time to work with students in studying how and where their water may be contaminated. With an informed view of their water, students are urged to submit pictorial, written, or video accounts in the form of drawings/paintings, creative narratives/poems, or video of the journey of a water drop and the pollutants it encounters.
All submissions must be original and created by the students:
+ Drawings or paintings should be done on 8.5 x 11 inch paper or A4 paper
+ Literary entries may be handwritten or typed, no longer than 500 words
+ Video entries should be submitted in VHS or DVD form and no longer than 3 minutes
All entries must be clearly labeled with:
Student Name:
Age:
City, State:
Country:
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Literary, video or questions can be emailed to: cchisholm@nv-oc.org |
Submissions must be postmarked by March 22, 2010
Send to: Nature’s Voice Our Choice
Carlyle Crescent Center
1940 Duke Street, Suite 200
Alexandria, VA 22314
Winning submissions will be selected based on effective expression or communication of the problem in a creative manner as well as craftsmanship possible for the age level
2 winners (1 national and 1 international) will be selected from each age group and each form of media. Winners will be announced on our website and contacted directly on Earth Day, April 22nd.
| Medium | Age Group 8-12 | Age Group 13-18 | Prizes |
| Visual Art (drawings, paintings) | 2 winners | 2 winners | Art Supplies |
| Literary (stories, poems | 2 winners | 2 winners | Books |
| Video | 2 winners | 2 winners | Digital Video Camera |
NOTE: All submissions will become the property of Nature’s Voice Our Choice, with credit given to the student for creation of the material. Submissions will be used in educational campaigns to increase awareness of the need for water conservation and preservation. Due to the large quantity of entries, we regret that we will not be able to return submissions
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