WOW 2024 Challenge Coin Design and Poetry Contests, K-12 Students
World Oceans Week at The Explorers Club is inviting K-12 students to submit original art for the 2024 WOW Challenge Coin contest and poetry for the WOW Poetry contest. The work of the winners will be recognized by The Explorers Club during WOW, June 3-7, in New York City.
Submissions for either the challenge coin or poetry competition must include one or more ambassador species and be original material. The 2024 World Ocean Week Ambassadors are the Sea Turtle, the Oyster and the Foraminifera “foram”[1].
Students may submit to both the art and the poetry contest. Students can submit only one entry for each contest.
All entries are due by March 29, 2024. See contest rules for specifics about the challenge coin and poetry submissions.
Call for Entries: WOW 2024 Challenge Coin Contest, K-12 Students
What is a Challenge Coin?
Challenge coins are unique and are believed to date back to ancient history. Today challenge coins are used by the president, in the military, and in civic organizations to recognize members for their outstanding accomplishments.
Design Contest Rules:
-Designs must include WOW 2024 ambassador species (one or more)
-Artwork in your design must be original (not copied) using crayons, markers, colored pencils and digital art.
-Use no more than 7 color gradients and do not include any letters or writing.
-Designs must fit inside the circle in the template provided. You can find a copy of the template in the design entry folder.
-Design entries must be in format of PDF or JPG and should be uploaded in a class folder with teacher’s name, school name, grade and email. All individual student entries in the folder should include student’s name, teacher’s name, and grade level. Designs should be submitted through the provided link. Submissions that are emailed or mailed will not be accepted.
– Design entry folder:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lInRR3bJq6Cbu9SFr91CLCkU2YkkufWa?usp=drive_link
Design Criteria:
A panel of judges will review all entries. Artwork will be judged for creativity, originality, professional quality (neatness and craft), and aesthetic quality (design, composition, color/tones).
2024 Challenge Coin Contest Winner:
One winning design will be selected by contest judges for the design that will be used on the WOW 2024 Challenge Coin.
Members of the art judging team will work with the challenge coin finalist to prepare and finalize the design for the 2024 WOW Challenge Coin.
Rights to usage: Entering the Challenge Coin Design Contest constitutes permission for Explorers Club to use, without notice, worldwide and in perpetuity, any eligible entry, including name, teacher, grade and school, in any and all media for any purpose, including without limitation, printer materials and promotional purposes as well as in, on or in connection with the website or the contest or other promotions.
If you have any questions, please email ebtsoyp@gmail.com
Call for Entries: WOW 2024 Poetry Contest,
K-12 students
Poetry Contest Rules:
– Poems must include one or more WOW 2024 ambassador species
– All poems must be original and should be written in English, French or Spanish. They should not include drawings or artwork.
– Poem length limits:
Grades K-3: No more than 8 lines
Grades 4-8: No more than 16 lines
Grades 9-12: No more than 24 lines
– Poetry Contest entries may be haiku, rhyming or freeform and should be in format of PDF or JPG. Entries from K-3 students can be scanned from a handwritten entry.
-Submissions should be uploaded in a class folder with teacher’s name, school name, grade and email. All individual student entries in the folder should include student’s name, teacher’s name, and grade level. Designs should be submitted through the provided link. Submissions that are emailed or mailed will not be accepted.
– Poetry Entry Folder:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lInRR3bJq6Cbu9SFr91CLCkU2YkkufWa?usp=drive_link
Poetry Contest Winner Criteria:
A panel of judges will review all poems for creativity, language, and representation of the ambassadors.
2024 Poetry Contest Finalists:
Finalists will be selected for each ambassador species, with runners up for each Grade Group. The Explorers Club will highlight the winning poems during the WOW 2024 activities in New York City.
Rights to usage: Entering the WOW 2024 Poetry Contest constitutes permission for Explorers Club to use, without notice, worldwide and in perpetuity, any eligible entry, including name, teacher, grade and school, in any and all media for any purpose, including without limitation, printer materials and promotional purposes as well as in, on or in connection with the website or the contest or other promotions.
If you have any questions, please email: ebtsoyp@gmail.com
In Partnership With
[1] Foraminifera (forams) are small, single-celled organisms found floating in water or living in the seabed. Most are the size of a sand grain, or smaller. A small handful of sand, about the size of a sugar cube may have hundreds of live forams and many more shells, but you’ll need a magnifying glass to see them. Foraminifera are an important part of the marine food chain, providing food for many larger animals including snails, sand dollars, and fish. For more information on forams, see Foram Facts https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/Wetmore.html); or look at some foram photographs, https://foraminifera.eu/.