Illinois EPA Announces Annual Environmental Education Competition
for Fifth & Sixth Grade Students
2018 Program Encourages Youth Creativity
to Protect Environment and Honoring the State’s Bicentennial
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[December 15, 2017]
SPRINGFIELD - Fifth and
sixth grade writers and artists from around Illinois are invited to
compete in this year’s Poster, Poetry and Prose Contest sponsored by
the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA). This
year’s contest theme is Illinois is Celebrating 200 Years!
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How Can You Be an Environmental Pioneer? focusing on
helping to preserve and protect our air, land and water for the next
200 years in honor of Illinois’s bicentennial. Educators are asked
to introduce historic environmental problems and how Illinois laws
and citizen actions have helped make a healthier environment.
Students are challenged to answer the question, “What would a modern
environmental pioneer do to ensure Illinois has a sustainable
future?”.
Each school can enter up to eight works, four posters and four
written. Entries must be postmarked and sent in to the
Illinois EPA by February 1, 2018. An in house panel from the
Illinois EPA will judge all entries to select the finalists, whose
entries are then judged by an outside panel of authorities to
determine the top twelve winners. The top winning entries will be on
exhibit in the atrium of the Illinois EPA’s headquarters building in
Springfield from April 23 through May 21, and the top winners will
be featured on the Illinois EPA’s homepage at
www.epa.illinois.gov.
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All finalists, together with their families and teachers, are
invited to an awards ceremony and reception that will be held on April 21, 2018
at the Old State Capitol Historic Site in Springfield. After the awards
ceremony, participants are invited to attend the City of Springfield’s Earth
Awareness Fair on the Old State Capitol’s lawn.
Information about the annual event can be obtained on Illinois
EPA’s website at:
http://www.epa.illinois.gov/topics/ education/contest/index , or by
contacting Kristi Morris, Environmental Education Coordinator for the Illinois
EPA, at 217-558-7198, or by mail at 1021 North Grand Avenue E., P.O. Box 19276,
Springfield, IL 62794 9276. Information on the Bicentennial Celebration can be
found on the following website:
https://illinois 200.com/.
[Kim Biggs, Illinois EPA] |