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TELL YOUR CLIMATE STORY
The 2024 Ocean Awareness Contest – Tell Your Climate Story – encourages you to become a climate witness and to creatively share your personal experiences, insights, or perceptions about our changing climate reality. Use this opportunity to learn about the climate crisis and how it impacts your family and community, and to examine your individual responses to our evolving world. The Contest deadline is June 10, 2024.
U.S.-based Black, Indigenous, and/or Latine youth are especially encouraged to participate and are eligible for special awards!
Bow Seat Timeline
For more than a decade, Bow Seat has inspired young ocean caretakers through creative expression. Check out our interactive timeline to learn more about our program history and exciting milestones!
View TimelineKayla Jang
Los Angeles, CA
Get Inspired
Our student gallery showcases visual art, poetry and spoken word, prose, music, dance, short films, and multimedia projects from past Ocean Awareness Contest winners. Read, watch, admire, and share!
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Cultivating Mental Wellness Through Mindfulness in Schools
April 22, 2024
By Tafadzwa Ashely Gore, 2024 Future Blue Youth Council member In today's fast-paced world, where stress and pressure are prevalent,...
Reflections From My Time in the Bow Seat
April 2, 2024
Bow seat: the front of a boat; symbolizes the vessel’s forward motion and its ability to move through the water...
We Need To Revamp Recycling
March 25, 2024
By Sabine Cuesta, 2024 Future Blue Youth Council member In modern-day society, packaging is absolutely everywhere. From fast food containers...
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Isabella Hollis
Age 17, Texas
“Through my artwork, I hope to reach out to people that I would never have gotten the opportunity to reach otherwise. Hopefully this will inspire support for our cause of reducing – and eventually eliminating – ocean pollution.”