​Energize Schools is hosting an Earth Day Campaign Contest. Prizes valued at over $3,000 will be awarded to schools.

Join our Earth Day Campaign Contest by creating a sustainability behavior change campaign at your school and in your community.
Compete to create positive, measurable changes in behavior in one of the four categories:
Energy
Waste
Water
Transportation
“Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.” -Rachel Carson
Steps to participate:
  1. ​Fill out this form to let us know you are participating by Friday, April 13th. 
  2. Work with your team to design and implement an Earth Day Campaign. Let us know if you need ideas or help doing this!
  3. Tell us what you did! Email energizeschools@seiinc.org and tell us how you met the criteria below by 5pm on May 18, 2018. Extra points if you can show us your campaign in action by submitting photos* or copies of materials you made. 
*Please have students in photos fill out this Photo Release Form and send it to us as well. This allows us to share your hard work with our partners across California!

Contest Criteria:
Campaigns will be judged on their quality and impact, through the following:
  • How did your campaign engage, inspire, and empower other students to act?
  • How many students did you reach? How did you reach them? What did the general student body learn as a result of your campaign?
  • Please send us any relevant materials (photos, videos, a hashtag to look at, etc.)
Prizes may include:
  • Ice cream socials
  • Pizza parties
  • Solar phone charger kits
  • Solar car kits
  • Energy Auditing Toolkits
  • Solar Toolkits
  • Money to go towards Green Team initiatives 

Resources

Curriculum and Additional Support

Our curriculum library is full of units, lessons, activities, and resources that are perfect for the educational piece of the Earth Day Campaign Contest!

Check out the previews of our Energy Conservation Guide, Zero Waste Guide, Transportation Assessment, School Water Assessment, and  Sustainability Fair Guide and then fill out this survey to request the full guides or any additional curricular resources or support. Let's get started helping you as soon as possible!


Earth Tips

Use our Earth Tips to post on social media, or your school newsletter, or as a template for a morning announcement. 

Conservation Tools

Click here for a template for school-wide announcements or emails about your Earth Day Campaign.