This Earth Day, Bring Change to Your Community!
The 2025 Earth Day Challenge is an exciting opportunity for middle and high school students to inspire sustainable change in their community while learning about topics like air quality and water conservation. Challenge activities help participants develop leadership skills and can be completed as a class, in small groups/clubs, or even individually!
See below for an overview of the challenge and how YOU can get involved!
See below for an overview of the challenge and how YOU can get involved!
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Register
Register for the 2025 Earth Day Challenge by clicking the button below! You will receive a link to the Earth Day Challenge Portal, where you can access all challenge materials. Registration is recommended by April 15. |
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Participate in the Challenge and Run a Campaign
Become a sustainability leader in your community! By researching local and global sustainability topics, students will learn how people have impacted our environment and then use that knowledge to launch a sustainability campaign. All challenge materials are available in English and Spanish. |
Part 1: Air & Water
Start thinking about how you can make a positive change by first building your environmental knowledge around how humans have impacted air and water. |
Part 2: Build Your Knowledge on Air and Water Quality
Use an online tool to understand local environmental issues and how history continues to impact air and water quality today. |
Part 3: Vision & Launch
Become a sustainability leader! Plan and launch your sustainability campaign to inform your community. |
Win Prize Money to Move Your Sustainability Vision Forward!
Campaigns submitted by May 6 will be eligible to win money for their school, classroom, or club to continue supporting the sustainability efforts started during the challenge. See below for additional prize eligibility requirements.
Campaigns submitted by May 6 will be eligible to win money for their school, classroom, or club to continue supporting the sustainability efforts started during the challenge. See below for additional prize eligibility requirements.
Grand Prize
Top Sustainability Campaign
$1,000
$1,000
Runner-Up Campaigns
Student campaigns that do not receive a grand prize but still make a big impact on their community, may be eligible to receive other prizes!
Student campaigns that do not receive a grand prize but still make a big impact on their community, may be eligible to receive other prizes!
Receive a Sustainability Specialist Certificate
Additionally, each student who completes their Submission Document and submits their campaign materials will receive a Sustainability Specialist Certificate from SEI’s Energize Schools program via email.
Additionally, each student who completes their Submission Document and submits their campaign materials will receive a Sustainability Specialist Certificate from SEI’s Energize Schools program via email.
Prize Eligibility
The Earth Day Challenge is open to all middle school and high school students, teachers, and administrators from March 4th to May 6th. To be eligible for the prizes, your school must be within SoCalGas, Metropolitan Water District service area, or the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, which includes: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southwestern Solano, and southern Sonoma counties.
The Earth Day Challenge is open to all middle school and high school students, teachers, and administrators from March 4th to May 6th. To be eligible for the prizes, your school must be within SoCalGas, Metropolitan Water District service area, or the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, which includes: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southwestern Solano, and southern Sonoma counties.
See Previous Earth Day and People & Planet Challenge Campaigns!
Students created campaigns to educate their communities on the dangers of fast fashion and pollution, to advocate for water conservation, and even to start a school garden!
Students created campaigns to educate their communities on the dangers of fast fashion and pollution, to advocate for water conservation, and even to start a school garden!
High Tech High’s student presentation on pollution prevention.
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High Tech High’s student presentation on the environmental implications of fast fashion.
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High Tech High’s student presentation on ocean acidification.
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Design Tech High’s Instagram post introducing their school community garden project to their peers.
Spearheaded by their co-leaders, Timothy Lee and Trinity Ly, Summit Shasta‘s Environment Club engaged in a four-day project to quantify their school’s waste sorting practices and educate school stakeholders on the importance of recycling and composting.
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Monrovia High School Environmental Club's Instagram post on climate change.
A comic strip developed by a group of students at Abraham Lincoln High that aimed to inform readers about air pollution and how we can combat it.
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East Bay Innovation Academy's infographic on water conservation.
Sam Huang, a Rosemead High School student, successfully spread awareness about how human activities impact the environment and urged their community to take action!
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Partners
This challenge is funded by grants from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and SoCalGas, and sponsored by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
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