Young Environmentalist - 2024-25
Caring about Our Planet
This Year's Theme is
Waste Minimisation and Carbon Reduction
The aim of the competition is to encourage the development of environmental skills by:-
- Interacting with the environment
- Addressing environmental issues
- Developing and exploring solutions to the issues
- Exploring, investigating, and undertaking an environmentally sustainable project
Project Area Suggestions - Carbon Reduction
- Plant wildflower seeds or plant wildflower bulbs and compare how they grow in different environments
- Plant some native trees or native hedging
- Reduce the amount of travel in private vehicles
Be a Hero Go Net Zero (work out your team or family members carbon footprint) and reduce it.
Project Area Suggestions - Waste Minimisation
- Explore ways to reduce the unnecessary throwing away of viable products
- Survey attitudes to waste under the theme of Reduce, Re-use, Repurpose and Recycle
- Turn waste into new useful objects or works of Art
- Address the problems associated with fast fashion
- Think of ways of reducing food waste.
- Increase recycling of discarded food.
- Find a use for single use plastic items.
- Explore innovative ways of using plastic.
- Obtain and map photographic evidence of litter in the environment.
- Engage in Litter Picking Activities with video or documentary evidence or weight of litter collected.
- Adopt a public space and track how much waste is collected over a period of time.
- Measure the size of the problem in your local area (e.g. how much waste is generated in the home, college, or community)
- Increase recycling in your school, college or community
Timeline
You can enter as an individual or a teams with between 2 and 12 members.
Junior (7-10), Intermediate (11-13) and Senior (14-17) age groups – ages as at 31st August, 2024
Your project should be ready for judging by your local Rotary club Friday 28th February, 2025.
The closing date fo entries into the District heat is 28th March 2025.
Presentations
You can present your project to the judge(s) in a number of ways, including:-
- Written and illustrated submissions
- Photographic or artistic presentations or posters*
- Audio or video reports or PowerPoint
- Conversations or creative movement/dance/short play
*Poster displays should be A3 size, in colour or black and white, with images and text.
Awards
Each Rotary club will hold a club competition
Winning teams in each category from each club will be invited to the District final in the Kimbolton area on a Saturday morning in May 2025, date and venue to be confirmed.
Further Information
Young Environmentalist Info Pack
For further details contact:
Chris Davies. chrisdavies300@outlook.com
Powerpoint Presentation is below and can be downloaded
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