Green Your School

The Contest Entry Phase Has Now Ended - View the Finalists

SCA's Green Your School Contest is a national competition to stimulate and/or identify conservation service projects designed by high school students that improve or restore or beautify or conserve their high school environment. To be eligible, projects must have been started after August 1st, 2008. The Contest submission phase begins on April 1, 2009, and will end at 11:59 pm ET October 9, 2009. Winners will be announced on or around December 5, 2009.

Prizes

There will be one Grand Prize of $5,000 and two runner-up prizes of $2,500 each. Prizes will be awarded directly to high schools and not to individuals.

Guidelines

Entries will be judged by these criteria:

• the project has or will improve the environmental health of the school (30 points)
• the project is sustainable; i.e. either the project will continue and/or the impact on the school's environmental health will be a lasting one (30 points)
• the project is initiated by students and engages other students, teachers and school administrators (30 points)
• the submission itself is of high quality (10 points)
• the project engaged the community (10 bonus points)
• Include up to 10 photos and/or a link to a video [max 5 minutes] documenting your project.