Global Reach
142 Countries
Participants
38,391 Students
Scholarships
$783,850
Congratulations 2024 Winners!
Tell Your Climate Story challenged students worldwide to become climate witnesses and creatively express their personal experiences, insights, and perceptions about our changing climate reality. Through the process of imagining, designing, and creating their pieces, students learned about climate impacts in their own backyards and discovered ways they can take action to prevent further climate catastrophes. Their works serve as timely testimonies of what it’s like growing up in the age of climate change. View the insightful new collection of Visual Art, Film, Interactive & Multimedia, Performing Arts, Poetry & Spoken Word, and Creative Writing.

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!
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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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View AllGhost Nets: The Climate and Wildlife Toll of Lost Fishing...
February 11, 2025
By Gerselle Koh, 2025 Future Blue Youth Council member Cover photo by Michelle Gu (Save the Whales, 2019). Every year,...
L.A. Inferno: Heat and Heartbreak
January 29, 2025
By Gavin Tesser, 2025 Future Blue Youth Council member Cover photo by ABC News Los Angeles is burning in a...
Protecting the Ocean: Lessons from the Kalinago People
January 27, 2025
By Tana Tahira Valmond, 2024 Future Blue Youth Council member As a member of an Indigenous community in Dominica, I’ve...
Events
25-26
Nov 1
6-9

Science Teacher, Forest Glen Middle School
“Living in coastal Southeast Florida, we see firsthand the consequences of climate change and marine pollution on our delicate coral reef ecosystem. The Ocean Awareness Contest gives my students a creative and artistic outlet to not only express their frustrations with these issues but also hope for the future and possible solutions. For that, I am grateful!”