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2024 Ocean Awareness
Contest
“Tell Your Climate Story” encourages you to become a climate witness and share your own unique climate story. Creatively express your personal experiences, insights, or perceptions about our changing climate reality. Use this opportunity to learn about the climate crisis and how it impacts your family and community, and to examine your individual responses to our evolving world.
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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All That’s Left
Gwenan Walker
New Canaan, CT
Gwenan Walker
New Canaan, CT
Get Inspired
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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Why Environmental Defenders Need Defending
September 19, 2023
By Dhruv Bhatt, 2023 Future Blue Youth Council member Featured Image: “Climate Strike” by Anna Thompson (Illinois, USA) On January 15,...
The Eco-friendly Past
September 13, 2023
By Nazaha Izdihar, 2022 Future Blue Youth Council member Featured Image: “Before It's Too Late” by Chloe Kim (Washington) This year,...
What’s Your Climate Story? Bow Seat’s 2024 Ocean Awareness Contest...
September 5, 2023
Featured Image: “Spring of Life” by Kayte Yanez (Kaufman, Texas) (Boston, MA) – Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs (Bow Seat)...
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Isabella Hollis
Age 17, Texas
“Through my artwork, I hope to reach out to people that I would never have gotten the opportunity to reach otherwise. Hopefully this will inspire support for our cause of reducing – and eventually eliminating – ocean pollution.”