Building a community of youth empowered to connect, create, and communicate for our blue planet.
Global Reach
142 Countries
Participants
44,774 Students
Scholarships
$845,250
Congratulations 2025 Winners!
Connections to Nature: Looking Inside, Going Outside, challenged participants to explore the natural world and their place in it through the lenses of generational knowledge, resilience, human health, and urban environments. Through the process of imagining, designing, and creating their pieces, students learned about the nature in their own backyards and reminded us of why it’s so important to protect the planet. View the insightful new collection of Visual Art, Film, Interactive & Multimedia, Performing Arts, Poetry & Spoken Word, and Creative Writing.
Resource Studio
Visit our Resource Studio, a space for creative exploration and a jumping-off point for deep inquiry of climate change, ocean conservation, and using art and creativity as tools in environmental movements!
Visit Resource StudioContest Gallery
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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To Extinction and Back: How Galápagos Reintroduced Giant Tortoises
March 19, 2026
By Rafael Bonilla Abad, 2025 Future Blue Youth Council member Once upon a time… Off the coast of what is...
Leading Change through Art in Nepal with Bimochan Pathak
March 17, 2026
By Rafael Bonilla Abad and Suhani Chadha, 2025 Future Blue Youth Council members Cover photo by Bimochan Pathak Every year, Bow...
Nature’s Latest Masterpieces: The Unbelievable Life Found This Year
March 12, 2026
By Emaan Danish Khan, 2026 Future Blue Youth Council member Cover image: The Tide of Jellyfish by Hyemin Lyoo, 2024...
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Christopher Kondrich
Contest Judge
“What Bow Seat does every year through its contest is to compile some of the most urgent, stirring, and powerful work about the climate crisis being written. That it comes from students across the country is nothing short of extraordinary. Not only are the stakes communicated compellingly in the poems contained herein, but also a sense of hope, for which I cannot commend these impassioned writers enough.”