Building a community of youth empowered to connect, create, and communicate for our blue planet.
Global Reach
142 Countries
Participants
44,774 Students
Scholarships
$783,850
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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View AllCongratulations to the Winners of the 2025 Ocean Awareness Contest,...
November 17, 2025
Message from Founder and President, Linda Cabot “Nature is loved by what is best in us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Meet Giovanni Prete, Bow Seat’s Communications Director
November 7, 2025
I was about three when my family decided to move from Montreal to Corfu island, Greece. My grandparents said they...
Designer Genes: Genetic Engineering on a Changing Planet
October 17, 2025
By Nethanya Fonseka, 2025 Future Blue Youth Council member Cover photo: Baroque Biology (Paper Theatre) by Jennifer Willet (2019), petri...
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Keren-happuch Garba
Age 21, Kaduna State, Nigeria
“Bow Seat brings together a wonderful and diverse community of young environmentalists and climate advocates to create positive impacts globally. It’s given my community and I the opportunity to share our climate story with a global audience. Thanks to Bow Seat, I’m a better climate advocate.”