TELL YOUR CLIMATE STORY

The 2024 Ocean Awareness Contest – Tell Your Climate Story – encourages you to become a climate witness and to creatively share 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. The Contest deadline is June 10, 2024.

U.S.-based Black, Indigenous, and/or Latine youth are especially encouraged to participate and are eligible for special awards!

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Resource Studio

Fellowship Grantees

Future Blue Youth Council

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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Earth Collaption
Jada Mensah
Swampscott, MA

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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News

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Cultivating Mental Wellness Through Mindfulness in Schools

April 22, 2024

By Tafadzwa Ashely Gore, 2024 Future Blue Youth Council member In today's fast-paced world, where stress and pressure are prevalent,...

Reflections From My Time in the Bow Seat

April 2, 2024

Bow seat: the front of a boat; symbolizes the vessel’s forward motion and its ability to move through the water...

We Need To Revamp Recycling

March 25, 2024

By Sabine Cuesta, 2024 Future Blue Youth Council member In modern-day society, packaging is absolutely everywhere. From fast food containers...

Events

April
25

Cool Science Showcase

Boston, MA
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June
1

World Ocean Day at the New England Aquarium

Boston, MA
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July
29

NMEA Annual Conference

Boston, MA
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Kimberly Renick
Science Teacher, Timberlane Middle School

“The Ocean Awareness Contest engaged my students in learning, adding a real-world element to last year’s climate change-human impact science unit. All students were excited by the creative connection to the science curriculum allowing them to display their learning in unique ways. As a teacher, I was thrilled to witness how the students dove into their research eager to learn more about the problems and possible solutions.”