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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!
View TimelineLea Vitzthum
New City, NY
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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Sept.
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Elizabeth Goodrich
Age 12, Maine
“After learning about litter, global warming, and invasive species last year, I realized that our ignorance has become a huge problem, and I knew I had to do something. I just didn’t know what. When my teacher told me about Bow Seat, I had my answer. It was a way for me to express my concern and send a message to people about ocean pollution in a creative way. We only have one Earth, and it is our job to take good care of it.”