| Fourth Annual Clean Beaches Art Contest |
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Wherever you live, you can help keep the ocean healthy! |
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4th and 5th grade students from Oregon schools have the opportunity to learn about how certain everyday activities can affect our oceans. You don’t have to be the best artist to have your design selected. A bright, colorful design that shows how we can keep Oregon’s beaches clean is what we are looking for!
Deadline Date: Entries must be received or postmarked by 4:30 PM, May 15, 2009.
Eligibility: Any 4th and 5th grade student.
How Do You Win? Create a painting, drawing, or cartoon showing things you can do to protect Oregon’s beaches or how ocean water becomes polluted. To be eligible the artwork must:
- Be related to the “Clean Beaches” or ocean theme.
- Be original.
- Be created on plain white paper no larger than 11” by 17”.
- Show imagination and creativity.
- Entries must include a title or caption that describes the artwork.
- Include a completed entry form affixed to the back of the artwork.
- Received by May 15, 2009.
What Do You Win?
- First place winner will receive a small prize.
- Artwork will be posted on the Oregon Beach Monitoring Program website.
- All students will receive a certificate of excellence for their participation.
- Teachers of the winning artists will receive a $100 gift certificate to Acorn Naturalists to purchase something special for their classroom.
Some Suggestions & Ideas
The theme of the contest is keeping Oregon beaches clean and protecting our ocean waters by practicing healthy beach habits.
Students! Think "outside the fish" and consider drawings that show why it is important to protect our ocean water for our health, recreation, swimming or wildlife.
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You can encourage people to pick up pet waste (scoop the poop), bag it and throw it in the trash; place all garbage in trashcans, not on the beach – trash attracts wildfowl and animals; properly dispose of boating waste; or not dump or throw anything down a storm drain.
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You can promote conserving water – the more water you use the more water you send to the sewage treatment plants. This excess water can lead to sewer overflows and raw sewage discharges into streams, rivers and beach areas.
Most of all, be creative!
Submit entries to Jennifer Ketterman, Office of Environmental Public Health, 800 NE Oregon, Suite 640, Portland, OR 97232.
Questions? Call or Email:
Jennifer Ketterman, Oregon Beach Monitoring Program
(971) 673-0431
Email: jennifer.a.ketterman@state.or.us
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