SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Environmental Excellence Awards

Posted by on August 13, 2010

Student Groups Invited to Submit Entries for SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Environmental Excellence Awards
Deadline: December 1, 2010

A program of the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund, the 2011 SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Environmental Excellence Awards will recognize the outstanding efforts of students and teachers across the U.S. who are working at the grassroots level to protect and preserve the environment.

The Environmental Excellence Awards program provides school and community groups with a monetary award and other prizes in honor of their environmental projects. The program is an awards program, not a grant program. Project applicants should be able to demonstrate significant accomplishments that have occurred prior to the submission deadline. Previous award-winning projects have tackled a wide variety of environmental problemsincluding but not limited to habitat restoration, school yard beautification, energy and waste reduction, environmental education and community outreach, wildlife protection, and natural resource conservation.

For the 2011 awards program, eight groups will be selected to receive a $10,000 award to benefit their project, an all-expenses-paid trip for three students and one adult leader to a SeaWorld or Busch Gardens park for a special awards event, and an award trophy and participation certificate for the project leader.

From the eight winning groups, one outstanding environmental educator/leader will be selected to receive a $5,000 award, an all-expenses-paid trip for themselves and one guest to a SeaWorld or Busch Gardens park for a special awards event, an all-expenses-paid trip to the National Science Teachers Association 2011 national conference, and an award trophy and certificate.

All K-12 schools (public, private, and licensed home schools) in the U.S. are eligible to apply. Projects must be sponsored by a formally recognized school group, such as a grade level, classroom, or club. Community-based projects, such as those managed and operated by community service organizations, public recreation centers, 4-H clubs, and other public, nonprofit groups working to protect the environment at the grassroots level are also eligible. Individual student projects are not eligible.

Visit the SeaWorld Web site for information.

http://www.seaworld.org/conservation-matters/eea/