Nature's Voice Our Choice

2010 Students Give Water a Voice Competition
in Celebration of World Water Day

NVOC Announces our 3rd Annual
GLOBAL Contest for Posters, Stories, & Videos

Water around the world is in trouble!  Every community’s essential water supply is threatened each day by a multitude of sources that can contaminate it.  As an essential component of our daily lives, water quality needs to be assessed and addressed now and in the future.  For some communities, water appears to be clean, but it is not safe.  For others, it is visibly undrinkable.  In all cases, water can be polluted both at the source and along the way to our faucets and water fountains.

Nature’s Voice – Our Choice (NVOC) invites students around the world to bring this problem to light for community members and lawmakers. Informing people is the first step in fixing the sources of pollutants to our water resources.

Through posters, stories, poems and video we want students to depict the ‘Life of Troubled Water’ in their community.  To participate, we hope educators will take the time to work with students in studying how and where their water may be contaminated.  With an informed view of their water, students are urged to submit pictorial, written, or video accounts in the form of drawings/paintings, creative narratives/poems, or video of the journey of a water drop and the pollutants it encounters.

All submissions must be original and created by the students:
+   Drawings or paintings should be done on 8.5 x 11 inch paper or A4 paper
+   Literary entries may be handwritten or typed, no longer than 500 words
+   Video entries should be submitted in VHS or DVD form and no longer than 3 minutes

All entries must be clearly labeled with:
Student Name:
Age:
City, State:
Country:

Submissions must be postmarked by March 22, 2010 
Send to:   Nature’s Voice Our Choice
               Carlyle Crescent Center
               1940 Duke Street, Suite 200
               Alexandria, VA  22314

Winning submissions will be selected based on effective expression or communication of the problem in a creative manner as well as craftsmanship possible for the age level

2 winners (1 national and 1 international) will be selected from each age group and each form of media.  Winners will be announced on our website and contacted directly on Earth Day, April 22nd.

NOTE:  All submissions will become the property of Nature’s Voice Our Choice, with credit given to the student for creation of the material.  Submissions will be used in educational campaigns to increase awareness of the need for water conservation and preservation.  Due to the large quantity of entries, we regret that we will not be able to return submissions