The Famous Challenge 2.O: ‘Action for Oceans’ (India and France)

The Wipro earthian is a sustainability education program, which fosters critical thinking in sustainability through hands-on and contextual learning opportunities for students. The program collaborates with institutions and faculty to strengthen sustainability thinking, learning and action, which transfers into communities in meaningful ways.

The Wipro earthian school program engages schools in rural, semi-urban and urban areas of India, through a network of government and non-government partners. As anchors of education in schools, they believe that teachers are the focal points in disseminating sustainability education and multiple yearly trainings are provided to them. There are three themes offered by the program, which play out through an activity based annual competition. The themes are water, waste and biodiversity. 

Objectives

• The goal of this challenge is to raise awareness and inspire students towards looking at sustainable stewardship of the oceans. they aim to achieve this by motivating school children globally to become citizen journalists. They will capture engaging videos that underscore the significance of ocean conservation and waste management, and their environmental impact. This competition is designed to empower participants to champion the cause of ocean health, fostering positive change within their local communities and beyond.

Eligibility Criteria

• A group of students from grade 6 to 12 supported by 1 teacher.
• Students are the primary contributors, owners, and representatives of this challenge.
• The teacher will act as a coordinator/facilitator.

Evaluation Criteria

• Creativity in documentation
• Overall storytelling, clarity, and cohesion
• The video should make the story easy to listen to, entertaining and engaging. Your passion for ocean health will shine through in the video.

Application Requirements

• The structure of the video is important; making sure the audience can follow your story clearly and fully understand all aspects featured in the video.
• You can interview relevant individuals for your video. A few examples are waste pickers, municipality representatives, civil society, fishermen, researchers.
• Your video and report can be in your own language (if possible, try to get it translated into English).
• Technical guidelines for recording the video:
  • Pick a quiet place where you have good bright lighting.
  • Setup your phone and ideally use the back camera of your phone. You can use a DSLR/Camcorder if available.
  • The total duration of the entire clip/video should not exceed 3-5 mins.
  • Shoot horizontal/in landscape mode.
  • Do not compress the video or share on WhatsApp as a video.
• Please upload your video on YouTube and share the link with them. Your video should have the title “The Famous Challenge: Your School Name”.
• Use a Bluetooth headset for clear transmission of audio if possible.
• While shooting the video try to wear solid, pastel colors. Avoid checks, whites, or thin stripes.

For more information, visit Wipro Earthian.