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World Environment Day Calendar Competition (Australia)

Deadline: 28 March 2025

The World Environment Day Calendar Competition (Australia) is open to all primary schools within the City of Logan for students to showcase their visions of our natural environment through art.

This creative competition gives students the opportunity to provide input and raise awareness on the environmental topics that matter to them. Winning posters will feature in the following years calendar.

Theme

  • This year’s theme invites students to explore the pollinator species that inhabit their city’s environment and showcase the important role they play in maintaining their plant communities. The theme encourages students to connect with the world around them and observe how their powerful pollinators quietly shape the world around them.

Categories

  • Prizes in the competition will be awarded in the following categories:
    • Mayor’s Choice Award
    • Mayor’s Choice Runner-up Award
    • Eleven (11) Calendar Winner Awards
    • Six (6) Highly Commended Awards

Benefits

  • All participating schools go into a random draw to win a major school prize.
  • All finalists will be publicly announced at the 2025 Logan Eco Action Festival (LEAF) during the awards ceremony. Students will be presented with their certificate and prize by a representative of Council.
  • The major school prize winner will have a presentation at their school and will be attended by a representative of Council.

Eligibility Criteria

  • The World Environment Day Poster Competition is open to all primary school students from Prep to Year 6 attending a school within the City of Logan. The competition provides a great opportunity for students to put their artistic creativity to the test by creating a colourful A4 or A3 poster.
  • Submitted artwork must align with the 2025 World Environment Day theme.
  • Students can only submit one individual entry. Group entries will not be eligible.
  • Entries must be either be A4 or A3 size in landscape orientation.
  • Entries can be done on paper or digital artwork formats (i.e. drawing, painting, mixed media, digital graphics), and can include text. Laminated posters, videos, three-dimensional sculptures or any similar formats will not be eligible for judging.
  • Entries can be made from any traditional media, including pastel, oil pastels, pen, pencil, charcoal, acrylics, watercolour, oils, mixed media, collage, or any other sustainable/environmentally friendly materials.
  • Entries must be the student’s original creation. Making a copy of any pre-existing image is not eligible, whether visually or by tracing. Colouring in a printed outline, picture drawn by someone else or having someone else contribute to the artwork is also not eligible.
  • Entries must include an attached Student Entry Form on the back of each poster with a short description of the artwork.
  • Entries with a student name on the front will not be eligible for judging.

Application Requirements

  • Entries must be submitted through the student’s school.
  • Each school will need to collect and register all entries by year level. The five (5) best entries per year level will need to be selected and submitted to Council with the School Entry Form.
  • Ensure each entry submitted to Council includes the Student Entry Form with the school, teacher’s and the student’s name, and year level clearly visible.
  • Entries can be submitted by post, digitally or hand delivered.
  • Postal entries
    • Please print the School Entry Form and include it with the entries when they are posted.
    • Please appropriately package the entries in the envelope to ensure they are not damaged in the post.
  • Hand delivered entries
    • Please print the School Entry Form and include it with the entries when they are delivered.
    • Please ensure that entries are put in an envelope with ‘Attention: Health, Climate and Conservation Branch’ on the front.
  • Digital entries
    • Entries should be in .JPG or .PNG formats with a minimum file size of 300dpi.
    • Ensure each entry is saved with the school and students name, and year level as the file name. Example – Logan State School, Tina Arena, Year 1.
    • Entries will need to include the front and back of the poster with the Student Entry Form visible on the back.
    • Please upload all school entries to a cloud-based storage service (e.g. Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, etc) and include the link in the email.
    • Please ensure the email includes ‘WED competition entries’ in the subject, the School Entry Form, and the link to access the entries.

For more information, visit City of Logan.