When you’ve got access to free Sea World tickets, you won’t just be in for a whole new brand of fun and excitement. You’re also giving kids making a difference who help design creative ways to conserve the world we share across the United States the honor and appreciation they truly deserve with their Environmental Excellence Awards.
From initiating coast-to-coast bake sales to help endangered sea turtles as well as building a floating classroom to help revive a polluted river, Sea World has just recently awarded eight youth-driven environmental groups that have proved themselves as veritable role models when it comes to protecting and saving Mother Earth. Here are some of the winners of this year’s Sea World Environmental Excellence Awards:
Floating Classroom to Save Elizabeth River – Virginia
Aimed to inform, inspire and engage participants to help make the Elizabeth River, one of the most polluted rivers that terminate in the Chesapeake Bay safe for swimming and fishing by 2020, kids from the Old Dominion state worked hand in hand with University of Virginia School (UVA) of Architecture to create a “green” barge to revive the once thriving body of water. The vessel features power systems run by sun and wind, compost toilets and hand-washing stations that use rain water, a floating wetland nursery as well as an enclosed classroom with a real-time underwater camera.
Saving Endangered Sea Turtles “A Piece of Cake” – North Carolina
Through her awareness program, “Help Them L.A.S.T. – Love a Sea Turtle,” Casey Sokolovic bakes and sells turtle-shaped sugar cookies and lemonade to raise money in support of turtle conservation efforts. Based in the Tar Heel State, she also initiated the “Great Bake for Oceans’ Sake,” a coast-wide bake sale that promotes baking enthusiasts to whip up their best creations and donate the proceeds to an ocean conservation organization.
Making Proper Pill Disposal A Priority – Michigan
Aware of the unpleasant effects of negligently disposed pills and similar pharmaceutical products can have an on a community’s water supply in the long run, students from the Pontiac Township High School are advocating for alternative disposal methods ranging from how to properly throw away controlled substances to how to coordinate drop-off locations. The program has become so successful that it has been replicate in over 100 counties in Illinois at present.
Have you been inspired by the environmental campaigns that these young children help realize? Show your support by getting your hands on free Sea World tickets right away to pave the way for another Environmental Excellence Awards in 2012!
