2027 Contest Theme: TBD. Please check back in fall 2025.
The contest is free and open to all K-12 students residing in Broward County.
Would you like to create environmental artwork for the chance to win prizes? This can be depicted through hand-drawn artwork, digital art/media (subject to AI checkers), or photography. Please be mindful of and avoid any copyright infringement.
2025 student winners' prizes included:
• Tickets to Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science
• Tickets to Flamingo Gardens
• Tickets to Zoo Miami
• Tickets to Butterfly world
• Tickets to Sawgrass Recreation Park
• Tickets to participate in a Miami EcoAdventures program
• Broward Bcycle memberships
• Publix gift cards
Please read the rules and guidelines below to ensure your artwork qualifies. If so, see the checklist below to ensure you fill out the parental release form
and online submission form (link below).
Checklist:
Complete an online submission form directly, OR visit our Hub Site to submit the same form (scroll to the bottom of the Hub Site page).
- Paragraph (no more than 75 words) explaining the artwork and how it related to the contest theme (see above)
Signed Parental Release Form
Artwork MUST be in the landscape orientation. If not, it will be disqualified.
Artwork must be flat and not folded (NO glue and NO glitter).
Artwork must be no larger than 12 inches by 18 inches (use a ruler to check the size).
Only original artwork will be accepted.
No "split screen" artwork, i.e. good side vs. bad side.
Contest Rules and Guidelines:
- An online
submission form must be submitted (see first point in the above "Checklist" section for this link).
- A signed
Parental Release Form must be completed and sent with the artwork.
- Entries must be received or post-marked by Broward County’s Air Program or the BCPS STEM Team by close of business on Friday,
April 10th, 2026.
- If entries are post-marked or uploaded on the online submission form above after this date, they can be disqualified.
- Artwork size:
- Hand Drawing: no larger than 12 inches x 18 inches and no smaller than 8 inches x 10 inches
- Digital Art: high resolution 300 dpi or higher and submitted as .png or .jpg. Pixel size between 3300 x 2400 and 5100 x 3300
- Subject to AI checkers to avoid copyright infringement
- Photographs: no larger than 12 inches x 18 inches and no smaller than 8 inches x 10 inches and submitted as .png or .jpg files.
- Artwork orientation:
LANDSCAPE for
all art types. If the submission is not in the landscape orientation, it will be disqualified.
- One paragraph that explains your artwork. Your artwork should show how to combat climate change by reducing the specific climate change-related effects that we see in South Florida. Your paragraph must be
no longer than 75 words.
- Only original work will be considered (for example, no magazine cutouts or photos from the Internet).
- Please do not fold the artwork before mailing. Entries must be mailed flat and must not be folded, matted, or mounted.
Submission of Artwork
Hand-drawn artwork
and Broward County Public School student:
| Hand-drawing and not a Broward County Public School student (homeschool, private school, etc.):
| Digital art and photography:
|
Submit to your teacher for them to submit via School Board Pony to the address below:
ATTN: Rebecca Malones, STEM + CS, 4th Floor
KC Wright Building
600 SE 3rd Ave.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
| Mail to:
Natural Resources Division
ATTN: Air Outreach Team
115 South Andrews Avenue
Suite 329H
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
| Submit via
submission form
|
Judging Criteria
Effectiveness & Relevance to theme (75%): Does the artwork effectively illustrate the theme and have a written description relevant to the theme? Does the artwork clearly express a message of environmental conservation?
Creativity & Neatness (25%): Does the student use creative forms of expression? Is the artwork neat and easily understood? How much time and effort does the hand-srawn artwork, digital art, or photograph exhibit?
Winners
Winning entries will be featured in the 2026 Clean Air Calendar. There will be a total of twelve (12) winners—one for each month—plus one (1) Grand Prize Winner whose artwork will be featured as the calendar cover photo. The participating school of the Grand Prize Winner (cover image) will be awarded a plaque for display at the school, and all of the winners (not honorable mentions) will receive a prize. Any artwork that is submitted for the contest may be used for educational purposes and will become the property of Broward County.
Please note: Digital art and photographs will be accepted and will be considered upon the discretion of Broward County.
