GAW 2018 National Secondary School Poster Competition

 

BRIEF

The Department of Geography at the University of the West Indies is holding its first national poster competition in celebration of Geography Awareness Week (GAW), November 11-17, 2018. The competition is open to ALL Secondary School students in Trinidad and Tobago. This year our theme for GAW is “Climate Change Impacts”. Students are required to prepare a poster on ‘Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Food Security’ within Trinidad and Tobago.

RULES

• All posters MUST be prepared using the poster template form available from your class teacher. The poster template can also be found on https://geographyawareness.blog-spot.com/
• Posters must include a Title (placed at the top of the poster) and the Name of the Teacher and Students (placed at the bottom of the poster)
• Poster submissions are to be made through class Teachers ONLY
• ONE submission per class
• Posters must reference all research and images
• All images or photos used in the poster must be clear and of high quality, such as .jpg or .png format with a resolution of 5 megapixels (5MP) or greater. Therefore original im-ages are encouraged
• Posters must be saved as .ppt, .pptx or open-source equivalent
• All complete entries MUST be sent to geog.uwi@gmail.com by 12pm on Wednesday 31st October, 2018

PRIZES

• Contest winners will be notified through their School Principals
• The top five posters will be on display during the International Conference on Climate Change Impacts on Food and Nutrition Security at the Radisson Hotel, Port-of-Spain, No-vember 12-16, 2018
• The Teacher and students of the class placing First in the poster competition will be invited to attend the International Conference on Climate Change Impacts on Food and Nutrition Security at the Radisson Hotel, Port-of-Spain for one day during the week of November 12-16, 2018 (FREE of charge valued at $1000TT per person)
• The winning class will also receive additional prizes
• Winning posters may appear in promotional activities for all future Geography Awareness Week celebrations and be used by the UWI-STA Geography Department in perpetuity along with the winner’s names and composition of excerpts thereof

Follow our Social Media pages:

✓ FB        facebook.com/groups/uwista.geography/

✓ IG        uwistageography

✓ BLOG https://geographyawareness.blogspot.com

Like and share the poster competition advert on social media, tag your friends. Unsuitable entries will NOT be considered. Posters will be judged on their content, visual presentation, graphical display and overall quality.

The Department of Geography reserves the right to refuse to award prizes in the case where insuf-ficient entries, or entries of a substandard quality, have been submitted.

• All posters MUST be prepared using this poster template form

GAW 2018 National Secondary School Photo Competition

BRIEF

The Department's Seventh National Secondary School Photo Competition is now open to ALL students in ALL forms. Our Geography Awareness Week theme this year is 'Climate Change Impacts'. Students are required to capture images which evince climate change within Trinidad and Tobago. Do you think Climate Change is real? Are we seeing the impacts already? This is your chance to show us!

RULES

• Photographs must be taken anytime between September 26th and November 4th, 2018. All complete entries MUST be received by midnight on Sunday 4th November, 2018
• Each photo MUST be sent as a high quality .JPG or .PNG file in an attachment. To ensure eligibility for the contest all entries must have a resolution of 5 megapixels (5MP) or greater
• Multiple entries are allowed and must be sent to geog.uwi@gmail.com
• All photos must be taken by the contestant within the contest period in Trinidad and Tobago
• Contestants may not submit work that has previously been submitted for judgement

SUBMISSION

For a COMPLETE contest entry, each entry MUST be accompanied by an entry form with:

(1) The full name of the student who took the photo, the name of their teacher, and the name

      of their school

(2) The title of the photo

(3) The date and the location the photo was taken – All photos must be taken between September

      26th and November 4th, 2018 by the contestant – specify the exact date and the exact place

(4) A max 250 word explanation of the theme, “Climate Change Impacts” captured in your

      photo, and how it represents human or physical geography in Trinidad and Tobago.

Submissions should be sent to the Geography Awareness team at geog.uwi@gmail.com. Each student is allowed a maximum of two entries. Follow our Social Media pages:

✓ FB. facebook.com/groups/uwista.geography/

✓ IG uwistageography

✓ BLOG https://geographyawareness.blogspot.com

Like and share the photo competition post on social media, tag your friends. Incomplete entries will NOT be considered. Photos will be judged on their quality as well as their description. The Department of Geography reserves the right to refuse to award prizes in the case where insufficient entries, or entries of a substandard quality, have been submitted.

JUDGING

Photographs will be judged on the following criteria:

• Quality
• Meaning
• Graphics/Artistic Effects
• Written Description

PRIZES

Contest winners will be notified through their School Principals. Winners will be invited to the National Photo Competition Awards Ceremony at the UWI-STA Campus to receive prizes. Please refer to the Calendar of Events for further details.

1ST PRIZE:

• The First Prize Winner will receive a digital camera plus a package.

• The First prize photo may appear in promotional activities for all future Geography Awareness         Week events and may be used by The UWI-STA Geography Department in perpetuity along with the Winner’s name and their composition, or excerpts thereof.

• The First Prize Winner’s School will receive a framed photo of the winning entry to commemorate their participation in the UWI-STA Geography Awareness Week, 2018.

2ND PRIZE:

• The Second Prize Winner will receive $400TT plus a package.

• The Second prize photo may appear in promotional activities for all future Geography Awareness Week events and may be used by The UWI-STA Geography Department in perpetuity along with the Winner’s name and their composition, or excerpts thereof.

• The Second Prize Winner’s School will receive a framed photo of the winning entry to commemorate their participation in the UWI-STA Geography Awareness Week, 2018.

3RD PRIZE:

• The Third Prize Winner will receive $200TT plus a package.

• The Third prize photo may appear in promotional activities for all future Geography Awareness Week events and may be used by The UWI-STA Geography Department in perpetuity along with the Winner’s name and their composition, or excerpts thereof.

• The Third Prize Winner’s School will receive a framed photo of the winning entry to commemorate their participation in the UWI-STA Geography Awareness Week, 2018.

To complete your entry, email the Geography Awareness team at geog.uwi@gmail.com with your photo attached, along with the acknowledgement that all contest rules (Section 2) have been met. You will receive an automatic acknowledgement of your email.

Note: All photos may appear in promotional activities for all future Geography Awareness Week events and be used by the UWI-STA Geography Department in perpetuity along with the names of the students, teachers, schools, the full composition, or excerpts thereof.

Geography Awareness Week 2018

Each year the Department of Geography at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, joins the international community in celebrating Geography Awareness Week. This is an annual celebration of the important role of Geography as a discipline and in our lives. This year our theme is 'Climate Change Impacts', where we challenge students and teachers to investigate how climate change manifests on a local scale and to consider the environmental impacts of our actions. We invite you to join us on this wonderful journey once again, as we count down the days to celebrate this uniquely diverse discipline November 11th to 17th, 2018!