The Pickens Soil & Water Conservation District’s
2008 Conservation Essay Contest
"Water is Life"
Grades: 5 - 8
Cash prizes awarded to each grade
First Place: $40
Second Place: $30
Third Place: $20
Nature recycles water in an endless cycle. The water you used to brush your teeth today may have been a water molecule used by dinosaurs. All the water that will ever be is the water we have today. Water flows in watersheds - you’re sitting in one now. The pants you’re sitting in also required almost 2000 gallons of water to make. Where did that water go? How will that water be recycled? Join us in the 2008 Stewardship; share your ideas and express your creativity, knowledge, feelings and values relative to conservation and why "Water is Life".
Guidelines:
Contest is open to Pickens County students, Grades 5-8.
Do not use folders, report covers or notebooks.
A cover sheet must be included with the essay and MUST show:
Essay Title, Student’s Full Name & Home Address,
Grade, School and Teacher’s Name
Essays must be written in ink or typed.
Use 8 1/2" x 11" white paper, one side only.
Length: 300-500 words for 5th & 6th Graders
500-700 words for 7th & 8th Graders
Essays cannot be returned.
Winners will be notified in writing.
Photograph of winners will be published.
Essays not meeting all of the above guidelines will be disqualified.
Topics to consider:
Amount of Water on Earth
The Water Cycle
The State of Water: Solid, Liquid, Gas
Watersheds
Groundwater
Drinking Water
Water in Your Everyday Life
Drought
Flooding
Mail or Deliver Essays to:
Pickens Soil & Water Conservation District
PO Box 245; 144 McDaniel Avenue
Pickens, SC 29671
878-6155
Deadline:
Essays must be in our office no later than March 6, 2008.