2008 Earth Day Poetry Contest Winners

2010 Earth Day Poetry Contest

Coati Kids Club
of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

is proud to sponsor an Earth Day Poetry Contest for school children grades 1-6.

All are invited to participate. A winner from each grade level will be chosen.

Each student who would like to enter should write a poem about the Sonoran Desert. This can be about how this place is their home, or animals, plants, endangered species, the landscape - whatever is important to that student - and may reflect observations, feelings, hopes and/or concerns that the student has about the world in which we live.

Teachers: please send in all entries from your classes with students' names, their grade level, the name of your school, your name, and a phone number where we can contact you. Only individual student entries will be accepted. No class entries.

Poems should be submitted (postmarked) to the address below by March 11, 2010*:
ASDM Coati Kids Club
2021 N. Kinney Road
Tucson, AZ 85743
*Please send a self-addressed stamped envelope if you want us to return your entries

Entries will be judged on originality and content. Teachers of winning entries will be notified by March 31, 2010. Winners' families and classmates will be invited to a reception and reading of the winning entries at the Desert Museum on April 18th, 2010. The winner from each grade will win a 2010 membership to the Coati Kids' Club and all of its benefits including:

One overall winner will receive a free ASDM outreach program to their class in May!!! (limited to Tucson area schools)

The reception and reading will be held from 2 - 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 18th. Winners, families, and classmates will receive invitations and passes for free admission to the Museum for the event.

For additional information call the ASDM Education Department at (520) 883-3034. See other winners here

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