News Release
For immediate release
June 15, 2007
YOUNG ONTARIANS SHOW McGUINTY GOVERNMENT THEIR
IDEAS ABOUT HOW TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE
Students Across Ontario Win Prizes For Art, Essays And Videos
On How To Stop Climate Change
TORONTO — Ontario Premier and Minister of Research and
Innovation, Dalton McGuinty, along with Environment Minister
Laurel Broten, today announced the winners of province-wide climate
change contests.
“I am pleased to congratulate the winners and all the participants
of this year’s Clean Air and Climate Change student contests,” said
Premier McGuinty. “These exceptional students have taken
the time to show Ontarians what actions we can all take right
now to fight climate change and ensure our kids have all the
opportunities we dream for them.”
Sponsored by the ministries, the contests, which ran earlier
this year, asked Ontario’s students to “Show us how
you can save the planet” by coming up with their own solutions
to climate change and air pollution. The submissions were in
the form of artwork for primary schools and essay or videos for
secondary schools. The Ministry of the Environment received almost
3,500 submissions within six weeks of launching the contests.
“The fact is, if each one of us takes both big and small
(but important) steps to reduce our environmental footprint,
it’s going to add up. It’s going to make a big difference … for
our planet … and for future generations of Ontarians, “said
Broten. “The McGuinty government understands this. Thousands
of informed and engaged youth across Ontario are telling us that
they get it too.”
The contests were judged by Carolyn Rayfield, Executive Director
of Sci-Tech Ontario (http://www.scitechontario.org/) and Denny
Manchee, Learning Grounds Deputy Program Manager at Evergreen
(http://www.evergreen.ca/).
In addition, the art contest was judged by Douglas Worts, Interpretive
Planner of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Education Division
(http://www.ago.net), the video contest was judged by Candida
Paltiel, Festival Director, Planet in Focus environmental film
festival and the essay contest was judged by Sara Graham, Managing
Editor, Youth Culture Group (http://www.youthculture.com/), publishers
of Vervegirl, Fuel, desperado and B-Zone magazines for children
and youth.
“These contests gave us a glimpse into the creative minds
of Ontario’s future environmental leaders,” added
Broten. "If this work is any indication, the province is
in very good hands."
For more information, including the complete list of contest
winners bios and work, please see the attached
Backgrounder: Climate Change Contest Winners.
Winning entries are available for viewing online at obviously.ca,
Ontario.ca/ezone and sharedair.ca.
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