Prizes for March Monitoring Month/Koura Kraze 2008

This year you will be rewarded by participating in March Monitoring Month or Koura Kraze with access to over $5000 dollars worth of prizes thanks to the SciTech NZ and BOC 'Where there's water' Community Environmental Grants scheme.

What can you win prizes for?

You may like to write a story about your local creek or river, take photos, create some art or a poster, or even develop a PowerPoint or a video.  It could be an individual project, or a class project.  The choice if yours!  All projects will be accepted. There is a plethora of ideas in our MMM activities.  Click here.

Additionally this year we have on offer prizes in the following categories

1) Best dragonfly drawing/story

2) Best group photo of students involved in MMM/KK

3) Most enthusiastic teacher involved in MMM (we want students to nominate and tell us why their teacher was so great)

4) Best muddy picture out in the field

5) GLOBE activities around MMM/KK

This year major prizes will be awarded to best video clip/powerpoint of March Monitoring Month/Koura Kraze activities AND to class portfolios of March Monitoring Month work.

What can you win?  - Over $5000 worth of prizes!

      

• Pollution detective kits (valued at $50 )
• Koura copper art work (valued at $120)
  
• A proscope (valued at $400)
  
• A large remote controlled dragonfly toy ($180)
  
• Digital cameras
• Fish identification books
• Clarity tube, pH paper and net sets (valued at $210)
  

Some of the wonderful spot prizes you can be into win!!!!

To be in to win, send your projects to:

Attention: Rebecca Goffin
EMAP
PO Box 598
WELLINGTON 6011

Or email them to rebecca.goffin@rsnz.org

Each school that submits a project will receive something in return to support their waterways work, and major prizes will be awarded for the most outstanding submissions in all age groups as judged by an independent selection panel.

Koura Kraze

There will be a major prize for the Best Photo. Email your photo to rebecca.goffin@rsnz.org

Everyone who submits data into the Koura Kraze database  will also be eligible for the $5000 dollars worth of prizes available.

All projects must be received by the end of Term One (April 18th 2008)

Some projects selected will be profiled on the EMAP.

Thanks to the SciTech NZ and New Zealand Water and Wastes Association for generous sponsorship of these prizes.