“Capture The Earth” Student Video And Photo Contests Announced

The Energy and Environment Cabinet today announced two contests to protect the environment and to celebrate Earth Day.

For middle school students, the “Capture the Earth” photo contest seeks original photographs and for high school students, the “Capture the Earth” video contest seeks original videos. Both contests seek to celebrate the beauty and diversity of Kentucky.

Submissions should attempt to move viewers to care about the environment in Kentucky. The deadline for submissions for both contests is April 7, 2017 at 4:30 p.m.

You can enter the photo contest by sending your photo as an attachment to kidsphotocontest@ky.gov. Your photograph must be saved as a jpeg file. File sizes may not exceed 5MB. The subject line of your email should read STUDENT EARTH DAY PHOTO CONTEST.

You can enter the video contest by uploading your video to YouTube, making it public and emailing the link to: Lanny.Brannock@ky.gov. Your video must be saved as a YouTube link.

The subject line of your email should read STUDENT EARTH DAY VIDEO CONTEST.

For more details about the contest, please visit the Facebook page.

Additional information is available at http://eec.kentucky.gov