2024-2025 Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW) Illustrated Poem Contest
Glaciers: Hot Topic & Cool Chemistry
The New Haven Chapter Local Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is sponsoring an illustrated poem contest for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
Contest Deadline: April 25, 2025
Eligibility: grades K-12 in New Haven county
Submission: Click to Submit
Contact: Juhyon Kang, jkang@newhaven.edu
Write and illustrate a poem using the CCEW theme, “Glaciers: Hot Topic & Cool Chemistry”
Your poem must be no more than 40 words and in the following styles to be considered:
HAIKU – LIMERICK – ODE – ABC POEM – FREE VERSE – END RHYME – BLANK VERSE
Key concepts related to the chemistry of glaciers include:
• Glaciers reflect light to keep the world cooler.
• Glaciers are an indicator of Earth’s health.
• Glaciers provide a historical record of the Earth’s environmental history – in particular, how CO2 varied
from year to year over hundreds of millennia.
• Glaciers carved the Great Lakes and sculpted other geographical features.
• Glaciers store more than 2/3 of the world’s freshwater according to the USGS.
Entries will be judged based upon:
• Artistic Merit – use of color, quality of drawing, design, and layout
• Poem Message – fun, motivational, inspiring about yearly theme
• Originality Creativity – unique, clever and/or creative design
• Neatness – free of spelling and grammatical errors
Contest rules:
• Do not place participant names on the front of your poem
• Entries are judged based upon relevance to and incorporation of the CCEW theme, word choice and imagery, colorful artwork, adherence to poem
style, originality and creativity, and overall presentation.
• All entries must be original works without aid from others. Poems may be submitted by hand on an unlined sheet of paper not larger than 11” by 14” or scanned and sent via email. Illustrations may be created using crayons, watercolors, other types of paint, colored pencils, or markers. The illustration may also be electronically created by using a digital painting and drawing app on a computer, tablet, or mobile device.
• The text of the poem should be easy to read and may be typed before the hand-drawn or digital illustration is added, or the poem may be written on lined paper, which is cut out and pasted onto
the unlined paper with the illustration.
• No clipart or unoriginal images can be used.
• Only one entry per student will be accepted; all entries must include an entry form. If the illustration is created using a digital painting or drawing app, the name of the program must be included on the entry form.
• Acceptance of prizes constitutes consent to use winners’ first name, and entry for editorial, advertising, and publicity purposes.