Congratulations to Seaquam students who won 7 out of a possible 18 awards in the high school category at the recent YRE Canada Competition, a national environmental education program that offers youth the opportunity to raise awareness and advocacy on local environmental/climate issues through critical thinking, creativity, and reporting.
There are three categories – video, photography and writing, and two age groups, 11-14 and 15-18. Participants investigate and report on environmental issues, and propose solutions, by using video, photography, or writing.
| Photography Age 11-14 |
Photography Age 15-18 |
| Manraj -1st place
Emma and Phoebe – 2nd place Hafsah and Gunika-3rd place |
Tanya and Gurmehar -1st place
Sohaan- 2nd place Buvan and Cohen- 3rd place |
| Essay/Article Age 15-18 |
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| Sanya- 3rd place |
To see their winning entries, please visit: https://ecoschools.ca/yre/winners-2025/
This year’s 1st place winners will receive a prize package from National Geographic and will become Canada’s official entry in the 2025 International YRE competition http://www.yre.global/ against winners from other nations. The YRE international competition winners will be announced later this year from the competition headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark.
YRE Canada is part of Young Reporters for the Environment – an international program by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE). For more information on the YRE Canada competition please visit: https://ecoschools.ca/yre/
Over 500,000 students in 44 countries have been involved in the YRE program where 19,000 photos, articles and videos are submitted to annual national competitions every year.
Students and their teacher Michael Iachetta with Board Vice Chair Val Windsor