Young creative minds across the Gauteng province are urged to enter a competition aimed at exploring water as the planet’s lifeblood.
The 500 Words Storytelling Competition, which is part of the H2O Today exhibition currently on display at the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in Newtown, aims to explore the beauty and essential nature of water.
It examines the diversity and challenges of water sources worldwide and promotes conversation, creativity and innovation through art, science and technology.
According to Cynthia Mohohlo, the communications manager at the centre, the competition is also meant to create awareness around saving water. “This is another initiative to raise awareness on water as a critical resource for life, thus we call all learners to participate.
“With the growing concern about the water crisis and droughts experienced in parts of South Africa, we want to encourage learners to read and learn more on water scarcity, we want to teach them about strategies of preserving water in new and exciting ways,” she said.
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“The competition is looking at a particular kind of creativity that includes ways of using or recycling water, preserving this commodity as well as the importance of it in general. Children from the age of six to 18 years old are invited to put pen to paper, get creative and write a 500-word story with a water theme in any South African language to [stand a chance to] win awesome prizes for themselves and their schools.”
The of the gold category (first prize) winner will receive a tablet and a desktop computer for the school the learner attends.
Mohohlo added that the winner of the silver category will win a Kindle e-reader with 100 books for the school’s library, while the bronze winner will receive a R500 Exclusive Books voucher and 50 books for the school’s library.
Interested young writers can email their story to 500words@h2otoday.com or hand it in at the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre reception in Newtown before or on 6 March. Winners will be announced on 22 March. For more information about the competition, visit www.sci-bono.co.za/500-words.html
Details: Sci-Bono Discovery Centre 071 3457 276.
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