Contests and Challenges

Contests

There are lots of opportunities to participate in Maine Composts Week contests. Scroll down the page for more information on the challenges listed below.

  • Composting Advertisement Video
  • Do-It-Yourself Compost Bin Competition
  • Compost Selfie
  • Waste in Your Backpack
  • Digital Poster
  • Mason Jar Challenge
  • Hand-Drawn Art Poster
  • Share Table Selfie

Composting Advertisement Video

  • Time limit of 30 seconds
  • May use any digital manipulation, editing, or other tactic to make the video
  • Must be submitted in MP4, MOV, or WMV format
  • Standard decency applies, if you couldn’t use this for a school project appropriately then it will be rejected

Hand-Drawn Art Poster

  • No size requirements. Can be an 8.5″x11″ piece of paper or a large canvas.
  • It may be on a thicker than standard paper (oak tag for instance)
  • Landscape or portrait orientation both acceptable
  • All content must be drawn with no electronic or digital assistance
  • Any medium may be used (color pencils, crayons, color pastels,paint, charcoal,etc.)
  • Contest age ranges: 0-6, 7-10, 11-14, 15-18, 19-39, 40-59, 60+

Waste in Your Backpack

  • Carry around all the materials that you’d normally throw away in your backpack for 5 days (Monday @ 8:00am-Friday @ 2:00pm, including nights

***For this to be one effectively you should be composting this week!

  • You may recycle, but only if it is an acceptable material
  • At the end of the week take a picture of your “Trash” and post it to the Maine Composts Week Facebook, Twitter, or Instragram page with the hashtag #wasteinmybackpackchallenge
  • You can also upload your photo in the form below.

**It is recommended you take effort to purchase your food wisely this week as packaging matters!

Compost Selfie

  • Take an unaltered picture of you (any others) composting. This can be at any part of the process from collection all the way to your bin
  • Save the picture as a .jpeg or .png file

Digital Poster

  • Any images must be open-source to be included in the submission
  • Any un-original aspect of the poster can each only be 20% of the poster
  • Design for a 8.5”x11” standard letter size piece of paper
  • Landscape or portrait orientation fine both acceptable
  • All content must be digitally generated (i.e. no hand-drawn aspect)
  • Any electronic program or tool may be used to aid in creating this poster
  • We request individuals, in particular younger students, exclusively work on their submission. Their hand should be on the mouse and keyboard at all times during the creation of the poster
  • Contest age ranges: 0-10, 11-14, 15-18, 19+

Share Table Selfie

If your school has set up a Share Table in your cafeteria, this is your chance to make it famous.

  • Take an un-altered picture of your school’s Share Table. Use this selfie as an opportunity to show what students place on the Share Table.
  • The 3 categories for this contest: Individuals or Groups/Classes in Elementary, Middle and High School
  • Save your photo as a .jpeg or.png file.

Mason Jar Challenge

This week you are limited to throwing away in total only what would fit in a Mason Jar! (Monday @ 8:00am-Friday @ 2:00pm, including nights!)

***For this to be done effectively you should be composting this week!

  • You may recycle, but only if it is an acceptable material
  • At the end of the week take a picture of the “Trash” in your Mason Jar and post it to the Maine Composts Week Facebook, Twitter, or Instragram page with the hashtag #masonjarchallenge
  • You can also Submit your photo in the form below.

**It is recommended you take effort to purchase your food wisely this week as packaging matters!

Do-It-Yourself Compost Bin Competition

  • Take a picture of your compost bin
  • Create a small list of the key materials you used to create it (ignore common things like screws and nails)
  • Save the picture as a .jpeg or .png file