EGLE invited students in kindergarten through 5^th grade to enter the annual Michigan Earth Day Poster Contest! Prizes are awarded for 1^st and 2^nd place winners in each grade.

Students should have included wildlife, plants, land, or freshwater ecosystems native to Michigan in their Earth Day2024 Poster. In recognition of the 50^th anniversary of the Safe Drinking Water Act in 2024, we also accepted posters that highlight the importance of safe drinking water and source water protection and awarded one 1^{st place} winner for each grade for this category.

Contest rules

• Posters can be hand-drawn or created on a computer. Each poster must be uniquely created by one student. If fashioned by hand, the submitter must take a photo of it and save it to a JPG file.
• Each school will hold their own contest and submit only the top three (3) posters per grade (K-5) for each school.
• The poster JPG file must be inserted into the PowerPoint template provided and submitted electronically by March 15, 2024 to EGLE-EarthDay@Michigan.gov.The email submission must contain the name, title, address for the sender and for the school. The contest only excepts submissions that contain the correct power point slide, with the poster JPG file.
• For judging purposes, a horizontal or landscape orientation is recommended for the poster because it presents better in a Microsoft PowerPoint slide.

Posters were judged based on the student’s creative use of native Michigan wildlife, plants, land, freshwater ecosystems, or depiction of the importance of clean drinking water. The winning posters will be posted the week of April 22, 2024.

Thank you to the MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources for sponsoring the Earth Day Poster Contest!