2023 Poster Contest Guidelines

Resources

Stop by the district office or go online for fun and useful resources in planning your poster. 

One Water Curriculum 

Watershed Booklet K-1

Watershed Booklet 2-3

Watershed Booklet 4-5

Watershed Booklet 6-8

Educator Guide

The Wood SWCD is offering an opportunity for Wood County students to create a poster focusing on a conservation message. "One Water" is the theme for this year's contest.  Bodies of water are all connected. Every drop that falls become part of one water. Learn how we all live in a watershed. 

The student posters representing each grade category will be judged at the county level. The county winners will be selected for the state competition.  Officials from the state will then select winners to move on to the national competition. 

County winners from each grade category will be awarded a prize from Wood SWCD. 

Who Can Participate? The poster contest is open to all public, private, and home-schooled students in grades K-12.

Age Categories:
K—1st Grade
2nd—3rd Grade
4th—6th Grade
7th—9th Grade
10th—12th Grade

Each entry must have signed entry form to be eligible for judging.

entry form

​Deadline

• Entries must be received by Wood SWCD no later than Friday, May 5, 2023, by 4 PM.
• Entries can be mailed to or dropped off at the Wood SWCD office: 1616 E. Wooster St. Suite 32 Bowling Green, OH  43402 
• Posters sent straight to the state or national contest will NOT be judged. They must be judged in the county contest in order to advance.

Judging Guidelines

• Conservation message (poster uses correct theme) (50%)
• Visual effectiveness (30%
• Originality (10%) and
• Universal appeal (10%)

Contest Rules

• Any media may be used- paint, crayon, colored pencil, charcoal, stickers, paper or other materials on regular posters.
• All posters must be created by an individual student rather than a team of students.
• Poster size: The poster can be any size; but no larger than 11X17. State winners will be photographed or scanned and sent to the national contest.
• The 2023 Stewardship theme “One Water” ​must be on your poster.
• All posters must be hand drawn by an individual student, rather than a team of students. Entry must be contestant's original creation and may not be traced from photographs or other artists' published work
• Although younger students will most likely receive help in planning from parents or teachers, NACD encourages each student to do as much of the work as possible by him/herself. Entries completed by students in their own writing and coloring will score better than those designed, drawn and colored by adult assistance.

All entries will be displayed at the Wood Soil & Water Conservation District office and on the website, and may be used during events, in newsletters, on social media, etc. 

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Thank you to the participants of the 2022 poster contest.

Congratulations to Briley on her winning poster.  Her poster was submitted to the state competition held in Columbus.  The winning poster of state competition will be submitted to the national competition to be held in New Orleans with the winners to be announced at the NACD Annual Meeting in February 2023.

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