Aging Initiative

To enter the contest, you must work as a team with a person from a generation older or younger than yourself.

Please provide all information needed below to enter the contest and send it to the appropriate address below, or include the information requested in an email submission with the team entry.

I.    Contest Category

• Poetry
• Essay
• Photography
• Mixed (photography and poem or essay)

II.   Intergenerational Team

Team members:

• Related
• Relationship: (i.e. parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, great aunt, etc.)
• Unrelated

III.  Information of Intergenerational Team Members

Please note: One email address per team is sufficient and it is not necessary to have an email address to enter the contest.  These email addresses will not be distributed and are only for EPA staff to notify finalists and winners.

First Team Member
First Name: _______________________
Middle Initial: _____
Last Name: _______________________
Street Address: ____________________
City: ____________________________
State: _______
Zip Code:___________________________
Email Address: ______________________
Phone Number: (_ _ _) (_ _ _ -_ _ _ _)
Age:  _____

Second Team Member
First Name: _______________________
Middle Initial: _____
Last Name: _______________________
Street Address: ____________________
City: ____________________________
State: _______
Zip Code:___________________________
Email Address: ______________________
Phone Number: (_ _ _) (_ _ _ -_ _ _ _)
Age:  _____

IV. Intergenerational Description of Joint Project (up to 50 words)

You may want to describe how you teamed up, how the project was planned, and how it was carried out.
Working as an intergenational team, what made this a special project?

V. Celebration of Rachel Carson’s Sense of Wonder (up to 50 words)

Describe how this project brought the intergenerational team in touch with nature or the natural world

 

One entry per team, per medium (essay, photo, or poem).

Please email your poem or essay, hard copy by mail or electronic copy by email to

US EPA
Attn: Kathy Sykes, OCHPEE,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Room 2512 AR N,
Washington, DC 20460
or electronically to aging.info@epa.gov with Rachel Carson Contest in the Subject box of the email

If you have further questions please contact Kathy Sykes at (202) 564-3651.

Please send your photo entry electronically to:
Generations United
gu@gu.org with Rachel Carson Contest in the subject box of the email 

The deadline for entries is Wednesday, June 24, 2009.