Energize Connecticut has launched its ninth annual eesmarts contest for students to showcase their ideas about energy efficiency, renewable power, and sustainability.
The contest is run through electric utilities Connecticut Light & Power and United Illuminating where the K-12 students with the best ideas receive individual prizes as well as grants to turn their ideas into reality.
Students are asked to answer grade-level specific questions about efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainability in a poster, limerick, news articles, song lyrics, persuasive essay, public service announcement, speech, or small business proposal. Entries are due April 26.
The best ideas in grades 9-11 will receive up to $2,000 in grants from the utilities and Connecticut organizations the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Hampshire Foundation, and the Common Sense Fund to turn their community-based ideas into real-world projects.
Those in grades K-11 receive iPads, Kindle Fires, Amazon gift cars, and museum season passes.
The winners will be honored June 11 at the State Capitol in Hartford.
