With Earth Day approaching, several clubs have teamed up to sponsor an essay contest, meant to correspond with a number of Earth Day related events scheduled to happen on Sinclair Community College’s campus.
The contest is sponsored by Sinclair Student Government, the Green Machine Club, The Ohio Fellows and the Office of Campus Ministry, is open to all Sinclair students.
According to Ohio Fellows Advisor Tom Roberts, the “winning essays will be the ones that best answer the question: ‘why do we call earth, Mother Earth?’”
First, second and third place prizes will be awarded to winning essays, which will be announced during the Earth Day celebration that takes place on April 21.
Roberts said the winning essays be displayed in the Ponnie Kendall Center in Building 8 for people to view, and may be read aloud at the Earth Day celebration.
“We thought it would be a good idea to invite students to talk about what mother earth means to them, and to invite people to think about why we do actually call earth ‘mother earth,’” Roberts said.
Essays should be between 600 – 800 words in length and must be submitted to Thomas.Roberts@sinclair.edu by April 11. Check out the Clarion edition, on stands April 14 for more details on the various events and clubs involved in the April 21 Earth Day celebrations.