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The deadline is quick approaching for this 12 months’s Art of Conservation Florida Fish Art Contest, hosted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). This contest is open to youth in grades kindergarten via 12 from throughout the state. The deadline to enter is Feb. 28.
Students from Florida can win prime honors, worldwide recognition and prizes whereas studying about fish, fishing and aquatic conservation. The Art of Conservation evokes younger folks to become involved within the nice outside and ignites a ardour to develop into lifelong activists for the pure world.
Two first-place winners will likely be chosen for every grade bracket (kindergarten via third grade, fourth via sixth grade, seventh via ninth grade, and 10 via twelfth grade), one for illustrating the most effective freshwater fish species and one for the most effective saltwater fish species. All first-place winners will advance to the nationwide competitors to be judged for prime prizes, together with Best of Show. The deadline to enter is Feb. 28.
To enter, college students from Florida ought to submit their entry at Wildlife Forever – Florida Art, consisting of the next:
• An authentic piece of art work that includes any fish together with a number of of the next Florida native species from the identical class:
— Category 1 – Freshwater: largemouth bass, striped bass, black crappie, bluegill, redear sunfish, noticed sunfish, channel catfish, Forida gar, chain pickerel, bowfin
— Category 2 – Saltwater: snook, redfish, noticed seatrout, flounder, tarpon, mahi-mahi, Spanish mackerel, hogfish, queen snapper, black grouper
• A chunk of artistic writing, now not than one web page, in regards to the chosen species (required for grades 4-12).
• A Florida State-Fish Art Contest entry kind.
Source: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
