Regrettably, there will be no Going Green school competition in the 2023/24 school year, as the operation of the platform will be limited due to lack of staff.

Boost your students' motivation, connect with your community

Participating in the competition is an excellent opportunity to boost student motivation and recognize their achievements. We want them to know that their ideas and actions are relevant to their community and beyond. From teacher and student feedback we have learned that in most cases, student engagement to produce an action plan exceeded their teachers’ expectations (and ours included) by far! Many participants saw their action plans and project outcomes featured in local newspaper articles and radio reports, at school festivities and even town hall meetings.

Everyone can participate

We would like to emphasize that participants are encouraged to submit their contributions, regardless of class grade or school level or even the type of action plan. The competition categories are usually formed after receiving the submission, reflecting the open character of the contribution. As educators ourselves, we understand that a poster should not have to compete with a complete website and social media campaign, that some participants naturally will have more time to prepare their action plans than others, and that young learners (in 2014, a grade-six course from Aalen won one of the awards!) will produce different outcomes than, for example, a year twelve AP English course.

How to submit your action plan

In order to take part in the Going Green student competition, your students (one representative) or you will have to submit your course's contribution electronically by the submission deadline. Just follow these steps: 

1. While logged-in, enter the Virtual Town Hall. 
2. Go to the section ‘Your sustainability action plans’ and enter the DATABASE: Your sustainability action plan. 
3. Click on "Add entry" and fill out the form. Here you can directly upload a product or share a link (e.g. to a video, a bog, a cloud-based server etc.). 

If—for whatever reason—your upload fails, you may also submit your group’s contribution via e-mail to Katja Krüger (krueger@life-online.de). The contributions will be reviewed by an expert jury and members of the Teach About U.S. team.

Action plans

Take a look at the remarkable student action plans from past project cycles.

 Action plans

Competition results

Review the outcomes of our previous school competitions in our blog.

 Competition results