Environmental Contest for Middle and High School Students from Lexus & Scholastic

Lexus and Scholastic’s Lexus Eco Challenge is designed to inspire and empower middle and high school students to learn about the environment and take action to improve it. $500,000 in grants and scholarships is on the table.

Middle and high school teams (5-10 students + one teacher advisor) participate in one or both of the contest’s challenges. Each addresses different environmental elements — land/water and air/climate. Tams define an environmental issue that is important to them, develop an action plan to address the issue, implement the plan, and report the results.

The submission deadline for Challenge One (Land/Water) is November 3, 2010. The deadline for Challenge Two (Air/Climate) is January 19, 2011.

Each challenge identifies 16 winning teams which each receive a total of $10,000 in scholarships and grants to be shared among the students, teacher, and school. Winning teams from the first two challenges then participate in the Final Challenge, reaching beyond the local community for the remainder of the prize money.

Complete program information, competition guidelines, and educational materials are available at the Scholastic web site.