My Green Home Contest Winners
Some of you may be looking at the title of this post and saying, “Huh? That was never a contest in OWL!” That’s true. Let me explain.
The “My Green Home Contest” was open to the kids who attended the series of presentations we put on recently at Willowbrook Shopping Centre in Langley, B.C. The results were pretty cool, and I thought I’d share them with you.
Before I do, though, I thought I’d fill you in on the rules. Entrants had to draw their own vision for a sustainable house from the future and tell us all about it. Also, they had only about 15 minutes to do it in. Not a lot of time!
So! Now that that’s settled, take a look below for the grand-prize winner and the two runners-up (click on each to see an enlarged version).
1. Grand-prize winner: Kaitlyn, 12
For this one, judges were really impressed with the fact that the living space is raised up, which leaves a lot of extra room for the garden and green house below. It also looks like it can pack in a lot of people, which creates less need for materials and energy to create homes elsewhere.
2. Runner-up: Benjamin J., 11
Some of the labels will be tough to see on here, but this entry turned the entire city green with such ideas as a weather-powered car, solar-powered radio, and a compost-powered heating and cooling system.
3. Runner-up: Olivia D., 9
This one popped out to judges because it showed both the inside and outside of the house, and all the green features of each: such as a bouncy floor (#1) that powers the house when you walk on it and a skylight (#7) on the house’s roof.
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Cool! What do you think, blog readers? Would you like to see a contest like this in the pages of OWL? Any other contest ideas? (Way back when, a blog reader named Katherine suggested we do a word search contest, and that idea made it into the magazine. So suggest away!)
Talk to you tomorrow!
Craig, owlblog@owlkids.com
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Oh my gosh, I think the third one is my little sister’s friend, Her name is Olivia D., she is nine, and she lives near Langley. Whhhhhoa! Who here has read the Hunger Games? I’ve read the seiries twice, and the first is my favorite. To turn my love of acting and directing into something productive, I’m going to make my own Hunger Games movie. I’m going to try to make it as proffetionall (don’t know how to spell it! I’ve been in french immersion since grade one!) as possible. Does anyone have any suggestions? Anything would be really great. Thanks so much!
One thing is that you can’t have any background noise. Try not use an echo-y room to film; I will make a difference. If you are doing some filming outside, there’s three things you need to watch. First, you can’t have somebody in the background who doesn’t know they’re being filmed. Second, you have to make it look as realistic as you can. For example, if a scene is in a park, you can’t have 1) extras smiling and looking straight at the camera, 2) too little extras,it will look like somebody’s living in a deserted town/city, 3) too many extras; it will like there’s a major event happening. So basically, you can’t have anything that will interfere with the storyline. One more thing; pros ALWAYS have appropriate music for the right time.
I hope this helps, Madeleine!♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
-Kaitlyn =)
P.S. I have never read the Hunger Games. Sorry=( Never heard of it.
Whoops!I forgot to put the third thing in! But now I forget what it is!! Sorry=(
Kaitlyn♡
WOAH!! Cool!
There should be a contest to design the coolest christmas present that you dream of getting.
There should also be a contest where you create what a bedroom would look like in the future.
I think that there should be more photo contests with different topics (eg. animals, nature, people, places, etc)
Yeah! I think so too!
That Kaitlyn is NOT me!!!! Same spelling too! WOW! Kaitlyn did an excellant job! I love it!
Craig, I forgot, again, when the owl blog book club meeting is. This time I WILL mark it down!!
Hey Kaitlyn. No problem! The meeting will be on Tuesday, July 19. To see any of the old book club posts, just click on “Select a Category” on the right-hand side of the blog, and then click “Book Club.”
Okay thanks!
Hi Craig,
Does owl have a book club?
cause i would like to join.
OWL blog does have a book club, and you can consider yourself a member! The book we’re currently reading is Chasing Vermeer. We’re all going to meet back here at the blog on Tuesday, July 19, to talk about it.
Click here to check out past entries from the book club:
http://www.owlkids.com/?cat=72
Thanks for the information!
Hey Craig,
I was away on vacation and didnt have a chance to read the book. :/ I’ll just have to skip this book club and do the next one. Is that ok?
Marissa 😛
Hi Marissa. That’s definitely okay!
However, if you’d like to get just a small taste of the book so you can follow along with the discussion, and maybe jump in if we talk about writing style or anything like that, you can check out an excerpt here:
http://www.scholastic.com/blueballiett/popups/chasingvermeer_excerpt.htm
Otherwise, see you at the next club meeting!
I GOT THE MOST AMAZING IDEA EVER: You must give credit to me. Okay… Maybe on certain type of months or events we have an ONLINE scavenger hunt. You put a certain type of thing around the site. For example, on Easter… You could hide 10 eggs around the whole site including other blogs. It could be posted everywhere! You could hide candy, for Halloween, Eggs for Easter, Birthday things for OWL’s b-day… You could give hints and more! Please reply what you think!
Hello?
WHY DON’T YOU REPLY ME 🙁
Hi Oscar. (And all blog readers.) Just for the record: the weekend is not the best time to ask questions if you want an immediate answer. During the week we’re in front of our computers and on the blogs all day, but not so much on Saturdays or Sundays.
On to other business… thank you for your idea. It’s very neat and if I can figure out how we’d do it on the OWL site, I will definitely give you credit. Our website isn’t very customizable at this point, but we are working on that. Thanks again.