Climate Change Art Contest winner, Chayse Graydon, 18.
Montgomery County announced the 13 winners of its Climate Change Art Contest. The contest encouraged community members of all ages to use artistic forms of expression to show the connections between climate change and our daily lives.
The winning entries will be featured on the pages of the County’s Climate Action Plan (CAP). The County’s strategic plan has goals to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80 percent by 2027, by 100 percent by 2035 and reduce climate-related risk.
The winners were selected across the following five categories and prompts:
- Engage! - What is the connection between community and climate?
- Sound the Climate Alarm! - Capture the emergency of climate change
- Adaptation - How can our community adapt to a rapidly changing world?
- Environmental/Climate Justice - Capture who will be disproportionately impacted by climate change’s effects.
- Future vision of Montgomery County - What the County would look like in 2035 if we meet our GHG goals in an equitable way.
The contest winners and the categories in which they were selected:
- Avani Ambardekar (Future Vision of Montgomery County)
- Eunice Ewusie (Future Vision of Montgomery County)
- Shani Glassberg (Engage)
- Chayse Graydon (Engage)
- Ami Hernandez (Sound the Climate Alarm)
- Samantha Kent (Sound the Climate Alarm)
- Reagan Lentz (Environmental/Climate Justice)
- Sophia Liang (Environmental/Climate Justice)
- Laney Parker (Sound the Climate Alarm)
- Yoonah Suh (Sound the Climate Alarm)
- Krish Wahi (Adaptation)
- Lillian Weisburger (Sound the Climate Alarm)
- Alexandra Wu (Adaptation)
The winning entries can be viewed at https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/green/Resources/Files/climate/climate-change-art-contest-winners.pdf
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