NEWS RELEASE
CLIMATESCIENCE OLYMPIAD
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TORONTO - Claire McPhee, 23 from Toronto, and a dedicated young group of volunteers from around the world are working hard to organize the first ever ClimateScience Olympiad, an online competition for students to come up with solutions to climate change. The winners split prize money of US$10,000.
Inspired by the International Mathematical and Physics Olympiads, Claire and her team are providing participants the opportunity to showcase their creative abilities, while developing critical thinking skills needed to ensure their future success and to build a better world.
The ClimateScience Olympiad further addresses a gap that existed in the international science olympiad sphere.
Claire reflected on this: “There are lots of student competitions on the sciences, but none of them focus on real global problems humanity needs to solve. That’s why we created the ClimateScience Olympiad. Young people are creative and we want to see what they can come up with.”
With qualifiers running from now until September 2021 entirely online, the ClimateScience Olympiad provides ample time and opportunity for young people from every corner of the world to participate.
Another organizing youth, Ghislaine Fandel, 22, said: "I meet so many people my age, and know that there are so many young people all around the world who are looking to play an active role in tackling climate change. We heard them and decided to provide an opportunity that would empower them to do just that."
Claire adds: “It is such a wonderful opportunity for people my age to be a part of something bigger. Sure, the prize pool is a nice incentive, but for me it’s really about uniting young people in every village, town and city around the world in the imagination of climate change solutions.”
For more information and to register, visit here or contact us at [email protected].
ClimateScience is a UK-based charity creating free climate education resources that are engaging, understandable and backed by science. Our courses, children’s books, YouTube videos and social media accounts focus on solutions to climate change and through them, we aim to empower youth to take positive climate action. Beyond our resources, we engage youth in climate problem-solving events, most notably our 2021 global Olympiad, in order to inspire future climate leaders.
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