Winners Announcement of the 13th Eco-generation Environmental Essay Competition

 

We would like to express our sincere gratitude for your time and efforts to write an essay for the 13th Eco-generation Environmental Essay Competition: Time for Nature. We feel so proud of the all participants who made great pieces of works, of which were full of creative ideas in regards to the importance on why we should reverse biodiversity loss.

 

 

Jury's Comment       

The future of the world rests on the shoulders of great minds. Such individuals come from all corners of the world with diverse backgrounds. This essay competition showed the great potential of the world’s youth and their views of how the future is being affect by the present. There has never been a better time then now to take opinions of the world and change the outcome of our beautiful Earth.

 

As our Jury mentioned, we received numerous remarkable essays. However, we regret that only the limited number of entries can be chosen as winners. We do appreciate your generous understanding once again.
 
This year, there were a total of 25 winners, including 1 UN Environment Prize winner selected by the UN Environment Programme, 2 Samsung Prize Winners, 3 Eco-generation Prize Winners, and 19 Honorable Mentions out of more than 360 entries from 47 countries. (※ Due to many ties in scores, 19 Honorable Mentions were chosen for this year.)

 
We are happy to announce the winners of the 13th Eco-generation Environmental Essay Competition as below.
 
 
Winners of the 13th Eco-generation Environmental Essay Competition                         

* Click to read the winners' essays.

 

Prize	Name	Country
UN Environment Prize	Katrina Isabela Blanco	Philippines
Samsung Engineering Prize	Ananya Dave	Kenya
Samsung Engineering Prize	KyuRi Kim	Malaysia
Eco-generation Prize	Isna Hanifah	Indonesia
Eco-generation Prize	Kalia Jawahir	Trinidad and Tobago
Eco-generation Prize	Phoenix Chandra	Indonesia
Honorable Mentions	Ashna D	India
Honorable Mentions	Austin Yang	United States Of America
Honorable Mentions	Grace Swenson	United States Of America
Honorable Mentions	HUMPHREY MREMA	Tanzania
Honorable Mentions	Ifrah Kamil	Pakistan
Honorable Mentions	Juliet Osuagwu	Nigeria
Honorable Mentions	Jumrah Ahmad	Indonesia
Honorable Mentions	Kamila Khalishah	Indonesia
Honorable Mentions	Kezia Murlie	Indonesia
Honorable Mentions	Khanh Bui	Vietnam
Honorable Mentions	MELISSA CHASARIRA	Zimbabwe
Honorable Mentions	Monita Priyadarshini	India
Honorable Mentions	Muskan garg	India
Honorable Mentions	Nur Al Farani Rosli	Malaysia
Honorable Mentions	Okoh Elijah	Nigeria
Honorable Mentions	Olive Wangui Kirigo	Kenya
Honorable Mentions	Paula Kwena	Kenya
Honorable Mentions	Ronit R	India
Honorable Mentions	Vivian Nabisere	Uganda

  

 

※This is a notice for the winners※
 

All winners will receive their certificate in an electronic format (pdf type) to reduce carbon footprint via email by November 13th. Should there be any changes in their names to be printed on the cerificate, please email Eco-generation at ecogeneration@samsung.com by November 11th. 
 
To UN Environment Prize, Samsung Engineering Prize and Eco-generation Prize winners, an email has already been sent. Please fill out the attached Consent Form and send it back to us by November 11th. If we do not receive your Consent Form by the given deadline (Nov 11th), the souvenir will NOT be delivered and only the e-certificates will be sent by email.
 
Eco-generation is not responsible for any delivery failure caused by absence of the recipient, wrong address and(or) phone number given by the recipients.
 
Taxes and duties may be imposed on the souvenirs when they are moved across a political boundary (although some free trade zones exist around the world). Although DHL Express offers the opportunity for the sender (Eco-generation team) to meet these costs at origin, some countries do not allow this type of service. In this case, the payment of Duties and Taxes are typically the responsibility of the receiver.

 

Please keep in mind, that due to the current situation with the COVID-19, the delivery of souvenirs may be subjected to delay. 
 
Thank you very much for your participation and see you next year!
 
 
 
With Regards,
 
Eco-generation Team