Bow Seat’s 2026 Ocean Awareness Contest, a UN Ocean Decade initiative, is open. This year’s theme ‘Your Story, Our Ocean: How Our Oceans Sustains, Protects, and Inspires Us,’ invites students ages 11-18 to explore their personal connection to the ocean through art, writing, film, music, poetry, dance, and multimedia. Whether you live by the coast or hundreds of miles inland, the ocean touches all our lives in ways both seen and unseen. Express how the ocean story sustains, protects, and inspires us. Deadline: June 8, 2026 #OceanAwarenessContest