Category Archives: Contests

01/21/13

Announcing the Winners of the 2012 Frogs Are Green Kids’ Art Contest

We’re excited to announce the winners of our third annual 2012 FROGS ARE GREEN art contest for kids. We received 236 entries from young artists from countries around the world. We are so grateful to the kids, parents, and teachers who sent in their creations. As always, we were thrilled to see so many original, fun, and thoughtful drawings and paintings of our favorite amphibian. It was extremely difficult to pick winners.

The artwork will continue to be on exhibit in the 2012 frogs are green kids’ art gallery on Flickr, and we encourage all participants to show off their amazing artwork to friends, family, and fellow students. All those who entered can download a certificate of participation (pdf download). First place, second place, and honorable mention winners, please contact us to receive your downloadable award certificate.

The winners are as follows:

Overall 2012 Frogs Are Green Kids’ Art Contest winner

“Joint Action for Frog Conservation,” Angel Barachiel S. Muñoz, 8 yrs old, Zamboanga City, Philippines

Overall Winner 2012 Frogs Are Green Kids' Art Contest - Angel Baracjiel S. Munoz

Ages 3-6
First place: Todor Gargov, 6 yrs old, The Little Prince Kindergarten, Varna, Bulgaria
1st Place Winner 3-6 yrs, Frogs Are Green 2012 Kids' Art Contest - Todor Gargov

Second place: “Joyful Life in a Clean Frog Pond” by Kennard Alvaro Hadinata, 4 ½ yrs old, Indonesia

2nd Place 2012 Frogs Are Green Kids' Art Contest - Kenard Alvaro Hadinata

Honorable Mention: Mehran Hasan Bhuiyan, 5 yrs old, Bangladesh

3rd Place 3-6 yrs 2012 Frogs Are Green Kids' Art Contest - Mehran Hasan Bhuiyan

Ages 7-9

First place: Viktoria Kovacheva, 9 yrs old, The Little Prince School, Varna, Bulgaria

1st Place 7-9 yrs - 2012 Frogs Are Green Kids' Art Contest - Viktoria Kovacheva

Second place: “Frog Rhapsody,” Tatyana Kokal, 9 yrs old, The Little Prince School, Varna, Bulgaria

2nd Place - 2012 Frogs Are Green Kis' Art Contest - Tatyana Kokal

Honorable mention: Essa Ahmed Ansari, 7 yrs old, Pristine Private School, Dubai, UAE

3rd Place 2012 Frogs Are Green Kids' Art Contest - Essa Ahmed Ansari

Ages 10-12
First place: “Sunny Day” by Laura Krišjāne, 10 years old, Riga 45 High School, Latvia

1st place 10-12 yrs 2012 Frogs Are Green Kids' Art Contest - Laura Krišjāne

Second place: “A World that’s Green in His Dream” by Andrew Wang, 12 yrs old, USA

2nd Place 10-12 yrs 2012 Frogs Are Green Kids' Art Contest - Andrew Wang

Honorable mention: “Today” by Estere Zariņa, 10 yrs old, Riga 45 High School, Latvia

3rd place 10-12 yrs 2012 Frogs are Green Kids' Art Contest - Estere Zariņa

Best 3D art
First place: “My Happy Frog” by Egils Ziedins, 11 yrs old, Children’s and Youth Centre, IK Auseklis, Riga, Latvia

Best 3d clay frog - 2012 Frogs Are Green Kids' art Contest - Egils Ziedins

Best Environmental “Green-Themed” Art

First place: “Environment change took away our frogs’ living area. Protect our Earth and save our frogs from falling!” by Aaron Wang, 11 yrs old, USA

1st place - best eco art - 2012 Frogs Are Green Kids' Art Contest - Aaron Wang

Second place: “Clean Earth, Happy Frog,” Alton Wang, 8 yrs old, USA

2nd place - best eco art - 2012 Frogs Are Green Kids' Art Contest - Alton Wang

01/21/13

Announcing the Winners of the 2012 Frogs Are Green Photography Contest

We are excited to announce the winners of the fourth annual 2012 FROGS ARE GREEN photo contest. We were thrilled to receive such fabulous entries, and it was difficult to pick the winners. We hope you will continue your adventures as amphibian photographers and enter next year’s photo contest!

We accepted photos in two categories: Frogs in the Wild and Backyard Frogs.


FROGS IN THE WILD

First place: Sherri Simms – “Spotted this frog and had to snap a photo, looked like he was smiling! It was taken at a pond in London, Ontario.”

Winner 2012 Frogs Are Green Photography Contest - Sherri Simms

Second place: Sara Viernum – Northern Red-legged Frog hanging out in the wetlands at Wapato Greenway in Portland, Oregon

2nd Place 2012 Frogs Are Green Photography Contest - Sara Viernum

Honorable mention: Aaron Wang, USA

3rd Place 2012 Frogs Are Green Photography Contest - Aaron Wang

BACKYARD FROGS

First place: Simply Bananas1 – “Surfin’ the green wave.”

Winner 2012 Frogs Are Green Backyard Frogs Photography Contest - Simply Bananas1

Second place: Brad Merrell – “A Frog’s Perspective”

2nd Place 2012 Frogs Are Green Backyard Frogs Photography Contest - Brad Merrell

Honorable mention: Eleanor Leonne Bennett – Cheshire UK

3rd Place 2012 Frogs Are Green Backyard Frogs Photography Contest - Eleanor Leonne Bennett

10/9/12

Calling All Frog Artists! A Reminder about the Frogs Are Green Kids' Art Contest 2012

Now that school is underway and the weather is getting colder (at least in this part of the world), it’s the perfect time to create some frog art. We hope you will consider submitting your frog art masterpieces to Frogs Are Green for our 2012 Kids’ Art Contest.

Here are the details:

Contest theme: IT’S EASY BEING GREEN!

Your artwork can be about frogs, how we can help them, or about ways we can be green at home, at school, or in the community. Your art can really be anything that inspires you about frogs or other amphibians. A winning piece from last year’s contest, for example, submitted by Ula Lekecinskaite, a 12-year-old girl from the Kaunus Art Gymnasium in Lithuania, celebrates frogs and rainy days:

We will award winners based on age in these age groups: 3-6, 7-9, and 10-12. The winners will receive a Frogs Are Green poster of their choice from our store and a winner’s certificate. All kids who enter the contest will receive a certificate of participation that can be downloaded from our site.

We’re looking for drawings, paintings, sculpture, collage, mixed media, or whatever format helps you express yourself.

Deadline for submissions is December 15, 2012; winners will be announced January 15, 2013. The winners will be featured in a post.

This year we have a new contest area using Flickr, where you can enter yourself. You must add a caption/ description with your Name, Age, and Country or your submission will not be included. Please see the contest page for more details.

We can’t wait to see your artwork!

And photographers—don’t forget that we are still accepting photographs of frogs and other amphibians for our 2012 photography contest. See the contest page.

07/3/12

Frogs Are Green 2012 Kids' Art Contest: Now Open for Submissions!

Artwork by Valeriy Karabchukova, 7 yrs old, Belgrade, Serbia.

Artwork by Valeriy Karabchukova, 7 yrs old, Belgrade, Serbia.

We are very excited to announce that the 3rd annual Frogs are Green Kid’s Art Contest is now open for submissions!

Contest theme: IT’S EASY BEING GREEN!

Your artwork can be about frogs and how we can help them, or it can also be about ways we can be green at home, at school, or in the community.

We will award winners based on age in these age groups: 3-6, 7-9, 10-12. The winners will receive a Frogs Are Green poster of their choice from our store. All kids who enter the contest will receive a certificate of participation that can be downloaded from our site.

We’re looking for drawings, paintings, sculpture, collage, mixed media, or whatever format helps you express yourself.

Deadline for submissions is November 30, 2012, and the winners will be announced January 15, 2013. The winners will be featured in a post.

This year we have a new contest area using Flickr, where you can enter yourself. You must add a caption/ description with your Name, Age, and Country or your submission will not be added. Please see the contest page for more details.

Teachers: Please print out the attached flyer to post in your school.

We can’t wait to see your artwork!

07/3/12

Frogs Are Green 2012 Photo Contest: Now Open for Submissions!

One of the winning photos from the 2011 contest. Photograph by Krista Herbstrith, Northfield, MN.

The 4th annual Frogs Are Green photo contest is now open for submissions. We hope you take your camera with you while you’re on vacation and get some great photos of frogs or other amphibians! Or you might take some great photos in your own backyard.

As in the past, we will be accepting submissions in two categories: Frogs in the Wild and Backyard Frogs.

Backyard Frog photos would include such photos as a frog perched on your picnic table or other unusual place. One year, for example, we received a photo of a frog sitting on a pool hose.

Frogs in the Wild photos, on the other hand, should feature frogs, toads, or other amphibians in their natural habitat: frog ponds, marshes, in the woods, and so on.

PLEASE—no photo manipulation and no photos of pet frogs. Please do not move the frog to get a better photo.

Photos of amphibians of all kinds, including salamanders, will be accepted.

This year we have a new contest area using Flickr, where you can enter yourself. You must add a caption/ description with your Name, Title and Location or your submission will not be added. For more information, please visit the contest page.There are three different group pools, two for photography so be sure to enter your photo into the right group pool.

Frogs Are Green Backyard Frogs 2012 Photo Contest

Frogs Are Green Frogs in the Wild 2012 Photo Contest

All entries must be received by November 30, 2012. Winners will be announced January 15, 2012.

The winner will receive a Frogs Are Green poster or t-shirt of his/her choice from our store.

We look forward to seeing your photos!

01/5/12

Announcing the Winners of the 2011 Frogs Are Green Photography Contest

We are excited to announce the winners of the second annual 2011 FROGS ARE GREEN photo contest. We were thrilled to receive such fabulous entries, and it was difficult to pick winners. We hope you will continue your adventures as amphibian photographers and enter next year’s photo contest!

We accepted photos in two categories: Frogs in the Wild and Backyard Frogs.

FROGS IN THE WILD

Winner

Photograph by Sara Viernum, Barking Treefrog holding onto to a reed in a vernal pond in the Talladega National Forest in Northeastern, Alabama.

Photograph by Sara Viernum, Barking Treefrog holding onto to a reed in a vernal pond in the Talladega National Forest in Northeastern, Alabama.

Honorable mentions:
"Froggy Condo" taken at Jenna Wild Life Preserve Swamps in Dixi County, Florida, by Tina Calderin.

"Froggy Condo" taken at Jenna Wild Life Preserve Swamps in Dixi County, Florida, by Tina Calderin

Tree frog in Lily, photographed by Brian Blom, Deerwood, MN.

Tree frog in Lily, photographed by Brian Blom, Deerwood, MN.

BACKYARD FROGS
Winner:
Photograph by Krista Herbstrith who says, "I was showing my son the frog on the flowers from the garden, when the frog leaped and landed on my son's face," Northfield, MN.

Photograph by Krista Herbstrith who says, "I was showing my son the frog on the flowers from the garden, when the frog leaped and landed on my son's face," Northfield, MN.

Honorable mention:
Photograph by Sara Viernum - Barking Treefrog is hunting for insects under the front porch light on a house in Oxford, Alabama.

Photograph by Sara Viernum - Barking Treefrog is hunting for insects under the front porch light on a house in Oxford, Alabama.

SPECIAL MENTION
This photo by Jan Knizek wasn’t easily categorized, but we wanted to give it  special mention because it poignantly tells the story of  how European Green Toads and other amphibians are losing their habitats through over development. This is one of a very few breeding sites of the toads in Prague, Czech Republic, and is currently endangered by a development project.
Photograph by Jan Knizak, Photo taken at the last known breeding site in Prague, Czech Republic, currently endangered by a development project.

Photograph taken by Jan Knizek taken at one of a very few breeding sites in Prague, Czech Republic, currently endangered by a development project.