Sustainability advocacy Challenge (Sac)
For Students
With its ‘By Youths, For All’ student-centric approach, SAC builds student voice and agency through student-led sustainability-oriented initiatives that encourage students to be creators, contributors and connectors.
Objectives of SAC
Environmental Education
Educate youth regarding environmental sustainability and conservation issues.
Environmental Stewardship
Nurture youth to be eco-stewards who are inspired to take action in promoting a culture of sustainable living and actively practise green citizenry that contributes to a sustainable Singapore
2 available TRACKS
Schools can choose to sign up for both or either module
Open to primary, secondary and post-secondary institutions
Primary Schools category and Secondary/Post-Secondary category
Advocacy Module
Participating schools can nominate a team of 3 to 5 students from Primary 4 upwards to collaborate and take on actions as Green Champions.
Participating teams will design and execute planned outreach activities that pilot sustainability initiatives and champion sustainability efforts in schools.
Students participating teams are strongly encouraged to be creators, connectors and contributors to design and implement their own community outreach activities.
There are 3 phases in SAC:
Phase One: Learn
All members of participating teams are strongly encouraged to sign up for and to attend the SAC Symposium on 11 March 2024.
Complementary training provided to the Symposium participants to equip them with requisite knowledge and skills to design their community outreach project or sustainability initiative.
Phase Two: Create
Teams will then collaborate to design their own authentic, interesting and engaging activities/initiatives to promote sustainable living and in doing so, they are able to reach out to as many members of the community (school / neighbourhood etc.)
Teams are strongly encouraged to attend an online Presentation-cum-Consultation session (optional) at a later date to showcase their advocacy plans to an expert panel for feedback.
Phase Three: Advocate
Teams will then execute their advocacy plans/ sustainability initiatives anytime from during the Term 1 Break (12 March 2024) to end of Term 3 break (8 September 2024).
Teams will need to submit a Final Report via FormSG that captures key details of their Advocacy plans /sustainability initiatives (planning stage to implementation stage, reflections etc) on 9 September 2024 (Term 4 Week 1).
For teams that successfully participated in the Advocacy Module, their achievements will be recognised during the SAC Award Ceremony (early November 2024).
Three categories of awards (Gold, Silver and Bronze) will be presented at the end of SAC to recognise the teams’ achievements.
Participation in the SAC may also be considered as part of the school’s contribution to efforts in environmental conservation when applying for the School Green Awards.
Examples of community outreach activities
Conducting assembly talks to the school community on environmental sustainability.
Conducting workshops to teach preschool children, senior citizens and/or nursing home residents how to adopt environmentally sustainable practices as a Value-in-Action endeavour.
Collaborating with environmental organisations or agencies to support green initiatives (fundraising/awareness).
Co-organising talks with Community Centres to raise environmental awareness on sustainability among the residents in the neighbourhood.
Advocacy Module Timeline
Enrichment Module
One-hour lesson package hosted on SLS
Multi-modal - sustainability-related content, videos and learning activities.
Made available to registered schools on 22 March 2024.
Schools may use the lesson package anytime to engage students before 1 November 2024.
Participating schools are to submit a Padlet link and photo evidence via FormSG by 1 Novembere 2024.
All participants to receive an e-Certificate through their schools upon verification of submitted evidence from 8 November 2024 onwards.
