Grade 6-12 students – Enter the AccessAbility Flag Design Contest!
Runners up from last year's AccessAbility Flag Design Contest.
Easter Seals is inviting Grade 6 to 12 students in B.C. and the Yukon to design a flag for National AccessAbility Week (May 28 to June 3), an annual week to celebrate the valuable contributions of Canadians with disabilities and recognize efforts to actively remove barriers to accessibility and inclusion.
This year's theme is Making B.C./Yukon a Better Place to Live Through an AccessAble Society, asking students to design a flag that symbolizes what diversity means to them and what their province or territory looks like as an AccessAble society. The contest is designed to generate classroom discussions around inclusion, diversity, equity and access.
In addition to incorporating the theme, designs must:
- be original
- have no text or lettering elements
- be one-sided (the same image will be seen on both sides)
- be sized with a 2:1 aspect ratio
- be made of solid colours (any two-dimensional media such as markers, watercolours, acrylic, tempera, pastels, crayon, pencils, collage or computer graphics)
- be appropriate for a school setting
Note: Copyrighted materials (such as animation characters, school or commercial logos), photography and metallic or fluorescent colours are not allowed.
The contest offers two grand prize categories: Grades 6-8 and Grades 9-12. The first-place design in each category will go on a T-shirt to promote inclusion, diversity, equity and access during National Accessibility Week in 2024.
Each winner will receive $750 for their teacher to purchase learning materials, a $200 honorarium, a Panago pizza lunch for the student's classroom and two real flags based on their design.
Ten second place winners will also win pizza lunches for their classrooms, and 25 runner-ups will receive a coupon for a free personal size pizza.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, April 28. One entry is allowed per student. For more information on submission guidelines, visit the AccessAbility Flag Design Contest website.
