UNPLASTIFY CHALLENGE FOR SCHOOLS
Be part of a new unplastifying adventure!
What is it?
An international educational program designed to empower 15 and 16 year-olds to actively engage in the global issue of plastic.
Who is it aimed at?
This Challenge invites 15 and 16-year-olds to devise, design, and implement a strategy to eradicate disposable plastic from their community.
What do they do?
In teams of 4 members, and guided by their mentors, young people go through project management stages to bring their ideas into action. They develop their projects implementing real solutions to reduce single-use plastic consumption.
How do they do it?
The Challenge is designed in a competition format. Young people participate in webinars and workshops, complete tasks, and share progress with the rest of the teams through our Unplastify Web App. Throughout the program, they receive scores and feedback, so at the end, the finalist teams with the highest scores present their projects to a panel of experts at a closing event.
PROJECT BASED LEARNING
We believe that this is the key to develop a deep understanding of these issues: learning by doing. This way, we seek to make young people should be the main characters of their learning.
Our Pillars
CHANGEMAKERS SKILLS
By working on a real, global issue, we seek to empower changemakers as part of the real world solution out in the real world. We focus on leadership, communication, impact and cooperation as indispensable skills for the participants that are today's leaders.
AGILE AND DESIGN THINKING
This program is inspired by the agile method and design thinking, where the teams converge and diverge in order to sharpen their strategy. Creativity and teamwork are the key.
Shortly, we will be launching the 10th edition of the Unplastify Challenge for Schools. For more information, you can reach us at education@unplastify.com or through our social media channels: @unplastify.eD
We'd like to share with you some of the projects from the previous editions
Find out more about the experiences of mentors who have accompanied us in past editions.
"The Unplastify Challenge is the best thing that could have happened to my students. It's not just a project; it's more of a transformative journey that helps young people not only break free from plastic but also turn them into true revolutionaries, capable of creating a sustainable future. Through action and participation, young global citizens become more aware of environmental issues and strive to find practical solutions. The challenge shapes future leaders who can make a greener and cleaner world a reality."
Iryna Kharchenko / Taras Shevchenko Lyceum / Ukraine
"My students used to think that plastic was harmless and could easily biodegrade, but after getting involved in the Challenge, many of them understood the extent to which plastics endanger both the environment and their overall health. The Challenge for Schools raised awareness about the effects of plastic on the environment and promoted the use of non-plastic items. Now they are good ambassadors for Unplastify, convincing others to stop using plastic items at school."
Ronald Felix / Nkuu Secondary School / Tanzania
“The Unplastify Challenge for Schools was a surprise for me on so many levels. Initially, there was a bit of fear as I watched the deadlines approach while the work was still in progress. However, they managed it, and they've been handling everything with much more responsibility than I expected. Now, when I see a new task, I am at peace because I know they can handle it. Suddenly, they embraced the project in a way that made me take a step back to let them lead. I've been witnessing their personal growth each time a challenge arises, and this is something I couldn't have realized without Unplastify. I thank you all for the opportunity to be part of this”
Rodrigo Avellino / Escuela Novo Espacio / Brazil
IMPACT
7
EDITIONS
+120
SCHOOLS
+1400
YOUNG PEOPLE PARTICIPATED
10
COUNTRIES
INSTITUTIONS THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE CHALLENGE FOR SCHOOLS
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Albert schweitzer
Ara San Juan
BACHILLERATO PROVINCIAL N°17 "GENERAL MANUEL BELGRANO”
Bede´s Grammar School
Centro Educativo para la Producción Total N29 de Robert Payró (RURAL)
Centro Polivalente de Artes Ushuaia
Colegio 1 de 3 Bernardino Rivadavia
Colegio Argentino Arabe
Colegio Cruz Del Sur
Colegio Divina Pastora
Colegio Evangélico Buenos Aires
Colegio Fray José Genesio Baldán
COLEGIO ITALO ARGENTINO BILINGÜE BICULTURAL "DANTE ALIGHIERI" N° 8204
Colegio Lucero Norte
Colegio Manuel Belgrano
Colegio Misericordia
Colegio Modelo Palpalá
Colegio Nuestra Tierra
Colegio Río de la Plata
Colegio San Lucas Nordelta
Colegio San Marón A-26
Colegio San Martin de Tours (Mujeres)
Colegio San Pablo
Colegio Santa Ana
Colegio Santa Fe
Colegio Secundario Dr. RENÉ FAVALORO
Colegio Secundario Juan Domingo Perón N5054
Colegio Todos los Santos
Colegio Wolfsohn
COMPAÑÍA DE MARÍA
E. C. N.º 11 D.E. 17 "Dr. José Peralta”
E.E.S.T.N°4 " Ing Emilio Mitre" (Gral S. Martin)
E.S.R.N. N°30
EEM 6 DE 19
EES 15
EES N 2
EEST Nº 2
EETP 456
EME CI Alito D.3706- ARG
ENS N°3 Bernardino Rivadavia
Esc Nro 3 Atilio Santos Pascual Schiavoni
Escuela 344
Escuela Agrotecnica Prof.Miguel Angel Torres
Escuela de Comercio N°2 DE 1 Dr. Antonio Bermejo
Escuela de Comercio Sixto Salinas de Rivera
Escuela Escocesa San Andrés
Escuela Los Alamos
Escuela N 10 Claromecó
Escuela N° 8183
Escuela Ntra Sra de Fatima
Escuela Provincial de Comercio 1"Prof. C.E.Ibarra”
Escuela Secundaria Capitan de Fragata Carlos Maria Moyano
Escuela Secundaria Rural de Escaba de Arriba - Mediada por TIC - Sede Anexa
Escuela Tecnica 36
Escuela tecnica construcciones portuarias
ESCUELA TÉCNICA N.7 D.E.5 "Dolores Lavalle de Lavalle”
Escuela Técnica N°34 DE 9° "Ingeniero Enrique Martín Hermitte”
Escuela Técnica NRO 2 Dr Horacio Guzmán
ESEA Manuel Belgrano
ET 37 DE 11
Farmingdale College
Florida day school
Francesco Faá di Bruno
Fundacion Educativa Woodville
Gartenstadt Schule
Hicken
Instituto 25 de mayo
Instituto Barrio Marina
Instituto Evangélico Americano
Instituto Industrial Luis A. Huergo
Instituto Juan Gutenberg
Instituto María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa
Instituto Monseñor José Weimann
Instituto Nuestra Señora de los Remedios
Instituto Nuestra Señora María Bistrica
Instituto Salesiano Pio XI
Instituto San Román
Instituto Santa Maria de Nazareth
Instituto Stella Maris
Instituto Victoria Ocampo
IPEM 268 DEAN FUNES
Ipem 35
Liceo 10 DE 6 Ricardo Rojas
Luis Augusto Ingeniero Huergo
Mariano Moreno
NEA Nueva Escuela Argentina
Noordwijk Montessori
Noriega 1047
Normal Tomás Godoy Cruz
Oakhill Pilar
ORT
Pilgrims College
Redemptrix Captivorum
San Lucas
SANTA FE
Santa Rosa de Lima
Schiller Schule
Secundaria Rural Mediada por TIC anexo Taco Rodeo
Secundaria Rural Mediada por TIC Sede Anexo Los Gramajo
Southern Cross School
St George’s College
St Mary of the Hills
St. Catherine's Moorlands School- Sede Belgrano
St. Catherine's Moorlands School- Sede Tortuguitas
EES N° 9 Rodolfo Walsh
The Global School
Instituto Santa Rosa de Lima
IES J. B Justo
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Colegio Agape Dom
Colegio Degraus
Colegio Morumbi Sul
Colegio Santo Agostinho
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Colegio El Bosque
Colegio Esmeralda
Colegio Quellón
Colegio San Alberto
Liceo Bicentenario Padre Nicolás
The Greenland School
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Centro Educacional Conquistadores
Colegio Alfonso López Pumarejo
Colegio Campestre La Colina
Colegio Comfenalco Quindío
Colegio Cristiano Amor De Cristo
COLEGIO CRISTIANO LA ESPERANZA
Colegio Hontanares
Colegio Montessori
Colegio Montessori Medellin
Colegio Pinares
Colegio San Ignacio IED
Colegio Técnico Menorah
Corporación Educativa San José de Las Vegas "Eduvegas”
Institución Educativa Confamiliar de La Guajira No.1
Institucion Educativa Distrital Jose Eusebio Caro
Institución Educativa La Adiela
INSTITUCIÓN EDUCATIVA LAURA VICUÑA
Institución Educativa Paulo VI
Institución Educativa Politécnico la Milagrosa
The Columbus School
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Colegio Humanístico Costarricense Campus Coto
Colegio Humanístico Costarricense Campus Sarapiqui
Colegio Humanístico Costarricense Nicoya
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AEU School
ÁLVAREZ SÁNCHEZ COLOMBIA
Anan
APCH
AUDICIÓN Y LENGUAJE
CENTRO DE EDUCACION INICIAL JUAN ROMERO EGUIGUREN
Colegio Alberto Einstein
Colegio Aleman Quito
Colegio Americano de Guayaquil
Colegio Becquerel
Colegio de Bachillerato "Juan Montalvo”
COLEGIO DE BACHILLERATO "SOBERANIA NACIONAL”
Colegio de Bachillerato Particular Antonio Peña Celi
Colegio de Liga
Colegio Fiscal Eduardo Salazar Gómez
Colegio Francés de Quito
Colegio Menor Quito
Colegio Terranova
Colegio Tomas Moro
DR. RAÚL CLEMENTE HUERTA RENDÓN
Escuela de Educación Básica DR. BERNARDO RIOFRIO
Escuela Juan Bautista Palacios La Salle
Escuela Particular Guido Garay Vargas Machuca
INÉS MARÍA BALDA
Jacinto Santos Verduga
JUAN ISAAC LOVATO
Julio Moreno Espinoza
Liceo Internacional
RIO MARAÑON
Thomas Rusell Crampton
UE "Bernardita Correa Delgado”
UE "Dayuma Kento”
UE "Eloy Alfaro”
UE "Hernán Malo González “
UE "VÍCTOR MANUEL GUZMÁN”
UE 17 de Julio
UE 19 DE NOVIEMBRE
UE ALMIRANTE NELSON
UE CÉSAR INTRIAGO PEÑAFIEL
UE CIUDAD DE GIRON
UE COMUNITARIA INTERCULTURAL BILINGUE CARCHI
UE COMUNITARIA INTERCULTURAL BILINGÜE SUSCAL
UE Cristiana Nazareno
UE DEL MILENIO ALFONSO HERRERA
UE Ecológica Trilingüe Gonzalo Ruales Benalcazar
UE Eduardo Kingman
UE EL TRIUNFO
UE ENRIQUE LOPEZ LASCANO
UE ESPECIALIZADA GÉNESIS
UE FERNANDO DAQUILEMA
UE FIB JAIME ROLDOS AGUIILERA
UE FISCAL SANTIAGO DE GUAYAQUIL
UE FISCAL URUGUAY
UE FISCOMISIONAL PADRE JULIO MARIA MATOVELLE
UE Gabriel Iriarte Rios
UE INTERCULTURAL BILINGUE CHMBORAZO
UE Jacques Philippe Binet
UE JULIO ESTRADA ICAZA
UE LAGO SAN PEDRO
UE LEOPOLDO MERCADO
UE MADRE DE LA DIVINA GRACIA
UE Manuela de Santa Cruz y Espejo
UE MANUELA SÁENZ DE AIZPURU D7
UE Membrillo
UE MQH
UE PARTICULAR "MISIONEROS OBLATOS”
UE PARTICULAR ADUANA
UE Particular Despertar
UE PICHINCHA
UE RIO MARAÑON
UE Roberto Arregui Moscoso
UE San Francisco de Asís
UE San Francisco del Alvernia
UE SAN JOSE DE RARANGA
UE San Lorenzo
UE Tenguel
UE TUFIÑO
UK School
Unidad Educativa "PASOS”
Unidad Educativa 25 de marzo
UNIDAD EDUCATIVA COMUNITARIA INTERCULTURAL BILINGUE "CARCHI”
Unidad Educativa EL CARMELO
Unidad Educativa Fiscal “Pablo Hannibal Vela”
Unidad Educativa Fiscomiscional "Pablo Muñoz Vega”
Unidad Educativa Lauro Damerval Ayora
Unidad Educativa Leon Copper
UE Fiscal Nueve de Octubre
NM School
UE VICTOR MANUEL PEÑA HERRERA
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Ceip Ponte dos Brozos
Instituto Thos y Codina
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Colegio Suizo Americano
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Centro de Estudios Tecnológicos del mar 08 Mazatlán
CETIS 142
CETIS 86
Liceo del Valle de Toluca
Sociedad en acción de Sinaloa
SUCEDE
UNAM
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ALFREDO BONIFAZ
Colegio de Ciencias
Colegio de la Inmaculada Jesuitas
Colegio Villa Per Se
El Pacífico
La Casa de Cartón
San isidro
Santísima Niña María
Villa Alarife
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Insavi
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Liceo de San Antonio Canelones
St. Clare’s College
PARTNERS
Project supported by Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic Fund
These are the organizations that contribute to expanding the program:
