Kindness City-School: International Contest
🏆 Exciting News: The Jury has selected the winners 🏆
We are thrilled to announce the completion of our international contest of children’s projects, celebrating creativity, kindness, and innovation. Our Youth-Adult jury has diligently reviewed all submissions, considering various criteria to select the most exceptional entries.
Contest Theme Interpretation: Kindness City-School and its Transformation into a Kindness City. The submissions were evaluated based on their interpretation of the contest theme, emphasizing the transformation of schools into mini-Kindness Cities.
Criteria for Judging:
Interpretation of the theme; Level of creativity; Originality and authenticity; Quality of artwork/ written text/video; Artistic/writing/technical skills demonstrated, considering the child’s age; Coherence of expression of the Kindness City-School; Realization of ideas into educational practice; Use of terms promoting kindness in teaching and learning; Emphasis on kindness, compassion, empathy, or sensitivity.
Discover the captivating stories, photos, and experiences shared by children-participants, their parents, teachers, and other educators from our international contest, highlighting the impact and joy it brought to their lives.
… I am writing to express my heartfelt appreciation for the outstanding organization of the recent project ‘Kindness City-School’ and to convey my utmost gratitude for providing a platform that allowed our students to showcase their talents and excel. I am delighted to share the wonderful news that our students participated in the competition with great enthusiasm and dedication, and they emerged as 2nd prize winners! This achievement is a testament to the efforts and commitment put forth by both the participants and your team. Our students were thrilled to be a part of this enriching experience, where they had the opportunity to compete alongside their peers from various schools. We look forward to future opportunities to participate in similar events that foster the growth and success of our students. (Leibaklotpi Chingakham, librarian, Global School, Abu Dabi, UAE)
A very unexpected win; thank you; it’s a great honor for us. We participated in this project simply because of the wonderful idea, and the project itself was a gift to us… I can’t wait to share the news with the whole school. (Audinga Buciene, teacher, Vievis Primary School, Lithuania).
Oh my gosh! I could have never expected this! Thank you so much! This means a lot to me. I am from a small village that isn’t well known so this just proves that no matter anything, you can still win and leave a mark in the world…(Kotryna T., 13 years old, Lithuania).
What a surprise!!! Thank you so much!!! We are so happy!!!!!! Thank you for your work!!! This is amazing! (Luisa Colapinto, educator, Parco della Lentezza, Italy).
… I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude for your warm congratulations and encouraging words for my daughter’s recent achievement in winning the 2nd prize… Your recognition means a lot to her and serves as further motivation to continue her efforts in spreading kindness and making a positive impact on the community… I also want to happily inform you that my daughter is fully excited about the prize money received and is willing to spend it on charity work and acts of kindness. Thank You. (Rajesh Murali, Abu Dhabi -U.A.E).
Our Kindness Champion-Schools Worldwide:
Lithuania: Alizawa Secondary School, Kupiškis district; Vievis Primary School; Povilas Matulionis School, Kupiškis district; Vilkaviškis Salomėja Nėris Basic School.
Italy: Parco della Lentezza; Ludoteca la Casa sull’albero; J.F Kennedy school, Turin; Santorre di Santarosa Levaldigi; Vercelli’s School.
Czech Republic: ZUŠ Allegro School.
Croatia: III. Osnovna Škola, Varaždin; School “August Cesarec”, Ivankovo.
Moldova: Liceul Teoretic „Andrei Vartic”, Ialoveni.
Nepal: Children’s Peace Home.
U.A.E.: Global School, Abu Dabi.
Cote d’Ivoire: Education and English For You, Abidjan.
Winners in the Following Categories:
Group Projects:
1st Prize – Kindness School, 2nd graders and their teacher Birutė Kairienė, Alizawa Primary School, Lithuania.
2nd Prize – Be kind and have fun. Board game. By a Little Citizens Group of 11 students, ages 8-11 years old, teacher Suzana Kućar, Croatia.
2nd Prize – Kindness City of Vievis Primary School, 67 students, ages 6-7, teachers and parents; teachers Audinga Buciene, Svetlana Kunauskiene, Ona Usciliene, Akvile Dambrauskiene, Lithuania.
2nd Prize – Kindness City by the 1st graders with Daiva Jukonė, Povilas Matulionis school, Kupiškis, Lithuania.
3rd Prize – Children’s Peace Home by a group of 16 students, educator Ms. Minakshi Yogi, Nepal.
3rd Prize – Words of Kindness by several teams of children from different Italian schools, 6-8 years old, organizer – Luisa Colapinto, Italy.
Family Projects:
2nd Prize – Annabel’s Kindness City-School by Annabel Hickling, 10 years old, and her father Rob Hickling, Canada.
3rd Prize – Being Kind is the Best Way to Build a Kindness School by Adrija Halder, 7 years old, and her family, HI, USA.
Video Projects:
2nd Prize – Kindness City-School by Shayna Gopaul, 11 years old, Trinidad and Tobago.
3rd Prize – Arini’s Kindness City by Arini Shankaralingam, 7 years old, HI, USA.
3rd Prize – Imagine a school as a town of kindness by Rusnė Karpavičiūtė, 13 years old, supervised by the teacher Vaida Kriščiūnienė, Vilkaviškis Salomėja Nėris Basic School, Lithuania.
Written Word:
Age Groups: 3-5; 6-11:
1st Prize – City-School of Kindness “We” by S., 8 years old, Russia.
3rd Prize – My Dream Kindness School by Berta Vaisnotaite, 11 years old, Vilkaviskis, Giedriai, Lithuania.
Age Group: 12-14:
1st Prize – A prospect of a future kindness school by Ugnė Puodžiūnaitė, 13 years old, Vilkaviškis Salomėja Nėris Basic School, Lithuania.
2nd Prize – My Magical Kind School by Kotryna Tumosaitė, Vilkaviškis Salomėja Nėris Basic School, Lithuania.
3rd Prize – Kindness Land by Cosmina Alupi, 14 years old, Republic of Moldova.
Age Group: 15-18:
2nd Prize – Kindness City-School by Nicoleta Ilica, 15 years old, Republic of Moldova.
3rd Prize – Kindness City-School by Sabina Dragomir, 15 years old, Republic of Moldova.
Arts and Crafts:
Age Groups: 3-5; 6-11:
3rd Prize – Kindness Matters by Lottie Robertson, Scotland, UK.
3rd Prize – The City of Kindness by Ilina Miškulin, 11 years old, Croatia.
Age Group: 12-14:
2nd Prize – Kindness Unites the World by Lakshmi Rajesh Nair, 13 years old, UAE.
Age Group: 15-18:
2nd Prize – Kindness School Allegro by Richard Novak, 15 years old, ZUŠ Allegro, Czech Republic.
3rd Prize – Embracing Kindness at School by Anastasia Cecoi, 18 years old, Vadul lui Vodă, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova.
Photography:
2nd Prize -My Kindness City by Eva Sokol, 12 years old, Croatia.
We ask participants: Imagine that overnight your school is transformed into a mini–Kindness City with its own mayor, City Hall, lanes, streets, avenues, squares, recreation places, information services, cafeterias, libraries, museums, residential neighborhoods, sports facilities, and the like. Such a “City” might also have its own tour guides and city maps. Please demonstrate verbally or visually what you will see, hear, taste, and smell, and how you will feel when entering and going to school in this Kindness City.
The overarching goal is to create and present a project of a mini-Kindness city-school with its own specific culture where daily acts of kindness are recognized and promoted as the only norm of behavior. Describe a city that provides all necessary conditions for students and adults to express their kindness in diverse age-, gender-, ethnicity-, and culture- appropriate and inclusive ways; a city that poses challenges and opportunities to become kinder and more compassionate to its entire “population.”
1st Prize $150.00
2nd Prize $100.00
3rd Prize $50.00
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Effective Date: December 1, 2023
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Thank you for your participation in the Kindness City-School: International Contest!
How to participate?
- Participants under the age of 18 must have parent permission to submit a project. The online registration form for children under the age of 18 must be completed and signed by a parent/guardian. The project and the submission should comply with the Privacy Policy Statement provided on this website.
- Each participant/team can submit only one project by filling out and submitting the registration form. Parents should make sure that their child's image/photo is not shown on the project.
- By submitting a project, entrants confirm that they have created it themselves and haven’t copied from any other source.
- All submissions should fall under the designated topic and be submitted before 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), December 31, 2023.
- Submitters can also provide any explanations (max. 300 words) accompanying their drawings, photos, or videos.
- All submissions should be done in English which is the working language of the project.