Rocket21 & Turner Endangered Species Fund Launch One-of-a-Kind “HOWL-OWEEN” Competition for Middle and High School Students and Teachers
Connecting S.T.E.M and Halloween
For Immediate Release
Contact: Mike Phillips, 406-556-8500
October 24, 2012
mike.phillips@retranches.com
(Bozeman, MT & San Francisco, CA.) – The Turner Endangered Species Fund
(supporting endangered species conservation efforts) and Rocket21™ (the new
social network where kids explore amazing possibilities for their lives and futures)
have joined forces to increase awareness of wildlife conservation and recovery, as
well as wildlife science careers, through a video competition themed HOWL-o-ween:
Dream Big in the Wild.
Now through November 4th, Rocket21 middle school and high school student
members have an opportunity to share videos featuring their most inspired,
passionate, creative, individual brand of wolf howl to compete for one of two
extraordinary family trips to Montana. Winning howlers will participate in a wolf
conservation and recovery activity dubbed a “howling party”, along with biologists
and researchers at Ted Turner’s Flying D Ranch outside Bozeman, Montana.
Winners will also tour Yellowstone National Park.
Teachers may separately enter their classes, to compete for one of two school-based
“Classroom Howling Parties”, featuring a team of wildlife experts from Turner
Endangered Species Fund in a visit to each of two winning classrooms.
“The challenges involved in wildlife conservation are complex, and require a
combination of genius, collaboration, and determination,” noted Mike Phillips,
Executive Director, Turner Endangered Species Fund. “We’re delighted to work with
Rocket21 in leveraging the popularity of Halloween as another opportunity to inspire
the next generation of our planet’s scientists and stewards.”
Hundreds of experts, called R21 PROs, from hundreds of fields have been invited to
interact with kids on Rocket21. They include explorers, artists, ecologists, business
executives, entertainers, scientists, engineers, nurses, doctors, educators, and more
– people who do many of the amazing things kids dream of doing.
“Rocket21 is about supporting all kids’ dreams, every single day. But we are also
scanning the globe 24/7 for once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to inspire our members’
imaginations and extend their passions, especially around themes related to Science,
Technology, Engineering & Math (S.T.E.M). Our Dream Big in the Wild promotion is
one of those opportunities. The winners will remember being with scientists in the
wilds of the Flying D Ranch fifty years from now,” said Rocket21 President and COO
Jodell Seagrave. “Our partnership with Turner Endangered Species Fund brings direct
access to world-class wildlife experts to all our youth members, and this promotion is
an exciting enhancement.”
Representatives from Turner Endangered Species Fund and Rocket21 will serve as
judges. Click here for more details. Deadline for entries is November 4th.
About Turner Endangered Species Fund
The Turner Endangered Species Fund is a non-profit, private operational charity
dedicated to preserving nature by ensuring the persistence of imperiled species and
their habitats with an emphasis on private land. The Fund was formed by Ted
Turner in June 1997.
For more information about Turner Endangered Species Fund, please contact Mike
Phillips at Mike.Phillips@retranches.com or visit the Fund’s website (www.tesf.org).
About Rocket21
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organizations while protecting them with a combination of state-of-the-art, realtime filtering and human moderation, extensive safety and security precautions, and
a specialized infrastructure designed to keep kids safe. Rocket21 is GPS for Your
Life.
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