Kids Ocean Day

Whale-Tail-LogoKids Ocean Day is an annual celebration and call to action for the protection of the world’s oceans. The event’s goal is to allow students to interact with the environment in order to truly learn the importance of preserving it. Sponsored by the California Coastal Commission, Kids Ocean Day events are hosted throughout the state by different organizations. It includes a series of assemblies, a beach clean-up, and aerial art display. Orange County Coastkeeper has been the local Kids Ocean Day coordinator since 2008.

Kids Ocean Day 2013: June 4th @ Huntington State Beach!

It’s hard to believe that Coastkeeper is preparing to host our 6th annual Kids Ocean Day.  After a successful event in 2012, we are expanding our efforts this year to reach 1,000 local students!  On Tuesday, June 4, 18 busloads of kids will descend on Huntington State Beach to clean the beach and send a global message. By hosting the event right at the mouth of the Santa Ana River, we’re offering our students the opportunity to see exactly where pollution from inland OC reaches the beach, and make a big difference in an area with a LOT of trash! With an event of this scale, Coastkeeper needs help from the community to make it a success. See how you can be a part of Kids Ocean Day 2013:

  • Volunteer- In order to bring 1,000 students to our event, we need a large team of energetic volunteers to facilitate each school’s experience.  Please see the volunteer flyer for more information, and send your completed Volunteer Form to briana@coastkeeper.org by May 30.
  • Sponsorship: Send a school to Kids Ocean Day- Our current funding from California’s Whale Tail License Plate Program provides one bus per school.  However, most underserved schools lack the resources to afford a second bus to accommodate all interested students. We seek additional support from the  community to send more underserved students to Ocean Day.  Please check out the sponsor flyer to learn more, and submit a completed Sponsor Form to Briana.  Feel free to call Briana at 714-850-1965 with any questions.

 

Kids Ocean Day 2012: “Defend the Sea!”

950 students, teachers and volunteers!

Kids Ocean Day 2012 has already come and gone! It was a gorgeous day at the beach, and conditions were perfect for this annual event. We returned to  Bolsa Chica State Beach this year and we are very thankful to the amazing State Park staff and officers for their assistance. It was wonderful to see nearly 800 students take part in this hands-on experience to learn what sort of trash ends up on the beach.  The students got to take control, clean the beach, and afterwards, take a stand to “Defend the Sea”. This will hopefully lead each of them  to take actions that can prevent trash from getting to the ocean in the first place.

This event would not have been possible without donations of time, supplies and funds from our supporters.  A gigantic THANK YOU to:

 

Volunteers:

  • Sam’s Club: Corona, Fountain Valley, Fullerton, La Habra, Stanton
  • ADP
  • Coastkeeper interns, past and present
  • Volunteer veterans and newcomers
  • The Aerial Art team, lead by Michael Mori and Vivian Dao
 Sponsors:

  • CA Coastal Commission
  • Hurley and Morning Sun Shirt Co. for donating 1,000 awesome t-shirts!
  • Chipotle and Lomeli’s for the volunteer’s lunches
  • Trader Joes- 17th St, Costa Mesa
  • Mother’s Market- 19th St, Costa Mesa
  • Starbucks- Bolsa Chica & Heil, Huntington Beach
  • Rubios

 

Kids Ocean Day 2011: “Clean seas, please!”

875 kids, 180 adults = one cute flat fish!

Over 875 kids, over 100 volunteers, and dozens of teachers and chaperones took over Huntington State Beach for a cleanup and aerial art event. Fifteen busloads of students blanketed the beach between Magnolia and Beach Blvd, picking up thousands of pieces of plastic and styrafoam, food wrappers and cigarette butts.  Then our mighty group of over 1,ooo kids and adults joined together to create a flat fish asking us for “Clean Seas Please!”

This event would not have been possible without donations of time, supplies and funds of many generous people.  A gigantic THANK YOU to:

Volunteers:

  • Sam’s Club
  • ADP
  • Orange Coast College Circle K Club
  • Various people from CSUF, Saddleback College, and veteran Coastkeeper volunteers and interns
  • The aerial art team, headed up by the fabulous Anni Nguyen

Sponsors:

  • California Coastal Commission
  • Hurley and Morning Sun Shirt Company: 1,000 T-shirts!
  • Orange County Community Foundation
  • Mother’s Market
  • Chipotle- lunch for volunteers!
  • Surfside Sports
  • Sprouts, Fresh and Easy, Von’s

 

Kids Ocean Day 2010

In 2010, we moved our event to Huntington State Beach, and it was a hit! Over 750 Students helped clean the beach, and came together to create an aerial art image with a message to “Sustain Life.”

Thanks to our Volunteers: This year, Coastkeeper was lucky to have over 80 volunteers helping make Ocean Day a success. From creating the aerial art and setting up equipment to leading school groups and bringing us Chipotle, we couldn’t have done it without you! A special thanks to our spectacular aerial art team, and local Sam’s Club stores.
Thanks to our Sponsors: Sam’s Club; Starbucks- Newhope St, Fountain Valley; Trader Joe’s- Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach; Chipotle- Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley.
It’s hard to believe that’s it’s been almost a year since our last Ocean Day event, but it’s just around the corner. This year we’ll be bringing over 750 elementary students from across the county to Huntington State Beach. Students will help clean the beach, and come together to create an aerial art image with a message to “Sustain Life.”

 

Ocean Day 2009

Thanks to all who helped us bring over 700 elementary school students to Bolsa Chica State Beach for the 15th Annual Kids’ Adopt-A-Beach Cleanup on June 4th, 2009! Our students, teachers and over 70 volunteers created an amazing aerial art design and left Bolsa Chica a lot cleaner.

We couldn’t have done this event without the help of Save Our Beach and Sam’s Club, who helped us recruit volunteers and provided important supplies. Also, thanks to a special donation from Lexus, we were able to send each participant home with a Kids Ocean Day canvas tote, to bring home the message of reducing plastic use.

 

Ocean Day 2008

For our first year as Ocean Day coordinator, 500 students from 6 local schools participated in the beach cleanup and aerial art activities. Through this incredible program, we learned the impact that students can have in their community when you help them make a connection with their environment and show them ways they can make a difference. Click the links below to learn more:

 

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