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12th Annual
Children’s Water Education Festival
Applications for: Volunteer Presenter Sponsor Donor

Date: Tuesday, April 15 and Wednesday, April 16, 2008.
Who: Orange County third, fourth and fifth graders.
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Place: Hidden Valley Park, 8800 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine.

TEACHERS! To attend the 2008 Festival, please click here* to download an application. First come, first served. Space is limited. NOTE: As of December 7, the 2008 Festival is completely booked. Any registrations received after that date will be placed on a waiting list. We will contact teachers to let you know your status.

For more information, please contact Gina DePinto at (714) 378-3228.

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Be a Volunteer!

We need your help! Whatever your skills are or your expertise we need you! Volunteer at the festival or be a part of the team that makes this wonderful event happen. Give us your time and we will give you an experience you will not forget.

For more information on how to volunteer, please contact Gina DePinto at (714) 378-3228 or e-mail gdepinto@ocwd.com.

Volunteer Registration Form
(77.58K PDF file)

Be a Presenter!

Do you like working with children? Do you want to help them learn about our environment and our natural resources? Then, being a presenter is for you. What could be more rewarding then helping children understand the world in which we live and inspiring them to protect its resources!

The Orange County Water District Ground Water Guardian Team and Disneyland Resort will coordinate the festival, but we need your help to ensure its success. Through hands-on fun-filled activities students will learn about the world in which we live and what they can do in their homes, communities and schools to protect our natural resources and our world.

For more information on presenting at the festival, please contact Gina DePinto at (714) 378-3228 or e-mail gdepinto@ocwd.com.

Presenter Registration Form
(76.3K PDF file)

Be a Sponsor!

When given the opportunity, children often demonstrate an innate desire to protect the world and its natural resources. But we must provide the catalysts to turn their enthusiasm into action. By offering information, resources and assurances that children can make a difference, we can start them on a lifelong path of environmental stewardship. This is the philosophy of the 2008 Children’s Water Education Festival, an exciting concept in environmental education that is spreading nationally and internationally.

Sponsor Contribution Form
(76.04K PDF file)

On April 15 and 16, 2008, more than 6,000 students, teachers, parents, presenters and volunteers will participate in the 2008 Festival. The Festival will feature interactive displays and activities on the water cycle, groundwater and surface water protection, wetlands preservation, recycling, pollution prevention and water treatment, distribution and conservation and local environmental issues. It will also focus on local reuse water issues and recommend ways students can protect and preserve our water and environmental resources.

The event is more than an opportunity to educate students about protecting and preserving our groundwater and drinking water resources. We can sow the seeds of knowledge that will help empower our youth to make a difference. Ultimately, they can ensure safe drinking water for generations to come.

Public and private financial support is crucial to the success of this educational event and its continued growth. By sponsoring this year’s festival, you can help ensure its continued success in educating our children. As a sponsor, your organization will receive prominent recognition for your contribution. An investment made today to protect this vital resource is an investment in the region’s environmental and economic future.

To help, please feel free to contact Gina DePinto at (714) 378-3228 or e-mail gdepinto@ocwd.com.

Sponsorship Highlights

Sponsoring the award winning 2008 Children’s Water Education Festival will give your organization an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to our children, to the environment and to the community. The 2008 Festival promises to be an unforgettable event as well as the largest festival in the nation. As a sponsor, there are several ways you will receive recognition:

Bag Stuffers

If you have promotional items (imprinted pencils, magnets, coupons, flyers etc.) that you would like to distribute to the thousands of participants, you will want to be Sparkling Ocean, Shimmering Sea Crystalline Lake or Radiant River Sponsor.

School Sponsorship

Organizations such as yours make it possible for schools with little to no transportation funding to attend field trips like this. You can request that your sponsorship contribution be used to fund a specific district or school. We will be happy to let them know that your contribution provided their transportation.

Sponsorship Packages:

Sparkling Ocean Sponsor--$10,000

News release sent to local media with your organization’s name and gift amount.
Sponsor name in promotional flyers.
Sponsor name and logo featured on the Festival entrance sign.
Sponsor name and logo featured in the official Festival program.
Sponsor name featured in Festival school information.
Sponsor name and logo on the official Festival T-shirt.
Opportunity to include your organization’s promotional items (imprinted pencils or pens, magnets, flyers, coupons etc.) in participants’ packets.
One ad in the official Festival program insert for an environmental or education message - no larger than 4” x 3”.
Space, if desired, for presenting an interactive water related activity at the Festival.
Four passes to the Festival VIP Expedition luncheon.

Shimmering Sea Sponsor---$5,000

Sponsor name netioned in a news release.
Sponsor name and logo on the official Festival T-shirt.
Sponsor name in promotional flyers.
Sponsor name and logo featured on the Festival entrance sign.
Sponsor name and logo featured in the official Festival program.
Opportunity to include your organization's promotional items (imprinted pencils or pens, magnets, flyers, coupons etc.) in participants’ packets.
One ad in the official Festival program insert for an environmental or education message - no larger than 3” x 2”.
Space, if desired, for presenting an interactive water-related activity at the Festival.
Three passes to the Festival VIP Expedition luncheon.

Crystalline Lake Sponsor--$2,500

Sponsor name and logo featured on the Festival entrance sign.
Sponsor name and logo featured in the official Festival program.
Sponsor name and logo on the official Festival T-shirt.
Opportunity to include your organization's promotional items (imprinted pencils or pens, magnets, flyers, coupons etc.) in participants’ packets.
One ad in the Festival program insert for an environmental or education message.
Space, if desired, presenting an interactive water-related activity at the Festival.
One ad in the official Festival program insert for an environmental or education message - no larger than 2” x 1.5”.
Two passes to the Festival VIP Expedition luncheon.

Radiant River Sponsor--$1,000

Sponsor name and logo featured in the Festival program.
Sponsor name and logo on the official Festival T-shirt.
Opportunity to include your organization's promotional items (imprinted pencils or pens, magnets, flyers, coupons etc.) in participants’ packets.
One ad in the Festival program insert for an environmental or educational message - no larger than 2” x 1.5”.
Space, if desired, for presenting an interactive drinking water-related activity at the Festival.
One pass to the Festival VIP Expedition luncheon.

Brilliant Falls Sponsor--$500

Sponsor name and logo featured in the official Festival program.
One ad in the Festival program insert for an environmental or educational message - no larger than 1.5” x 1.5”.
Space, if desired, for presenting an interactive water-related activity at the Festival.
One pass to the Festival VIP Expedition luncheon.

To help, please feel free to contact Becky Mudd at (714) 378-3362 or e-mail bmudd@ocwd.com.

Be a Donor!

There are many ways to help the Children’s Water Education Festival. Donating in-kind gifts and financial donations ensure that Orange County Children will have the opportunity to learn about our environment and the important role that they can take to ensure that our drinking water is safe for their families, communities and future generations.

The Festival is more than a fieldtrip; it is an outdoor laboratory where students use their minds and creativity to learn about water and the environment around them. All activities at the Festival are fun and geared toward school-age children in third and fourth grade. Activities include creating edible aquifers out of lemon lime soda and ice cream and the bucket brigade where students participate in a relay race where they learn about daily water usage and ways that they can use less water by making simple changes in their daily lives. Through creative and fun activities students learn about our environment and the relationship between all living creatures and what they can do to preserve one of our most precious resources—water.

If you would like to make a donation or have questions, please contact Gina DePinto at (714) 378-3228.

List of Needed Items Form
(30.8K PDF)

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