Dear Friends,

This month, our newsletter features resources, contests and learning opportunities to help share important stories of hope and inspiration with the world. Please enjoy this newsletter and share it with friends and family.

We treasure our global learning community. Please take care of yourselves, and each other, as we navigate 2025 together.

Sincerely,

The MY HERO Team

MY HERO Education Outreach Director Laura Nietzer presents: Using MY HERO to Inspire Compassion, Cross-Cultural Understanding, and Peace. Online presentations will take place on January 16th, at 7:30 am PST and 10:30 EST.

Click here for more information.

Students of all ages can submit artwork to the MY HERO Visualize Heroism Art Contest. The submission deadline is January 20, 2025. Click here to see previous winners. Learn about all MY HERO Contests.

The MY HERO Teacher's Calendar has media-rich lesson plans to enhance classroom learning. Click on the calendar links below.

JANUARY 2025

January 16 - Charter for Compassion EdNet Forum with MY HERO

January 17 - Kid Inventors Day

January 20 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

January 20 - Visualize Heroism Art Contest Deadline

January 27 - Holocaust Remembrance Day

FEBRUARY

February - Black History Month

February 11 - International Day of Women and Girls in Science

February 20 - World Day of Social Justice

Ocean enthusiasts can submit their short, hero-themed films for the Sylvia Earle Ocean Conservation Award, sponsored by MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation's One World One Ocean Campaign. The Earle Award goes to a student and a professional filmmakers who best feature the beauty of the ocean.

Sylvia Earle is a world-famous ocean explorer, scientist, and champion for the world's oceans. The Earle Award goes to films that show the beauty of the sea, or feature activists working to protect the oceans.

The deadline is May 1st.

Artists of all ages are welcome to submit a portrait of their hero to the Robert Shetterly Portrait Contest. Works submitted will be judged by artist Robert Shetterly, founder of Americans Who Tell the Truth and the MY HERO Gallery staff.

The deadline is May 1, 2025.

Submissions are being accepted for the 2025 MY HERO International Film Festival.

Submit your short film here

MY HERO'S Media Arts Resources are free and available to help students make short films.

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