Adopt-a-Float Sticker Contest
2025 Sticker Contest
The 2025 Adopt-a-Float Sticker Contest is now open and accepting entries! Submit your design by February 1, 2025 for the chance to be featured on the 2025 Sticker!
Submission Guidelines
- Submission must be sent as a digital image file in one of the following formats: jpg, png, or pdf
- Design must be at least 3″ on each side at 300 dpi
- Email entry to mage@mbari.org or an access link (through Google Drive, Dropbox, or similar) if the file is too big to email
- Sticker design must include the words “Adopt-a-Float”
- Sticker design must include both float websites (go-bgc.org and soccom.princeton.edu)
- Sticker design must also include the NSF logo (https://www.nsf.gov/policies/logos.jsp)
- Preference will be given to designs that show the float in the water (with no ocean floor)
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The 2024 winning sticker design from Emily Hamilton at Alma Bryant High School in Irvington, Alabama
![](https://www.go-bgc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/LM-Adopt-a-Float-e1698687215403-700x675.png)
The 2023 winning sticker design from Logan Milochik at Stone Valley Middle School in Alamo, California
SOCCOM and GO-BGC held a sticker contest to help bring attention to the Adopt-A-Float program. With over 25 entries from three different schools, the outreach team selected a design from Bethany at Stone Valley Middle School in Alamo, CA for the sticker. Stone Valley Middle School 7th graders have adopted both a SOCCOM (Larry the Lion) and a GO-BGC (Squeezing Time) float. Both of these floats were deployed in 2022/2023. There were an additional three sticker designs that were designated as honorable mentions. In 2022, the outreach team selected a design from Logan Milochik for the 2023 sticker (see image above) and the 2024 sticker was designed by Emily Hamilton at Alma Bryant High School in Ivington, Alabama.
Bethany says:
I painted this because it shows all the life in the ocean and the reason SOCCOM made these floats was for a better ocean, and with a better ocean, there are healthier, happier and more living things in the sea.
![Adopt A Float Sticker Bothwebsites Nsflogo FINAL Updated Float design by Bethany Liu Story about drawing: I painted this because it shows all the life in the ocean and the reason SOCCOM made these floats was for a better ocean, and with a better ocean, there are healthier, happier and more living things in the sea.](https://www.go-bgc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Adopt-a-float_sticker_bothwebsites_nsflogo_FINAL_updated.jpg)
The 2022 winning sticker design from Bethany at Stone Valley Middle School in Alamo, California