Student Hub

There are different ways to use the resources on the Student Hub. You don’t need to create an account to access any of our educational content, however, by creating an account you can track your progress, earn Hours, certificates and prizes, apply for the Student Mini-Grant, and be highlighted in our Student Spotlight articles. These are the different ways you might use the Student Hub: 

• Create an individual account to track your personal achievements and contributions to addressing plastic pollution. Browse our Actions page to find over 35 different ways to make positive changes at home, at school, and in your community.  
• Create a team account and work together to complete Actions that address plastic pollution at the home, school, and community level. The team manager creates and manages the account for the whole team.  
• Class accounts can be created by teachers who want to use the Student Hub in class for class assignments, homework or extra credit.  Learn more in our How-to Guide: Ideas for using the Student Hub to empower your students to take action. 
• Don’t create an account, but just use the Actions, Solution Set videos, and other resources for inspiration and guidance on your journey to address plastic pollution. 
• Get inspired by your peers by reading or watching our Student Spotlights which share about the incredible work being done by young people around the world to put an end to our overuse of plastic.  
• Get funding to support your projects, books and equipment requirements, community events, unpaid internships and more through our global Student Mini-grants. 

All submissions will be reviewed by real humans working at Algalita. We will be approving or rejecting submissions on a grading scale. Submissions will be judged for quality of answers (see below), completeness, authenticity, and personality. Most of the questions in the submission forms do not have correct answers. We want to see your effort, creativity, and thoughtfulness in your answers. 

We understand that we are in the age of AI. AI is a powerful learning tool but has its limitations. As we want to maintain the educational authenticity and quality of our program, we use tools and our intuition to detect AI.

Your response must be original and register as maximum 30% AI-generated in our third-party testing, or it will be declined. We would rather see your effort, and a few spelling and grammatical errors, than a perfect but boring submission created by AI.

No. We are thrilled that our Wayfinder Society community is international!  We know that not everyone is a native English speaker, so if you feel more comfortable crafting your response in your native language, feel free to do so. Either, you can use an online translation tool to translate your responses to English, or we will do so on our end before reviewing.