Sustainability Advocacy Challenge (SAC)

In support of MOE’s continued efforts to promote Sustainable Living under SGP 2030, SAC serves as a refreshed outreach programme that replaces the National Youth Upcycling Movement (NYUM) previously jointly organized by Crescent Girls’ School and Terra SG.

Through its ‘By Youths, For All’ student-centric approach, SAC empowers each student team to achieve the following objectives: 

a) [Environmental Education] To educate youth regarding environmental sustainability and conservation issues.

b) [Environmental Stewardship] To nurture youths to be eco-stewards who are inspired to take action in promoting a culture of sustainable living and actively practise green citizenry that contributes to a sustainable Singapore. 

For SAC 2026, there will be two available tracks for which schools can sign up:

Advocacy Module

Participating schools can nominate a team of 3 to 5 students from Primary 4 upwards to collaborate and act as Green Champions to pilot sustainability efforts in schools and execute their planned outreach activities. Students in participating teams are strongly encouraged to be creators, connectors and contributors and spearhead their own sustainability initiative(s). The Green Champions can come up with their own authentic, interesting and engaging activities to reach out to as many members of the community as possible.

There are 3 phases of movement in the SAC Advocacy Module.

Phase 1: Learn

All members of participating teams are strongly encouraged to sign up for and to attend the SAC Symposium that will take place from 2.30pm to 5.30pm on 17 April 2026 at one of the Learn@Experiential Hub, The Carbon Gallery, 3A Pasir Ris Drive 6, #01-31, Vidacity Singapore 519422. The half-day symposium will equip participants with requisite knowledge and skills to design their community outreach project or sustainability initiative.

Phase 2: Create

Teams will then collaborate to design their own authentic, interesting and engaging activities/initiatives to promote sustainable living and in doing so, they are able to reach out to as many members of the community (school / neighbourhood etc.) Teams are strongly encouraged to attend an online Presentation-cum-Consultation session (25 – 26 March and 2 – 3 June 2026) to showcase their advocacy plans to an expert panel for feedback. Participation in this consultation session is option.

Phase 3: Advocate

Teams will then execute their advocacy plans/sustainability initiatives anytime from 26 March to 13 September 2026. Teams will need to submit a Final Report that documents their advocacy plans /sustainability initiatives (planning stage to implementation stage, reflections etc). 

Three categories of awards (Gold, Silver and Bronze) will be presented at the end of SAC to recognise the achievements of every team. Participation in the SAC may also be considered as part of the school’s contribution to efforts in environmental conservation when applying for the School Green Awards. 

Timeline and Summary of Key Dates

Schools interested in participating can register their interest here by 8 April 2026:

Advocacy Module sign up link: https://for.edu.sg/i0x0ls ↗ (opens in new tab)

Experiential Module

Participating schools can nominate up to 40 students to take part in a experiential learning journey where they will be experiencing the latest sustainability knowledge learning in the area of carbon literacy, eco stewardship, green futures and also sustainability outreach.

Participants will be exposed to a specially designed experiential module to level up their understanding of sustainability and raises their awareness & key content to facilitate their advocacy module development.

Schools interested in participating can register their interest here.

Experiential Module sign up link: https://for.edu.sg/ty0j5q ↗ (opens in new tab)