Welcome to CFK
Caring for the Kenai is an award winning environmental contest that challenges high school students to answer the question "what can I do, invent, or create to better care for the environment on the Kenai Peninsula, or to help improve the area's preparedness for a natural disaster?" This contest brings together the entire community of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula and offers over $25,000 in cash awards to area schools and local students.
This contest is co-sponsored by Chevron and Tesoro. Through their sponsorship and the support of many other organizations, this contest has been recognized on the national level. We invite you to browse this web site and learn more about why this community partnership is so successful!
Congratulations to Jenna Hansen for taking top honors!
With a plan to turn glass trash into fashion jewelry Jenna Hansen of Nikiski High School won top honors and $1,600 dollars cash at the 2012 Caring for the Kenai (CFK) environmental awareness competition. “I didn’t enter CFK because it was a class assignment, I entered because my mom told me to, and I am really glad she did,” she said. Hansen created beautiful jewelry from broken trash glass that she used the inlet tides to shape into polished jewels, then presented a fashion show and told the judges about her new business, “Not only is the sea glass great for jewelry but I already have an order from Peninsula Tile and Stone for landscaping purposes.” Read full story
“The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is pleased to again be a part of the Caring for the Kenai competition. The District’s students greatly appreciate both Chevron and Tesoro’s generous sponsorship of this important annual event. The opportunity that Caring for the Kenai offers our students to showcase their creativity and ingenuity is unsurpassed.”
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Dr. Steve Atwater KPBSD Superintendent of Schools
2010 Caring for the Kenai Highlight Video
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