The Swinburne Sarawak Green Club’s Earth Hour Challenge took place on 28 March 2020, celebrating Earth Hour, when people all over the globe switch off their lights for one hour in an effort to promote awareness of the need to reduce our carbon footprints.

The event was organized as an alternative to the annual Earth Hour Run that usually involves students from the Green and Running clubs taking a run and then lighting candles in the shape of 60+, representing the one hour and more, when lights are switched off on campus, to conserve energy. The annual Earth Hour Run was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but the Green Club persisted, and ran an online celebration of Earth Hour instead.

Students were encouraged to engage by sharing their Earth Hour activities through Instagram and Twitter.

The Instagram competition required students to post a photograph and accompanying write-up of their efforts to reduce energy consumption during Earth Hour. For the Twitter competition, students were asked to post a write-up in fewer than 200 words on Earth Hour aims.

The Instagram competition was won by Sharon Chua Ching Wen  (her photograph shown above best captures the spirit of Earth Hour) while the Twitter competition was won by Michelle Ho Ying who wrote a poem on celebrating Earth Hour during the pandemic.