The Environmental Protection Administration Executive Yuan implements the Environmental Education Law in order to promote the environmental education in public with the project of environmental knowledge challenge competition. The purpose of this project is to increase participants and citizens’ awareness and knowledge about environmental protection. The environmental knowledge challenge competition is the real practice of people for the purpose of learning the knowledge and practice of environmental knowledge. There are four groups: elementary, junior high school, senior high school and social groups which were from the preliminary round of the 22 counties (cities), to the national final competition. The competition of this year was distributed into two stages: knockout stage and sudden death. In the knockout stage, every group accepted the participants in top 50% of scores by the paper test to sudden death. During sudden death, the participants played off by Toss-Up questions, if the score is tied at the end of the game, the tie is broken by the player-killing to rank Top 5 for each group and the four groups will be 20 winners. The project planned and arranged 22 counties or cities’ final round participants and attendants’ accommodation, transportation, dinning, resting area, competition area, judges, broadcast, host, awards and etc. Approximately a thousand of people attended the competition. Those people who are participants and attendants of the counties (cities) take responsibility for environmental protection. They promote the concept of environmental knowledge and environmental education all over the country. Environmental Protection is not only a slogan but the action. Individuals should do the best to protect the environment in daily life. The environment which we live together is getting better and better.

Environmental Knowledge Challenge Competition, Environmental Education, Environmental Knowledge