Get Ready Schools Challenge
The Get Ready Schools Challenge is a fun and interactive way for children to learn how to prepare their households for an emergency.
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This year’s Challenge is earthquake-themed, in collaboration with ShakeOut 2025. It includes eight fun activities to help children create a household emergency plan, fix potential hazards in their home, and know the right thing to do if an emergency strikes.
Sign up your school
How to sign up your school
It's simple:
- Sign up your school for the Get Ready Schools Challenge using the online form.
- You'll receive the PDF activity sheet via email.
- Ask your students to complete the challenges by 31 August, 2025.
To be eligible for a prize, your school has to sign up for ShakeOut before entries for the Get Ready Schools Challenge close on 31 August!
Prizes
- There are 15 iPad 11s to give away this year – one for each district.
- To qualify for the prize draws, your school has to also sign up for ShakeOut, so make sure you do that before entries close on August 31!
- On 1 September, we will announce the 15 winning schools on this page, and will work with the schools to choose a winning student.
About the Get Ready Schools Challenge
The Get Ready Schools Challenge is a joint initiative by the Natural Hazards Commission(external link) and the National Emergency Management Agency(external link).
The Get Ready Schools Challenge is a fun and interactive way for children to learn how to prepare their households for an emergency.
Download the challenge.
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Competition period
- The competition runs from 14 July 2025 - 31 August 2025.
- Registrations for the Get Ready Schools Challenge open on 14 July 2025 and close on 31 August 2025. Registrations after 31 August 2025 will not be eligible for the prize draws.
Prize draw entry
- To enter the prize draw, each entrant must:
- sign up for the Get Ready Schools Challenge before 31 August 2025
- sign up to ShakeOut 2025 before 31 August 2025
- You may only submit one Entry during the Competition Period and each entrant can only win one prize.
- You are responsible for ensuring that any information provided as part of an Entry is complete and correct. Incomplete, incorrect, indecipherable, illegible or late entries will be invalid.
- The National Emergency Management Agency reserves the right, at any time, to verify the validity of Entries and entrants, and to disqualify any entrant who submits an Entry that is not in accordance with these Terms and Conditions or who tampers with the entry process. Failure by the National Emergency Management Agency to enforce any of its rights at any stage does not constitute a waiver of those rights.
Prize draw
The National Emergency Management Agency will use its best endeavours to contact each winner by using the contact details provided supplied in each Winning Entry within 5 business days from the prize draw. However, if the National Emergency Management Agency cannot contact any winner within a reasonable time, they may redraw for the relevant prize.
Winners will be announced by the local Civil Defence Emergency Management Group.
All decisions regarding this Competition by NEMA will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
General
Personal information collected by the Get Ready Schools Challenge for the purposes of the Competition will only be used in connection with this Competition or as otherwise set out in these Terms and Conditions. You have a right of access to and the right to request correction of your personal information.
If you are a prize winner, you agree to participate in publicity organised by NEMA or your local Civil Defence Emergency Management Group and you also agree to the use of your name, likeness and image for publicity and promotional purposes for an unlimited period in any media, without compensation. This includes, but is not limited to, social media and event websites and media releases.
The National Emergency Management Agency reserves the right to terminate, suspend or modify the Competition in response to technical failures, fraud or any other factors out of the reasonable control of the National Emergency Management Agency. Any such updates will be displayed on the Get Ready Schools Challenge website.
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