Have you completed an environmental project for your school or community? Would you like to find an environmental competition that you could enter? Read the links below to learn about programs that recognize students for participating in and completing outstanding environmental projects.

EE Link - Student Award and Grant Programs
For students looking for opportunities to participate in environmental award programs. Options range from essay contests to community service projects.
eelink.net/studentawardandgrantprograms(environmentaltopics).html

Envirothon
Sponsored by Canon, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and others, the Envirothon is an annual competition held for high school students throughout North America. Designed as a way to teach kids about environmental education, the best teams from over 47 states and provinces come together during the summer to compete.
www.envirothon.org/

The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes
This award recognizes young people who have shown extraordinary leadership in making our world better in a number of diverse ways including protecting the environment.
/www.barronprize.org/

NASA Student Involvement Program
Design an experiment that NASA astronauts carry out in space! Figure out how what we know about Earth's environment can help plan Mars explorations! This national educational and competitive program for grades K-12 connects students with NASA's space exploration and discovery programs.
www.nsip.net/index.cfm

President's Environmental Youth Awards
The PEYA program honors young people for their efforts to protect the environment. Learn what others have done and how awards are earned.
www.epa.gov/enviroed/awards.html

Young Eco-Hero Award
Sponsored by Action for Nature (AFN), the Young Eco-Hero Awards recognizes successful personal action projects of young people aged 8-16 from all over the world. Action for Nature's mission is to foster respect and affection for nature through personal action.
www.actionfornature.org/ecoheroawards.htm