Awards
Have your students completed an environmental project in your school
or community? Are you proud and excited about the work they have done?
Then you should apply for the President's Environmental Youth Award!
Every year, this program recognizes students for participating in and
completing outstanding environmental projects.
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/
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
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. Resource guides for teachers
provide extensive support for student investigations that strengthen science,
math, technology and geography skills.
www.nsip.net
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 Awards
Sponsored by Action for Nature (AFN), the Young Eco-Hero Awards recognizes
succesful 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
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