Thanks to NAAEE for alerting us to the Underwriters Laboratories Education Award programme which has recognized five organizations for empowering learners and communities by linking the environment to STEM concepts, or E-STEM. This year’s winners are:
- NY Sun Works Greenhouse Project, New York, $100,000, a New York City-wide initiative using hydroponic farming technology to educate students and teachers about sustainable urban agriculture
- Wild Center’s Adirondack Youth Climate Program, New York, $50,000, a year-round program emphasizing climate literacy and community action related to climate issues that reaches out to underserved high school students and teachers in the rural Adirondack region
- Oceans Learning Partnership’s Coastal Explorers Field School, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, $50,000, which operates a ‘floating classroom’ and onshore laboratories that give students in the Newfoundland and Labrador province opportunities to interact with marine scientists
- Chincoteague Bay Field Station’s SPARK (Shore People Advancing Readiness for Knowledge), Virginia, $25,000, which fosters environmental science interactions outside the classroom between parents and children in the Accomack County area of Virginia
- Northeast Michigan Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative (NEMIGLSI) of the Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan, $25,000, which serves youth of all ages in eight rural northern Lake Huron counties in the state by offering environmental Great Lakes and natural resource stewardship projects
For more information on the ULIEA, read the full press release, and visit: http://ulinnovationeducation.naaee.net. Congratulations again to all of the winners!