North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) Global E-STEM Awards 2025 (up to $50,000) – YOA

Deadline: July 2, 2025

Applications are open for the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) Global E-STEM Awards 2025. The Global E-STEM Awards acknowledge excellence and innovation in E-STEM with awards up to $50,000 USD. This program helps organizations that have interaction college students aged 11 to 22 in STEM matters to equip them with the information, expertise, and motivation to take motion to advance conservation stewardship and options, vitality effectivity, and subsequent-era transportation.

E-STEM engages college students in significant, actual-world environmental drawback-fixing that integrates science, know-how, engineering, and math (STEM). E-STEM isn’t solely a philosophy of instructing that promotes interdisciplinary studying but in addition evokes college students to apply what they study to assist remedy complicated environmental points.

Benefits

Awardees will obtain:

• Funding to assist their E-STEM packages.
• Global recognition of their group’s work via NAAEE and Pratt & Whitney’s platforms.
• Professional improvement and peer studying alternatives with E-STEM awardees.
• Access to the NAAEE community and Pratt & Whitney nonprofit neighborhood.

Awardees are anticipated to:

• Attend a digital 1-hour awardee orientation in late 2025 or early 2026.
• Evaluate and report on challenge actions and outcomes associated to STEM curiosity, STEM expertise, environmental literacy, and another challenge-particular outcomes via a midterm and ultimate report.
• Provide periodic updates on the challenge’s progress all through the award 12 months.
• Participate in quarterly alternatives to share challenge actions, outcomes, and classes realized with NAAEE and Pratt & Whitney employees, fellow E-STEM Awardees, and the general public (e.g., via blogs, social media, and/or different platforms).

Eligibility

Applicant organizations should:

• Be a faculty, tutorial establishment, or college, or a company tax-exempt beneath part 501(c) (3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code and never categorized as a personal basis, or a nonprofit or non-governmental group with acknowledged authorized standing of their respective overseas nation that’s equal to part 501(c)(3) standing. You might be requested to add documentation to show your nonprofit standing in your application.
• Not be topic to U.S. or different relevant governmental sanctions and different restrictions.
• Have a working checking account that may obtain digital funds in USD. The financial institution should not be topic to U.S. or different relevant governmental sanctions and different restrictions.
• Be ready to exhibit fiscal and administrative stability.
• Submit a program that labored with college students aged 11-22.
• Be ready to administer packages between December 2025–October 2026.

Application

Submit functions online through Submittable by 11:59 PM U.S. Eastern Time on July 2, 2025 (time converter). Only submissions in English might be thought of.

For extra info, go to NAAEE Global E-STEM Awards.