Awards

Environmental Challenge Education Program

Submission Deadlines for each Challenge are:
Challenge #2 (Water) - November 5, 2007
Challenge #3 (Air) - December 5, 2007
Challenge #4 (Climate) - January 7, 2008 Deadline has passed for Challenge #1 The Lexus Environmental Challenge program is designed to educate and empower middle and high school students across the United States to take action to improve the environment in their communities. Middle and high school teams comprised of five to ten students and one teacher advisor are invited to participate in one or more of the challenges. Winning teams will each receive a total of $3,000 in scholarships and grants and will be invited to participate in the Final Challenge, where fourteen finalists and two grand-prize-winning teams will be selected. Each of the 14 finalists will receive a total of $50,000 in grants and scholarships, and the two grand-prize-winning teams will each receive $75,000, to be shared by the students, teacher advisor, and school.
http://www.lexus.com/about/corporate/community.html

President's Environmental Youth Award

Deadline Reminder Regional Deadline: October 31, 2007
This EPA-sponsored award program recognizes young people across America for projects which demonstrate their commitment to the environment. K-12 students, sponsored by an adult, submit evidence of a completed project as defined in the application to their local EPA regional office.
http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/peya/index.html

Student Field Trip Grant Program

Deadline: November 1, 2007
The Target Field Trip Grant program will award grants to schools across the United States for field trips in the spring of 2008 such as museum, environmental, or science projects; artistic and cultural experiences; and civics or community service projects. Up to 1,600 grants of up to $1,000 each will be awarded in February 2008.
http://sites.target.com/site/en/corporate/page.jsp?contentId=PRD03-002537

The Skidmore Prize (Portland)

http://www.mointel.com/skidmore/AboutSkidmorePrize.cfm

The Stockholm Junior Water Prize

The Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP) is the most prestigious international youth award for a high school water science research project.  Its purpose is to increase students' interest in water-related issues and research, and to sensitize them - as future leaders - to global water challenges.

SJWP is open to projects aimed at improving the quality of life through improvement of water quality, water resources management, water protection or water and wastewater treatment.

SJWP welcomes theoretical and applied science studies as well as projects aimed at solving community water problems. The projects may focus on local, regional, national or global topics.  It is essential that all projects use a research oriented approach, which means that they must use scientifically accepted methodologies for experimentation, monitoring and reporting the results, including statistical analyses.

Awards  
In the United States, the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and its member associations organize the U.S. national, state, and local SJWP competitions with support from ITT Corporation, The Coca-Cola Company and Delta Air Lines. WEF member associations select state SJWP winners and sponsor the student, and student's science teacher to attend the national competition. In 2007,  the U.S. competition will be in Phoenix, Arizona June 21-23, 2007, hosted by the Arizona Water & Pollution Control Association.

A broad array of awards and incentives are offered through the US SJWP competition:

  • The US winner will receive $3,000, a sculpture award, and expense paid trips to the following:
    Stockholm, Sweden to compete in the international SJWP, August 11-17, 2007
    San Diego, California to attend and display their research at the WEF Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC®), October 13-17, 2007. 

  • The US winner's school will receive a $1000 education grant to enhance water science education and research in the classroom.

  • Up to three finalists will receive $1,000 each.

International Competition
The International Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP) competition takes place in Sweden during World Water Week, August 11-17, 2007.  National SJWP winners from an anticipated 30+ countries, will participate in the seven-day educational and cultural exchange program. Finalists will attend the Stockholm Water Prize Ceremony and Royal Banquet at the Stockholm City Hall, in the presence of HM King Carl XVI Gustaf and HM Queen Silvia. It will be a night they will never forget!

Students will exhibit their projects at the Stockholm Water Symposium where they will discuss their project with the jury, researchers, politicians, and the media. The international SJWP winner will receive $5,000 USD and a blue crystal sculpture.

The International SJWP was founded by the Stockholm Water Foundation. HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden is the patron of the prize. It is sponsored by ITT Corporation.

For more information about the international SJWP visit the Stockholm International Water Institute website at www.SIWI.org.

Student Water Journalism – ITT Award

ITT Industries is presenting a journalist award for high school students.  The purpose of the award is like the Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP).  It aims to encourage young people’s interest in writing about and raising awareness of issues concerning water and the environment. The prize will be given annually for outstanding water journalism by a young person. It seeks to inspire young people to pursue a journalism focus on water and the environment.  Additionally, the competition will promote a community dialogue on water issues, and allow students to learn the best resources available to write on water issues.

Prize Recognition
The winners of the prize (US and Sweden each) will receive an expense paid trip to Stockholm, Sweden to report on the international Stockholm Junior Water Prize in 2006.  The student’s advisor will also receive an expense paid trip to Stockholm to accompany the winning student.  The student will receive $1,000 upon publication of the student’s editorial, feature or commentary that is directly related to his or her experiences at the SJWP and at World Water Week in Sweden.  Also, each finalist’s school will receive a plaque recognizing the student and school's participation in water/environmental journalism education.

Entry Criteria
The national competitions in the United States and in Sweden will be open to young people up to the age of 20 who have pursued journalism projects focusing on local, regional, national or global topics of environmental, scientific, social or technological importance as it relates to water.
The entry must be a feature, an editorial or a commentary. The entry must be original student work and must have been published or broadcast within one year of the contest deadline. Date of publication/broadcast must be indicated and verifiable. The individual (or team of students who worked on the same entry) must be a member of his or her high school's newspaper, newsmagazine, yearbook and literary-art magazine staff or a member of his or her high school's Web, radio or television staff. 
http://www.wef.org/LearnAboutWater/ForStudents/SJWP/StudentWaterAwardITT.htm