The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in partnership with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, has celebrated an awards ceremony for the 2022 Presidential Environmental Youth Award (PEYA) and the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators (PIAEE).
Each year, the nation's youth are recognized for outstanding dedication to environmental stewardship, while teachers are honored for promoting environmental awareness and education.
“We’re excited to celebrate the climate action and environmental stewardship of our outstanding students and teachers,” said EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe. “Acting on climate and environmental problem-solving starts with education, I am looking forward to seeing what our awardees do next.”
Environmental Youth Award
Since 1971, the President of the United States has joined with EPA to recognize young people for protecting our nation's air, water, land, and ecology. The PEYA program recognizes outstanding environmental stewardship projects developed by K-12 youth.
This program honors and brings to light a wide variety of projects developed by students, school classes and clubs, youth camps, and youth organizations to promote environmental awareness and action in their schools and communities.
Detailed descriptions of the PEYA winning projects are available here.
Innovation Award for Environmental Educators
PIAEE is another program recognizing outstanding K-12 teachers who employ innovative approaches to environmental education and use the environment as a context to engage their students. With each teacher providing informal hands-on environmental education to students, helping to advance their knowledge of real-world environmental issues while at the same time allowing the teachers to bring creative ways into the classroom to teach their students about the environment.
Detailed descriptions of the PIAEE winning projects are available here.
