European Space Foundation was selected by Pratt & Whitney and the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) as a winner of the 2023 Pratt & Whitney Global E-STEM Awards. Satheeshkumar Kumarasingam, Pratt & Whitney’s chief transformation and strategy officer, bestowed grants totaling $250,000 to 15 nonprofit organizations in 12 countries. Each group demonstrated a remarkable commitment to advancing environmental, science, technology, engineering, and math (E-STEM) education programs for underrepresented students ages 11–22.
European Space Foundation, organizer of the European Rover Challenge – a globally recognized space and robotics event – is actively involved in educating and inspiring the next generation of E-STEM professionals by providing them tools to understand and test in practice the information they learn. It also organizes a series of interactive workshops and lectures to show how satellite data can help to observe climate change and its effects. More than 5,500 students have participated in this project since 2021.
“The Pratt & Whitney Global E-STEM Excellence Prize will allow us to continue this project and organize additional workshops, as well as to expand the coverage of the climate change topics during the 10th edition of the European Rover Challenge in 2024”, said Lukasz Wilczynski, President of the European Space Foundation.
Learn more about European Space Foundation in this link: European Space Foundation
A panel of judges from Pratt & Whitney and NAAEE selected the recipients from a pool of over 150 applicants spanning 40 countries. The winners were publicly announced on October 17 at the NAAEE Annual Conference, including also:
Deniz Temiz Derneği (Turkiye), Techbridge Girls (United States), Asociación Territorios Vivos El Salvador (El Salvador), BLAKE – Sir Peter Blake Trust (New Zealand), Fablab Winam Foundation (Kenya), Green Girls Platform (Malawi), Green Growth Asia Foundation (Malaysia), Nova Scotia Community College Foundation (Canada), People Protecting the Environment Foundation (Thailand), Smart Cheli (Nepal), Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc.(United States), United Community Nepal – UniCoN (Nepal), Webfala Digital Skills for all Initiative (Nigeria).
Learn more about all of this year’s winners by reading their biographies on Pratt & Whitney’s website: http://prattwhitney.com/ESTEM
Video with Awardees
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About European Space Foundation
European Space Foundation creates and engages into top space-focused projects, carefully selected basing on their exceptional community-building or space advocacy potential. In addition to science and technology, our projects also cover business and environment-related topics.
We are bringing together top professionals from space–faring countries, new talents and ideas from the aspiring areas to create new synergies and inspire next generation. Our top project is the European Rover Challenge (ERC) – Europe’s most significant space and robotics events, combining an international planetary rover competition with Inspiration Zone featuring representatives of science, technology and business worldwide. The event has been organized since 2014. Over the years, ERC has become a globally recognized brand by the largest space agencies and international organizations as an example of a great event, popularizing the latest achievements in science and technology among a wide audience.
About NAAEE
For more than five decades, the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) has served as the professional association, champion, and backbone organization for the field of environmental education (EE), working with EE professionals across United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as globally, to advance environmental literacy and civic engagement to create a more equitable and sustainable future. For more information on NAAEE, visit https://naaee.org.
More information:
Maciej Myśliwiec | m.mysliwiec@planetpartners.pl
