Application Deadline: President’s Environmental Youth and Environmental Educator Awards
EPA has extended the deadline for applications for the 2025 President’s Environmental Youth Awards (PEYA) and Presidential Innovation Awards for Environmental Educators (PIAEE). Applications for both awards are now due no later than Friday, January 16, 2026.
The EPA is focused on Powering the Great American Comeback and wants to recognize students and educators across the country who demonstrate outstanding environmental stewardship. To do this, EPA has extended the deadline to give applicants the opportunity to utilize their winter breaks to complete and submit their applications.
The 1990 National Environmental Education Act established PEYA, which recognizes outstanding environmental stewardship projects from students in Grades K-12 that protect our nation’s natural resources. The act also established PIAEE, which recognizes outstanding Grade K-12 educators who use environmental education as a learning tool to excite students and communities about protecting human health and the environment.
Projects should align with only one or more of the focus areas listed below:
- Agricultural practices
- Artificial Intelligence
- Food waste
- Recycling
- School gardens or green space (e.g., playground, park or other community space)
- Use science, data analysis or other creative approaches
- Water infrastructure
- Water quality and/or litter within waterways