AWARDS

  • 2024 -  Excellence in Summer Service Education Awards — Josie Skinner, Mackie Skinner, Alyssa Clay, and Jack McGowan, Interns

  • 2024 -  STEM Camps Program – Indiana Afterschool Network’s Quality Leader in STEM

  • 2023 – STEM Camps Program – Indiana Afterschool Network’s Quality Leader in STEM

  • 2023 – STEM Future Leaders Program – Indiana Afterschool Network’s Quality Leader in STEM

  • 2021 – Indiana State Tree Farm Association’s Outdoor Lab of the Year

  • 2020 – TechPoint Foundation for Youth (TPF4Y) Bridge Builder Mira Award

  • 2020 – Excellence in Summer Service Education Award – Peter Sperry, Intern 

  • 2020 – Executive Journey Fellowship – Vera Vander Kooy

  • 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 – Summer Youth Program Fund (SYPF)/Indy Summer Youth Programs (ISYP) Capital Project and Equipment Grant Recipient

  • 2019 – Isabella Jarana, Intern – Excellence in Summer Service Education Award

  • 2019 – Gene Stratton-Porter Awards – Angela Fitzgerald and Stacie Hernandez, Staff

  • 2018 – Soil and Water Conservation District River-Friendly Farmer Award

  • 2018 – McKinney Family Foundation Scholarship Recipient to attend The Fund Raising School IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy’s Fundraising and Advocacy for Environmental Nonprofits course

  • 2018 – Environmental Educators Association of Indiana’s Joe Wright Recognition of Excellence Award

  • 2017 – Hoosier Chapter Soil And Water Conservation Society’s Education and Communications Award 

  • 2017 – Excellence in Summer Service Education Award  – Madeline Anderson, Intern

  • 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024  – Summer Youth Program Fund (SYPF)/Indy Summer Youth Programs (ISYP) Grant Recipient