Nominate Excellent Environmental Education in Colorado 

Nominations for the 2021 Awards for Excellence in Environmental Education is OPEN. Nominations are due by Friday, April 23, 2021.

CAEE's awards recognize excellent environmental education in the following categories: 

• Advancing Environmental Literacy Award
• Enos A. Mills Lifetime Achievement Award
• Innovative Environmental Education Program Award (formal and nonformal programs)
• Outstanding Environmental Educator Award (for formal, nonformal, volunteer educators)
• Outstanding Young Environmental Leader Award
• Outstanding Retiring Educator Recognition

Read more about the nomination process and criteria.

Help CAEE recognize outstanding environmental education in Colorado by joining the Awards Selection Committee! For more information please email awards@caee.org.

2020 Excellence in Environmental Education Award Recipients

• Enos A. Mills Lifetime Achievement Award: Tom and Jody Cardamone, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies 
• Advancing Environmental Literacy Awards:
  • Eco-Cycle Schools Waste Reduction Programs
  • Early Childhood Health Outdoors (ECHO) Program - National Wildlife Federation
• Innovating EE Program Awards:
  • Rocky Mountain National Park Snow Science Program
  • Schools and Outdoor Learning Environments (SOLE) Program - Colorado Parks and Wildlife
  • Youth Water Leadership Program
• Outstanding Environmental Educator Award Recipients: 
  • Rachel Balduzzi
  • Robert Gay - Colorado Canyons Association
• Outstanding Youth Environmental Leadership Award: Katharine Kurtz - Denver School of Science and Technology Montview
   
• Outstanding Retiring Educator Recognition: 
  • Barb Horn
  • Sue Kenney
  • Jena Sanchez
  • Tim Sandsmark
  • Dave Sutherland

  View the 2020 Awards Booklet.
  
  See a list of past award recipients.

  Read more about past award recipients in yearly award recognition booklets.
   

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  Awards Celebration Event

  Each year individuals and organizations from around the state of Colorado are recognized and honored for their hard work and dedication in the field of environmental education at an Awards Banquet.  Awards honor and celebrate environmental education programs, the lifetime accomplishments of an individual in the field of environmental education, and retiring environmental educators.
  
  Please stay tuned for more information on this year's Excellence in EE Awards Celebration event!