Florida Utility, High School, and Marine Center Among Award Recipients for AWWA Water Equation Youth STEAM Programs

The American Water Works Association’s Water Equation program has announced that it will fund STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) youth education programs totaling $11,050.

The award recipients are: S New Jersey Sea Grant S Girls Scouts of Central New Jersey S Pinellas County Utilities South Cross

Bayou (SCB) Education Program S Loggerhead Marinelife Center, Girls of

Promise, and Women’s Foundation of

Arkansas S Seminole High School STEAM

Academy

Funds for Water, Education, and Science

New Jersey Sea Grant will use its awarded funds to create a pilot Aquaculture Apprenticeship Program to provide a pathway for students to enter a career in the aquaculture sector.

Girl Scouts of Central New Jersey will celebrate February as STEAM month and use its awarded funds to develop the curriculum to inspire girls to embrace and celebrate scientific discoveries.

The Pinellas County Utilities SCB Education Program in Florida will receive funds for its collaboration with Pinellas County Schools, Florida Section AWWA (FSAWWA), and the West Coast Chapter of the Florida Water Environment Association (FWEA) to host a 2022 Water Festival to promote water education and careers.

Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Jupiter will receive funds for its Unwrap the Waves initiative, which reaches schools, community partners, and students to reduce trash in aqua ecosystems.

The award to Seminole High School’s STEAM Academy in Sanford will fund a project that links established science and math technologies involving data collection and analysis to environmental, construction, and electrical engineering technologies.

Central Arkansas Water in Little Rock will receive funds to provide support for STEM learning to area organizations, including Girls of Promise and the newly founded Women’s Foundation of Arkansas internship program, which is for college women of color majoring in STEM fields. The programs will expose them to careers in conservation and the environment.

Nominations and Awards Funding

Funding for youth STEAM programs is provided through the Water Equation Women for Water Circle of Giving, which accepts nominations and awards funding. Donations for the program are accepted at http://we.awwa.org/we2022, or contact Michelle Hektor, AWWA senior manager of development, at mhektor@awwa.org for more information. S