Aug
01

Nominations are open for the Smithsonian Education Awards

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I am pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the Smithsonian Education Awards. These awards honor outstanding achievements in education and recognize creativity, excellence, and commitment to serving the nation through educational programming, exhibits, publications, and digital media. The awards are:

  • The Smithsonian Education Achievement Award. This award honors consistent and outstanding performance in education. Nominees must be individuals with at least three years of employment at the Smithsonian.
  • The Smithsonian Education Innovation Award. This award recognizes an outstanding program, resource, or other education initiative produced within the past two years. Nominees may be individuals or teams.

The $5,000 cash awards are open to all Smithsonian employees and may be used to participate in national conferences (to make presentations or serve on committees), purchase professional journals or publications, make site visits to observe other programs, register in continuing education or university coursework, or develop new education initiatives.

This program is generously supported by the Smithsonian Women’s Committee and was endowed in honor of its 40th anniversary of service to the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access coordinates the program, and an external committee of museum and education professionals makes the award selections.

Smithsonian employees may nominate themselves or their colleagues. More information on the nomination process, including criteria for each award and the application guidelines, is available on the Smithsonian Education Awards website. Please send completed submissions as a PDF document to Tess Porter at portert@si.edu by 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 28.

Education is at the heart of our mission. I hope you will take a moment to nominate a deserving colleague or team of colleagues for these awards.

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About the Author:

David J. Skorton is the 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian. A board-certified cardiologist whose specialty is congenital heart disease and cardiac imaging, Skorton is also an avid jazz musician and a passionate supporter of the arts and humanities.