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Petit Family Foundation Women In Science Leadership Award – STEM Professional

Petit Family Foundation Women In Science Leadership Award – Student

STEM Achievement Award – K-12 Educator Of the Year

STEM Achievement Award – Student

STEM Achievement Award – Higher Education

STEM Achievement Award – Innovator

STEM Achievement Award – Organization (Non-profit)

STEM Achievement Award - Industry

Question 1: Describe the nominee’s achievements in her STEM field. Please keep your response to under 500 words.

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Question 2: How does the nominee’s work open STEM and STEM career possibilities to diverse audiences? Please keep your response to under 500 words.

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Question 3: Describe the nominee’s efforts to mentor and support girls and/or women within her institution. Please keep your response to under 500 words.

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Question 4: If the nominee is an academic (faculty or researcher at a college or university), describe the nominee’s efforts to mentor and support girls and/or women independent of her institution. Please keep your response to under 500 words.

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Question 5: Please provide two letters of recommendation for this award.

Question 1: Describe the audience that benefits from this student’s work in STEM?

Question 2: Describe how this student has gone above and beyond her required classwork to benefit their community?

Question 3: What else would you like us to know about this student?

Question 1: Briefly summarize the individual’s involvement in STEM and STEM education, including the population they reach through their efforts.

Question 2: How does the individual’s work open STEM and STEM career possibilities to diverse audiences?

Question 3: What else should we know about this individual’s STEM mission driven efforts?

This award recognizes and celebrates a girl in grades 9-12, who has shown curiosity, achievement and/or leadership in one or more STEM fields. This could be through promoting STEM education in the school or community, or through the creation and development of a novel product or technology tool.
Examples of creative student projects or activities that demonstrate STEM curiosity and achievement are diverse and wide-ranging, and may include the following:

Organizing and promoting an interactive community display on climate change at the local library.
Mentoring/tutoring younger students in STEM subjects, and acting as an inspiring role model.
Planning and coordinating a far-reaching school or community book read and discussion that explores our changing world through science.
Writing guest editorials for news outlets from a student perspective on compelling and timely STEM issues.
Using robotic technology to develop adaptive tools for disabled children.

Question 1: Describe the audience that benefits from this student’s work?

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Question 2: Describe how this student has gone above and beyond her required classwork to benefit their community?

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Question 3: What else would you like us to know about this student?

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Question 1: Briefly summarize the individual’s involvement in STEM and STEM education, including the population they reach through their efforts.

Question 2: How does the individual’s work open STEM and STEM career possibilities to diverse audiences?

Question 3: What else should we know about this individual’s STEM mission driven efforts?

Question 1: Briefly summarize the organization’s involvement in STEM and STEM education, including the population they reach through their efforts.

Question 2: How does the organization’s work open STEM and STEM career possibilities to diverse audiences?

Question 3: Describe how this organization’s work intersects with the broader STEM Education ecosystem.

Question 1: Briefly summarize the company's involvement in STEM and STEM education, including the population they reach through their efforts.

Question 2: How does the company's work open STEM and STEM career possibilities to diverse audiences?

Question 3: What else should we know about this company's STEM mission driven efforts?

Question 1: Briefly summarize the individual's involvement in STEM and STEM education, including the population they reach through their efforts.

Question 2: How does the individual's work open STEM and STEM career possibilities to diverse audiences?

Question 3: What else should we know about this individual's STEM mission driven efforts?

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