Stories

How STEM Education Supports Career Opportunities in Rural Communities

NEEF grants help rural students access STEM education and build pathways to environmental science careers.

How to Get Your Spring Garden Ready for Earth Month

Spring is in the air! Grasses are growing and flowers are blooming, and whether you’re new to the gardening...

12 Environmental Education Podcasts for Earth Day

We've curated a list of thought-provoking, informative, and entertaining environmental podcasts, just in time...

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Student and educator outdoors looking at plants

Water, Wasps, and Wonder: How Environmental Education Changed One Student’s Life

What started as a weekend trip to monitor invasive species became a turning point for one high schooler, showing how outdoor learning can spark purpose

A young woman sits on a stump in a wooded area. She is holding a pad of paper and a pencil and is staring pensively into the distance.

Revisiting Teaneck Creek: Lessons Learned for Lasting Collaboration in Greening STEM

Lessons learned from a collaborative Greening STEM partnership between Teaneck Creek Conservancy, New Jersey middle schools, and NEEF.

Success Story

Youth are learning that they can go away to pursue STEM education and come back and help manage these lands that their people have historically lived on.

riparian planting of native plants in Chickasaw Park

How Olmsted Parks Conservancy Protects Biodiversity by Tackling Invasive Species

NEEF grantee Olmsted Parks Conservancy is installing a pollinator meadow in Chickasaw Park to improve biodiversity and protect against invasive plant species in

Students from Quad Cities Iowa plant native trees during a Greening STEM project in prairie

Quad Cities Students Capture Creativity Through Greening STEM Project

What role do the arts play in STEM learning? Thanks to a partnership between NEEF and Arconic Foundation, students in Iowa’s Quad Cities region got to put these

Student winners of the Samsung Climate Superstars Challenge!

Michigan Middle School Science Class Wins Environmental Education Challenge

Last month, the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) partnered with Samsung and the EPA’s ENERGY STAR® program to present the 2019 Climate

Student showing a science project about air quality during wildfires

Local Wildfire Helps Teach Students About Science and Ecology

Teens in Durango, Colorado, discuss hydrophobic soil with the ease that they discuss reality TV or Minecraft thanks to teachers who used a major wildfire to

Philadelphia Watershed by Bike Program, photo courtesy of Greater Philadelphia YMCA

The YMCA Keeps the Learning Rolling in Summer

Though the summer slide sounds like an exciting new piece of equipment at the local park, it really describes the decline in students' achievement scores over

Success Story

I felt very honored to be a part of this program. The whole reason I became a conservation biologist was to make a difference.

Success Story

This is the golden age where you start to look at your community heroes, and you think about ‘what do I want to be later?'