Call for Submissions: The 2020-21 Shell Science Teaching Award
$10,000 Cash Prize and All-Expense Paid Trip to Attend a Future NSTA National Conference to be Awarded for Exemplary Science Teaching
ARLINGTON, Va.: The National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) and Shell Oil Company are calling for submissions for The Shell Science Teaching Award. The award recognizes one outstanding classroom teacher (grades K–12) who has had a positive impact on his or her students, school, and the community through exemplary science teaching.
The award is open to all K–12 teachers, who have a minimum of eight years of experience (not including the current school year) as a teacher of science, and must teach in a public or private school located in the United States, U.S. territories, Department of Defense schools, on in Canada.
“Shell is proud to honor distinguished science leaders with the Shell Science Teaching Award, one of the most coveted science educator awards,” said Dr. Frazier Wilson, Vice President, Shell Oil Company Foundation and Director, Workforce Development Diversity Outreach, Shell Oil Company. “These dedicated and inspiring science teachers connect science to real current events and issues that are relevant to all students and build interest and lead to the pursuit of science disciplines, and careers.”
The Shell Science Teaching Award winner will receive a $10,000 cash prize from Shell. Additionally, the winner and two finalists will each receive an all-expense-paid trip to attend a future NSTA National Conference on Science Education, where they will be honored at the Shell reception and NSTA Teachers Awards Gala.
For more information about The Shell Science Teaching Award or to apply, visit https://www.nsta.org/awards-and-recognition-program. The deadline for submissions is December 10, 2020.
