Each year Audubon Society of Northern Virginia offers one classroom teacher, specialist or school administrator a scholarship to “Sharing Nature: An Educator’s Week” at Hog Island Audubon Camp, in coastal Maine. The scholarship covers tuition, room, board, and transportation. Hog Island Audubon Camp has offered environmental education programs for adults, teens, families, and conservation leaders since 1936.
Application Deadline: February 28, 2024
Scholarship Annoucement: March 14, 2024
Educator’s Week: July 14-19, 2024
Criteria for Scholarship
APPLICANT MUST be a public classroom teacher, specialist, or school administrator in the ASNV chapter territory, which encompasses all of Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William and Stafford Counties (excluding Dulles Airport in Fairfax County), and portions of Fauquier, Loudoun, Rappahannock and Spotsylvania Counties. Independent cities in that area include Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, Leesburg, Manassas and Manassas Park. The maps on our website provide additional detail.
SELECTION is based on outreach involvement and potential benefit to students resulting from the applicant attending the program.
Narrative for online application (see form below)
Explain how a session at Hog Island Audubon Camp will benefit you and your school. Include your ideas on how you might fulfill scholarship post-camp requirement number 2, below, and how that program could be sustained beyond one year.
Scholarship Post-Camp Requirements
Scholarship recipients are expected to write a brief account, no more than three paragraphs, about their Hog Island experience for inclusion in a Fall 2024 ASNV newsletter. Photos from camp are welcomed but not required.
Develop a new (or enhance an existing) conservation-themed program for students based on your Hog Island experience. Programs should be completed within the school year following camp and include an outdoor learning component. Include ideas on how the program could be sustained beyond one year. ASNV is willing to assist with programs.
Complete a Final Report (form will be provided) and send it to ASNV by July 1, 2025.
Letters of Recommendation
Please submit two letters of recommendation. One must be from your school’s principal. Send the letters of recommendation by email to youtheducation@audubonva.org, or by the post to:
Audubon Society Northern Virginia
Attn: Youth Education
11100 Wildlife Center Drive, Suite 100
Reston, VA 20190
Due Date
ASNV must receive your application and letters of recommendation no later than February 28, 2024, for you to be eligible for ASNV’s Hog Island scholarship.