Awarding Excellence In The Classroom




The Teacher of the Year Award annually gives $6,000 ($3,000 for school use under the teacher's supervision for educational purposes and $3,000 for personal use by the teacher) to a K-12 teacher within the United States who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the field of geoscience education.

Your application should include material taught during the academic year ending the previous Spring or Summer semester.


REQUIREMENTS & GUIDELINES

How To Apply

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Awards are announced approximately two months after application deadline.

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Digging Deeper with Michael Pyrcz, Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, and 2019-2020 AAPG-AAPG Foundation Distinguished Lecturer.

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Sustainable Development with Kristin McLin, manager, Petroleum Geochemistry and Basin Modeling at ConocoPhillips, Houston. Hosted by Sarah Barnes and Julian Chenin.

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Digging Deeper with Scott Tinker, director of the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin, and chairman of the Switch Energy Alliance.

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Digging Deeper with Stephen Hubbard, Associate Professor, University of Calgary, and 2019-2020 AAPG-AAPG Foundation Distinguished Lecturer.

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Digging Deeper with Lee Esch, Senior Geoscience Advisor, Subsurface Geology, ExxonMobil, and 2019-2020 AAPG-AAPG Foundation Distinguished Lecturer.

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Digging Deeper with Michael Pyrcz, Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, and 2019-2020 AAPG-AAPG Foundation Distinguished Lecturer.

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Digging Deeper with Kristin Bergmann, Asstant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and 2019-2020 AAPG-AAPG Foundation Distinguished Lecturer.

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Part 2: How Conversational Self Discovery and Personal Reperception Empowers Long-Term Success on Your Terms. Career Talk with Frank Wantland, career coach and former AAPG EXPLORER columnist.

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Part 1: How Conversational Self Discovery and Personal Reperception Empowers Long-Term Success on Your Terms. Career Talk with Frank Wantland, career coach and former AAPG EXPLORER columnist.

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IMAGE 2021 | Denver, Colorado and Online

Summary

Sabrina receives AAPG Foundation's Teacher of the Year Award at the IMAGE event on September 27, 2021.

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