Jon Manon STEAM Team
Educators Award
Presented annually by DFSME to recognize a team of teachers who have collaborated within their school to achieve outstanding accomplishments, not possible without coordinated team planning and execution. The Award recognizes team collaboration within the school; administrative support for collective, interdisciplinary activities; and unique opportunities for students.
The Award recognizes the roles of the team members and provides a cash award of $1,000 for the team. This is to support projects – and publicizes to the school, district leadership, and the state the success of the team, and how the STEAM education of their students has been improved to make them more competitive in the future Delaware STEM workforce.
For more information about the submission or nomination of a project, please contact Randy Guschl randy@dfsme.org.
The 2024 Jon Manon STEAM Team Educators Award honored the Delaware Youth Environmental Summit (YES!) in recognition of a team of teachers who collaborate across disciplines. This year’s team was composed of both teachers and students who also partner with corporations, agencies and nonprofits.
As part of the YES! Program being recognized with the Award, it garnered a $1,000 prize which will go toward expenses related to the expansion of the 2025 Summit. DFSME Executive Director Randy Guschl described Delaware YES! as “an organization of high school students from across the state who are passionate about protecting our Earth.” Carter Lunsford, the team’s 2024-2025 student co-leader, recognized “just how powerful a catalyst youth involvement is in making a difference on environmental issues. Youth involvement was instrumental in securing passage of single-use plastic bag legislation with the goal of informing and inspiring more of today’s youth to get involved. Delaware was only the fourth state in the U.S. to pass such legislation.