NSHSS for Good Earth Sustainability
Claes Nobel: "Celebrate Earth Day every day."
Claes Nobel, of the Nobel Prize family and Co-founder of NSHSS, was a passionate advocate for environmental causes. In fact, his favorite greeting was “Good Earth to you!" He encouraged all of us to treat every day as if it were Earth Day by taking action and doing our part to preserve, protect, and tend to this wonderful planet we call home. Watch the video for Mr. Nobel's special message.
Supporting your passion for climate action and sustainability
We've gathered an array of opportunities and resources designed to support the creation of a better Earth.
Elevate your passion for climate action and environmental stewardship with the following scholarships:
- NSHSS Foundation Earth Day Awards: check out scholarship winners who are creating sustainable initiatives in their communities.
We also have a number of other scholarships that may apply to your passions.
NSHSS hosted a virtual panel with three NSHSS scholarship winners that was moderated by Captain Planet! Each student panelist shared their creative solutions to the environmental issues in their communities and the globe!
Earth Day Is Every Day Virtual Panel
NSHSS also hosted a virtual screening of the documentary film “I Am Greta” followed by an intergenerational conversation between climate activists, scholars, and educators. Click the link to read about the panelists and view the event recording!
Joshua Lou: NSHSS Innovation in Technology Scholarship Recipient
- Joshua is the founder of Teens Against E-waste, a nonprofit organization aimed to raise public awareness about the escalating problem of electronic waste (e.g., laptops, TVs, phones) in our technology-dependent world. He initiated the One Million Batteries (1MB) global recycling campaign, in particular, to make a stance that through our united effort, we can take the proper action needed to fight e-waste. To fuse his passion for computer science with environmental efforts, he created a phone-reselling mobile app called $ellPhone that has been on display in the U.S. Capitol as a winner of the Congressional App Challenge.
Christopher Carnes: NSHSS James W. Lewis High School Global Leader Scholarship Recipient
- "I am on the board of directors of a local community non-profit, Students4H2O, which is composed of members K-12 educating the community about how to #ThinkGlobally,ActLocally. Through this organization, I have helped lead the way with several initiatives in my community and globally with events such as Waterfest, the largest water conservation event on the East Coast, the formation of a Global Goal video competition called GoalFest, and leading the fundraising to build a well at Majork Dungar Primary School through Water For South Sudan"
Ryland Adzich: NSHSS Foundation Earth Day Award Recipient
- Ryland Adzich is a junior at the King's Academy in Sunnyvale, California. She founded The Creative Destination, leveraging her passion for sustainability and her mission to promote literacy. The Creative Destination focuses on creating small literacy spaces in organizations and institutions in underserved communities. By establishing a Creative Destination space, Ryland always seeks volunteers to uplift their communities.
Learn more about our outstanding scholarship winners and their efforts to preserve our beautiful planet by clicking here.
United Planet also has many blogs, resources, and opportunities for students wishing to make a positive environmental impact on the planet!
The Intern Group connects young, ambitious candidates to unique global internships designed to help them realize their potential prepare them for the professional world.
Ladder Internships has virtual internship opportunities ranging in industries such as nonprofit and environmental science,
These sustainability initiatives earned a $10,000 grant
Sasha Ovalle
Sasha's passion for innovation began at the age of 10 during her first science and innovation fair. Thinking of her uncle, who was born with spina bifida, she decided to redesign the unwieldy and outdated crutches that he was forced to use every day. While her invention fell short of changing her uncle’s life, she obtained a provisional patent for it and began her journey as a young entrepreneur.
Sasha has continued her entrepreneurial growth as a member of her high school’s Entrepreneurialism and Global Leadership (EGL) Concentration where she was named EGL Student of the Year in 2022 and EGL Student Ambassador in 2023. Sasha's most recent project is Shower Saver, the world's first and only voice-controlled, Amazon Alexa-enabled shower head, an eco-friendly product with the potential to reduce national water consumption by a billion gallons a year. In addition to being awarded $10,000 in grant funding as an NSHSS Be More Fund national award winner, Shower Saver was selected as a finalist in the 2023 YES! Accelerator Program, an international entrepreneurial contest sponsored by BizWorld.org, the 2023 Paradigm Challenge, an international, STEM-based innovation competition sponsored by Project Paradigm, and the 2023 Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition, a global entrepreneurship competition focused on sustainability and sponsored by UNESCO, the GOI Peace Foundation, and Stiftung Entrepreneurship.
Chase Hartman
Chase Hartman, 17, co-founded a non-profit called Eco Brothers and an award-winning book distribution project called “read.repeat.” For the past seven years, he’s focused on improving literacy rates, promoting inclusion, and helping the environment. Chase has collected and distributed more than 210,000 books and impacted the lives of more than 55,000 students in Hillsborough County, Florida. Chase champions the need for more books-with-diversity and dual language books in local Title-1 schools and has worked to raise more than $115,000 to support this cause and various environmental projects.
Chase is an Eagle Scout and Student Body President at Sickles High School in Tampa. He’s honored to receive the Congressional Award’s Silver Medal, and the NSHSS Be More Award. He serves on the Points of Light Youth Council, promoting volunteerism to young people nationwide.
Jiya Gupta
Jiya Gupta is a high school senior in California. As an aspiring tech entrepreneur, Jiya founded Farmoid, a non-profit dedicated to increasing yield and decreasing water wastage in small farms using a system of sensors and a mobile app. With seed funding from NSHSS, she can't wait to take her business to the next step and aid small farmers worldwide!