Empowering Young Innovators
The Graitec Sustainability Scholarship Program empowers young innovators attending a high school in the US.
Students with the most compelling essays on innovative and sustainable solutions can win scholarships ranging from $500 to $1,500 based on their performance.
Award
UNITED STATES: Scholars are selected based on achievement. Award amounts range from $500 to $1,500, based on whether they secure the first, second, or third position.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
- Currently enrolled high school/home-schooled students attending school in one of the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or select DoD schools who will graduate high school during the 2025-2026 or 2026-2027 academic school year.
- Expecting to receive high school diploma during current academic year.
- Planning to pursue a degree at an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution.
- Able to verify a minimum overall B/3.0 GPA in high school coursework.
Suggested Areas of Focus
We are sharing several prompts to choose from and inspire you, but don’t limit your thinking to only these ideas.
- The AEC industry needs more bright minds to develop buildings of the future.
Where is the greatest need for additional workers? Is it on construction sites, in engineering and design firms, or in facility management? What advantages or aspects of these jobs would interest students to pursue these careers? How would YOU get your friends interested in learning more about careers in Sustainable Construction? - While you are not allowed to use generative AI to write your entry, think about how tomorrow’s AI could help accelerate sustainable design and construction. Can agentic bots speed design and office productivity? How might autonomous robots use AI to analyze job sites for safety hazards or construction flaws before they become problems?
- Schools: What’s the environmental impact of your high school? Or all the facilities in your entire school district. How can your school lower its/their impact? Water, waste, and energy reduction? Solar panels on the roof?
- There’s probably a lot of new commercial construction in your area. How does it impact your community and can it be done differently to reduce negative impacts? What environmental changes are happening? Removing the natural environment, replacing fields and trees with hardscapes like buildings and paved areas that don’t absorb rainwater?
- Come up with your own idea! Just be sure you follow the 4 required sections and focus on a problem or opportunity within Architecture, Design, Engineering, Construction, or Facility Management and how advances in sustainability measures could solve it.