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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach

Bridging the Gap: Trust, Transparency, and Digital Tools in Environmental Communication

Olivia Young

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Spring 2025 | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Mother Earth: Feminizing The Environment And Its Implications On Natural Resource Management

Eliza Weyman

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Transportation Education: Addressing High Schoolers concerns with Seattle Transit

Hailey Roberson

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Natural Science & Restoration

Reshaping Climate Change Education for Elementary Students

Molly Rabus

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Natural Science & Restoration

Raising the Curtain to Husbandry in Aquariums

Kendra Pearson

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Spring 2025 | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

3 Barriers to Entering the Environmental Workforce and how to Remove them

Kina Painter

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Spring 2025 | Honorable Mention: Best Poster, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Natural Science & Restoration

Protecting the Puget Sound: How Green Stormwater Infrastructure Can Save our Waters

Dylon Ongwiseth

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Natural Science & Restoration

Conservation in Plain Sight: Using Educational Displays to Connect NOAA and Communities

Bridget Murphy

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Spring 2025 | Business & Sustainability, Education & Outreach

From Plastic to Pixels: Empowering Circular Action Through Website Design

Sydney Morris

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach

An Environmental Communicators Guide to Combating Climate Misinformation

Keagan McMurray

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Spring 2025 | Business & Sustainability, Education & Outreach

The Problem with Stuff: Barriers and Solutions to a Free Store

Sadie McGee

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach

Science Communication in a New Information Age: Utilizing Social Media as an Environmental Education Tool

Ben Loke

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Green Minds: Environmental Education as a Catalyst for Eco-Conscious Values

Mayah Levy

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach

Communicating Science: Navigating Controversial Topics with Reason

Sebastian Kuhn

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Spring 2025 | Best Poster, Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Oral History, TEK, and Trust: Multiple Ways of Knowing in the Climate Crisis

Hope Kuchan

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Before We Engineer The Ocean: Reimagining Community Engagement in Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

Chloe Jazvic

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Natural Science & Restoration, Policy & Regulation

Tools for Curiosity: Hands on Sustainability and the Fight Against Perceived Obsolescence

Chancellor Hoppenrath

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Spring 2025 | Honorable Mention: Best Lightning Talk, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Clean Air Action: How Community-Driven Solutions Can Tackle Environmental Injustice in Policy Implementation

Megan Hassi

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Behind the Seams: Understanding Youth Attitudes Toward Sustainable Clothing and Textile Waste

Sammy Harrison

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Spring 2025 | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Trash Talk: Zines, Waste Systems, and Environmental Justice in Seattle

Yifan Han

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach

Roots of Awareness, Branches of Action: Environmental Knowledge-Action Gaps In Preschool-Aged Students

Ruby Gumaelius

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Spring 2025 | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Natural Science & Restoration

Art as a Bridge: Connecting Relationship to Nature through Environmental Restoration & Immigration Stories

Emma Freeman

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach

Eco-Engagement: Discovering Effective Social Media Strategies for Environmental NGOs

Chelsea DeGrande

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Redlining Today: Greenspace Inequity, the Detrimental Effects of It and How the City of Seattle Confronts It

Kristina Gerard Canonizado

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Spring 2025 | Business & Sustainability, Education & Outreach

Building a Sustainable Future: Optimizing Digital Content for Environmental Education

Julia Bullock

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Spring 2025 | Arts & Humanities, Business & Sustainability, Education & Outreach

Exploring How We Can Combine Online Communities and Information Resources To Tackle the Issue of Behavior Change Concerning Sustainability

Molly Barham

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Natural Science & Restoration

From Brain Drain to Brain Gain: Preserving Institutional Knowledge in Student-Run Environmental Research Organizations

Layla Airola

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Policy & Regulation

Local Nonprofits Have Our Backs– Who Has Theirs?

Anna Crow

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach

Nature’s Crucial role in Child Development through the Lens of a Pandemic

Liam Griffith

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Autumn 2024 | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Emotion in Science: The Role of Emotion in Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Science Methods in Environmental Science

Zachary Flagler

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Are our Green Spaces Adequate? The Impact of Nature Immersion on Emotional Well-Being

Jaelyn Yanni

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges: Youth Entering Natural Resource Careers

Amy Whitham

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Bridging the Gap to Nature: Finding Solutions to Green Space Access Inequality

Chloe Stafford

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach

Citizen Science: Transforming Community Members into Environmental Educators

Annie Schlanger

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Autumn 2024 | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach

Is the Perspective Changing; Assessing the Relationship between Young Christians and the Environment

Christina Rhoades

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Natural Science & Restoration, Policy & Regulation

Bridging Divides: Holistic Approaches to Managing Salmon and Forest Ecosystems Amidst Increasing Wildfires

Nina Pursai

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Nature’s Wealth: Quantifying Benefits of Nature Exposure and Promoting Equitable Access through Policy

Chikita Nigam

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Autumn 2024 | Business & Sustainability, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

How the Collective Impact Framework can Inspire Meaningful Partnership and Rapidly Advance a Sustainable Future

Mia Nelson

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Natural Science & Restoration

Why Save Something You Don’t Care About? – The Importance Of Outdoor Environmental Education Programs For Kids

Haley Nelson

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Natural Science & Restoration, Policy & Regulation

From Coastlines to Classrooms: Marine Mammals as a Wake-up Call for Transformative Environmental Education

Ainsleigh McKinlay

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