The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is launching the HBCU Clean Energy Education Prize to help develop advanced clean energy programming opportunities and connections for HBCUs across the United States.
Donor Name: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territories: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Prize
Deadline: 07/27/2023
Size of the Grant: $40,000
Details:
The prize focuses on three primary goals:
- Inspire K-12 and community college students to engage with and learn about clean energy subjects through HBCU-hosted educational programs.
- Initiate partnerships between HBCUs and other universities with proven clean energy focused programs to build new cross-university degree and certificate programs.
- Integrate and build programming between university and industry partners to advance career opportunities for HBCU students in the clean energy space.
Inspire Track
The Inspire Track supports the development or expansion of HBCU-hosted clean energy summer or academic break programs for K-12 and community college students. These programs will help explain basic concepts of clean energy technologies and illuminate possible clean energy educational and career pathways for students.
Phases
The Inspire Track is comprised of two phases:
- Phase 1: Competitors will work to develop educational plans for clean energy summer or academic break programs. Up to 20 winners will each receive a $40,000 cash award and will be eligible to compete in Phase 2.
- Phase 2: Phase 1 winners will continue to develop program plans, further implement the programs, and provide initial metrics to showcase program impact. Up to 20 winners will each receive a $10,000 cash award.
Eligibility Criteria
The competition is open only to HBCUs, and all prize winnings must go to the HBCUs using their legal tax IDs. HBCUs are expected to build partnerships throughout the prize competition, but all prize funding awarded will go to the HBCU specifically. If an HBCU wants to split prize funding with a partner organization, it will be the sole responsibility of the HBCU to provide that funding to partners, contractors, or other participating organizations.
- Academic institutions must be based in the United States or U.S. Territories and be defined by the U.S. Department of Education as an HBCU
- DOE employees, employees of sponsoring organizations, members of their immediate families (e.g., spouses, children, siblings, or parents), and persons living in the same household as such persons, whether or not related, are ineligible to participate in the prize
- Individuals who worked at DOE (federal employees or support service contractors) within 6 months prior to the submission deadline of any contest are ineligible to participate in any prize contests in this program
- Federal entities and federal employees are ineligible to participate in any portion of the prize
- DOE national laboratory employees cannot compete in the prize
- Entities and individuals publicly banned from doing business with the U.S. government such as entities and individuals debarred, suspended, or otherwise excluded from or ineligible for participating in federal programs are ineligible to compete
- This prize competition is expected to positively impact U.S. economic competitiveness. Participation in a foreign government talent recruitment program could conflict with this objective by resulting in unauthorized transfer of scientific and technical information to foreign government entities. Therefore, individuals participating in foreign government talent recruitment programs of foreign countries of risk are ineligible to compete. Further, teams that include individuals participating in foreign government talent recruitment programs of foreign countries of risk are ineligible to compete.
For more information, visit U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
