Education

State Farm® Service-Learning Champion Award Applications are now available!

State Farm supports service-learning as a teaching method that enhances the academic achievement of students while engaging in service to the community. Teachers and parents are usually the primary individuals guiding a young person’s education in public schools. Other adults often play a key role in broadening a youth’s formal education through community service-learning activities.

State Farm created the Service-Learning Champion Award to acknowledge this non-traditional advocate of service-learning.

The State Farm Service-Learning Champion Award recognizes a business leader, community member or public official who has a passion for engaging youth in service-learning. Nominations for this annual award will be accepted beginning Sept. 1, 2010 and will close Nov. 1, 2010, and are based on the following criteria:

Criteria for nominations:

• The nominee must be a strong supporter of school-based service-learning as shown by their words, actions and ability to engage youth.
• The nominee must be an adult community member, business leader or public official from outside the traditional service-learning ranks (cannot be a classroom teacher, service-learning practitioner, or someone whose job is service-learning).
• The nominee has added significant value to the success of a youth-led service-learning project that addressed a community need(s).
• Nominee must be a resident of the United States (one of the 50 states or the District of Columbia) or Canada (provinces of Alberta, New Brunswick, or Ontario.)

Nominate your service-learning champion today!