Program News
2026 Student Showcase: Celebrating the Educators Behind the Climate Innovation Challenge
As we bring this year’s CAVU Student Showcase to a close, we want to wrap things up by recognizing a group of people without whom…
2026 Student Showcase: Most Impactful and CIC Founder’s Award
We’re nearing the end of this year’s CAVU Student Showcase with our biggest awards remaining: The Most Impactful Award and the Climate Innovation Challenge Founder’s…
2026 Student Showcase: Most Outstanding Entry Awards and Most Creative & Engaging
Many of the critical problems climate change presents communities around the world cannot be solved through datasets and formulas alone. That’s why both of these…
2026 Student Showcase: Best Storytelling and Most Practical & Effective Concept
Across this year’s CAVU Student Showcase, students didn’t just learn about climate change—they told stories, built solutions, and showed what’s possible when young people are…
Opening the 2026 CAVU Student Showcase with our Honorable Mentions!
The future is already here. It’s time to meet it. What if the most promising climate solutions in the world weren’t coming from boardrooms… but…
From Problem to Prototype: How CIC Inspires Innovation at Zebar School
In Ahmedabad, India, students at Zebar School for Children aren’t just learning about climate change, they’re engineering solutions. For the past three years, educator Ayushe…
A Day in the Life of a CAVU Educator: Inside a Classroom Full of Climate Innovators
By the time CAVU Program and Operations Director Rebecca VanArnam arrived at Fieldstone Middle School in New Jersey on Friday, December 19, the energy was…
November Classroom Dispatch
Read about educator, Morgan Baker’s transformation in her classroom using the Climate Innovation Challenge!
October Classroom Dispatch
Year-Round Classroom Garden Feeds Learners By Mercy Wambui Visiting classrooms remains the best part of my job and working directly with students and educators is…
Smithsonian Exhibit Press Release
And just like that, we’re getting to work on climate!
In an exciting stroke of the pen, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced this week that New Mexico will join the U.S. Climate Alliance, adding New…
Double Drilling gets a Double Take!
We are thrilled to report that the newly appointed members of New Mexico’s Oil Conservation Commission have voted to suspend and rehear their recent order…