Student Fellowships
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If a classroom can’t contain your curiosity, we’re looking for leaders and learners like you.
Each year, we’re able to award a number of fellowships to promising high school students who want to explore, study, and protect the natural world on an Earthwatch expedition. If you have a demonstrated passion for science and travel, but not the funds to pursue it, apply for one of our two all-expenses-paid student fellowship programs:
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Student Fellowship Opportunities
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Ignite
Now in its 30th year, this fellowship aims to spark curiosity and a passion for science among Los Angeles-area high school students through a two-week scientific expedition over summer break..
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Girls in Science
This fellowship empowers female-identifying teens to expand their interest in science and technology and to build confidence through hands-on environmental research alongside female experts in the field.
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SUPPORT A TEEN
These programs are possible thanks to donations from generous individuals, foundations, and corporations. Find out how you can help empower a deserving teen to take on the climate crisis and other ecological challenges through hands-on scientific discovery.
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I enjoyed the field work most of all; I felt as if I was a grad student conducting research of my own, as if the work I was doing in that moment would eventually save the world. And that's exactly what I was doing.
Alicia Moore — 2017 Ignite fellow
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