Henry Meigs Youth Award For Environmental Leadership

The Meigs Youth Leadership Award honors youth who demonstrate environmental leadership within their communities, showing the potential to be environmental leaders and to leave a meaningful impact. This award typically celebrates a specific project a youth leader or group has worked on, but may also honor their work overall.

Read about past Henry Meigs Scholarship Award Recipients.

Henry Meigs Youth Award 2023
Open to Lankenau High School, Saul High School,
and Roxborough High School students

The Schuylkill Center invited students at Lankenau High School, Walter B. Saul High School, and Roxborough High School to submit a creative response to the word prompt "Adapting". Submissions could be drawings, paintings, sculpture, creative essays, photography, printmaking, poetry, songs/raps, short stories, zines, short videos, mixed-media, and more.

Our first-place winner, with a $500 prize, is Harmoni Robinson, a student at Walter B. Saul High School. Read Harmoni's winning submission, a short story called "The Little Mushroom".

Our second-place winner, with a $300 prize, is Chloe Cantiello, a student at Walter B. Saul High School. Watch Chloe's winning submission, a video called "Straight Outta Compost".

Our third-place winner, with a $200 prize, is Josephine Schirling, a student at Lankenau High School. Read Josephine's winning submission, a poem called "You Have Not Killed Us Yet".