The Earth Prize

The Earth Prize is an environmental sustainability prize for secondary education students awarded by The Earth Foundation every year. The Earth Prize was first launched on September 1, 2021, and first awarded on March 25, 2022. The Winner receives USD 50,000, to be shared between the team members and their school or educational program. Three Runner-up teams are rewarded with USD 12,500 each for their schools or educational programs. The competition also recognizes one educator and three mentors participating in the initiative. The Earth Prize is presented by the Swiss nonprofit organization The Earth Foundation, founded by Peter McGarry and directed by Angela McCarthy, who serves as CEO.

2023 Award Winners and Finalists
Team Delavo, a group of four teenage girls from Diyarbakır Bahçeşehir College Science and Technology High School in Turkey secured the top position as winners of the second edition of The Earth Prize on April 25th, 2023 for their “e-Caundry” invention, a filtration device that can be installed in washing machines to recycle approximately 8,200 liters of wastewater per year.

2022 Award Winners and Finalists
In the 2022 edition of The Earth Prize, ten teams of teenage students from Armenia, Great Britain, Vietnam, Switzerland, Taiwan, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Jamaica, and Kenya advanced to the final phase of the competition, including students from Eton College (Great Britain).

The Earth Prize 2022 Awards Ceremony took place virtually on March 25, 2022. Team Adorbsies, a team of three teenage girls from Vietnam who proposed the idea for a biodegradable sanitary pad made out of dragon fruit waste, was announced as the first-ever winner of the competition.