Harbor Freight to award $1 million to outstanding high school skilled trades teachers, programs

Calabasas, Calif.-based Harbor Freight Tools for Schools has announced it will award more than $1 million in cash prizes to outstanding public high school skilled trades teachers and programs, doubling the amount awarded for last year’s Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence.

The 2018 prize will honor 18 public high school skilled trades teachers and their programs with $1 million in cash awards. Three first-place winners will each receive $100,000, with $70,000 going to the high school skilled trades program and $30,000 to the individual skilled trades teacher or teacher team behind the winning program. The 15 second-place winners will each be awarded $50,000, with $35,000 going to the high school program and $15,000 to the teacher/team.

The prize recognizes outstanding skilled trades instruction and gives teacher applicants access to ideas and practices through a network of like-minded educators. The digital application for the prize solicits creative responses to a series of online expert-led video learning modules designed to help skilled trades teachers be more effective in the classroom.

For more information and to register, visit Your text to link...hftforschoolsprize.org/. Applications open May 16 and are due July 6, 2018. The applicants with the top 50 scores will be announced as semifinalists on Aug. 15, and the first- and second-place winners will be announced on Nov. 15. Each round of winners will be selected by separate panels of judges.