The awards banquet on Saturday night is the workshop’s culminating event, where attendees come together to honor an outstanding professional interpreter with the prestigious NAI Fellow award. The evening features great food, dancing, and music. This is an event you won’t want to miss.
There is a fee to attend this event.
Did your site create an innovative interpretive curriculum, ingenious wayside exhibit, intriguing site publication, or an excellent interpretive panel in 2009? The 2010 Interpretive Media Awards celebrate the best of 2009 interpretive media.
Be sure to give it the applause it deserves (especially since it can’t speak for itself, metaphorically speaking) and submit it to the Media Awards Competition. The deadline for submissions is at the end of May.
Click here for submission information and a list of recent award recipients.
The Interpretive Media Awards Competition is brought to you by the National Association for Interpretation and its Interpretive Media Section to promote excellence in the delivery of natural, cultural, and historical nonpersonal interpretive services. Through the exchange of ideas we increase the level of excellence in our profession.
The awards are given out throughout the workshop.
NAI recognizes outstanding achievements and showcases the successes of NAI members and others working to advance the profession of interpretation. As a member of NAI, you are exposed to outstanding and inspiring programs and professionals.
Please nominate someone you know and respect. The deadline for nominations is at the end of May.
Click here for nomination information and a list of past award recipients.
Awards presented throughout the workshop include the NAI Fellow, Master Interpretive Manager, Master Front-Line Interpreter, Outstanding New Interpreter, Outstanding Senior/Retired Interpreter, and Outstanding Interpretive Volunteer.
Join the federal agencies and NAI in recognizing the year’s top interpreters. Agency leaders will make presentations to the national award recipients from their respective agencies. Awards presented include the Hiram M. Chittenden Award (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers), the Excellence in Interpretation and Environmental Education Award (Bureau of Land Management), the Sense of Wonder Award (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service), Gifford Pinchot Excellence in Interpretation and Conservation Education Award (USDA Forest Service), the Freeman Tilden Award (National Park Service), and NAI’s Master Front-Line Interpreter and Master Interpretive Manager awards.
