When: October 9–10, 2025
Where: Penn State University Park and Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center
Note: At this time, we are not opening the 2025–2026 summit to new applicants. The event will include returning participants from last year’s cohort.
This event is made possible through a grant funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
The K-12 Sustainability Summit, hosted by the Readiness Institute and Penn State Sustainability, is a two-day event that brings together the K-12 and Penn State communities to collaborate on new pathways to increase sustainability efforts in the K-12 space. Attendees will engage in design thinking workshops to surface the sustainability-based needs of individual schools and how partnerships with Penn State can support the unique needs of K-12 school systems.
The summit has capacity for 20–24 K–12 school systems to include two representatives per system. The ideal attendees include education leaders of all roles, especially those with decision-making capabilities and those who teach environmental literacy and sustainability in their classrooms. First priority will be given to school systems who have a previous interest in and commitment to sustainability at the highest levels.