Future Architects Initiative
AIA Pennsylvania NAAB Graduate Candidate Achievement Award
Each year in collaboration with faculty of each of Pennsylvania’s eight NAAB architectural programs a single graduating student is selected to receive the AIA Pennsylvania [new name - Futures / Student Achievement / ? re-rewrite the following statement to be more direct tag line] Award “recognizing the exceptional scholastic achievement and future promise of a graduating Architectural Design student…. The student should have proven to be proficient in both academics and design, and ready to take on the challenges and responsibilities of the work environment in an architecture firm.”
The AIA Pennsylvania NAAB Senior Student Achievement Scholarship is a single scholarship available to one of these eight qualifying graduates to pursue post-graduate studies. Selection is made through application and judging by the AIA Pennsylvania Special Awards Selection Committee.
AIA Pennsylvania Community College Student Achievement Award
Each year in collaboration with faculty of each of Pennsylvania’s eight NAAB architectural programs a single graduating student is selected to receive the AIA Pennsylvania [new name - Futures / Student Achievement / ? re-rewrite the following statement to be more direct tag line] Award “recognizing the exceptional scholastic achievement and future promise of a graduating Architectural Design student…. The student should have proven to be proficient in both academics and design, and ready to take on the challenges and responsibilities of the work environment in an architecture firm.”
AIA Pennsylvania Community ………
Each year in collaboration with faculty of each of Pennsylvania’s eight NAAB architectural programs a single graduating student is selected to receive the AIA Pennsylvania [new name - Futures / Student Achievement / ? re-rewrite the following statement to be more direct tag line] Award “recognizing the exceptional scholastic achievement and future promise of a graduating Architectural Design student…. The student should have proven to be proficient in both academics and design, and ready to take on the challenges and responsibilities of the work environment in an architecture firm.”
The AIA Pennsylvania NAAB Senior Student Achievement Scholarship is a single scholarship available to one of these eight qualifying graduates to pursue post-graduate studies. Selection is made through application and judging by the AIA Pennsylvania Special Awards Selection Committee.
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Every great structure starts with a foundation, and every great architect starts as a kid who couldn't stop asking, how? How do I make my Lego tower stronger? How is that bridge floating in the air? The AIA Pennsylvania Foundation is in the business of catching that curiosity early — meeting kids right where their imaginations already live and giving it a framework to grow. Through K–12 outreach, Architecture Week programming, and career fairs across the Commonwealth, we're putting the built environment directly into the hands of the next generation, one classroom at a time.
This isn't by holding lectures about blueprints and building codes. It's blocks being rearranged until the structure finally balances. It's a floor plan sketched on graph paper for the first time. It's a practicing architect showing up to a career fair — not with a stack of pamphlets, but with real stories about how a rough sketch becomes a finished façade. We want kids to see architecture not as some distant, abstract profession, but as a hands-on blend of art and engineering that's shaping the world they already walk through every day, from their school hallways to their neighborhood library.
AIA PA knows that a single classroom visit, a single "what if" moment at a career fair, can scale up into a career, a portfolio, a skyline. The child who's fascinated by symmetry today could be the architect reimagining Pennsylvania's next civic landmark tomorrow. Our K–12 outreach is where that elevation begins — a genuine investment in the minds who will decide how we build, live, and gather for generations to come.
Program in support of introductory design programming in K-12 public school and NAAB AIAS programs throughout Pennsylvania particularly focused on outreach to aspiring next generation architects in disadvantaged and underserved communities. Underserved Youth. Part of the PAFF service pillar.
