Monday, December 12, 2016

SCA Corps Member's Proposal Receives Top Prize at MIT's Climate Colab


A computer science graduate from Brown University, Steven Prusky currently manages two financial companies, Windsor Securities and MFIP, Inc., in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. In addition to his executive duties, Steven Prusky finds time to support worthy causes, including the non-profit Student Conservation Association (SCA).

Since its inception in 1957, SCA remains committed to its mission of inspiring new generations of conservation leaders. In order to do so, the organization finds opportunities to engage youth in providing hands-on opportunities to serve the environment.

Through the years, SCA has had numerous successes in grooming environmental leaders. One of the most recent examples is Sarah Lipuma, who earned the Judges' Choice Award at the recently concluded Climate CoLab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lipuma received the award after presenting her proposal for the Hudson River Sustainable Shorelines Project. The project aims to promote the use of nature-based remedies in mitigating the damaging effects of climate change to waterfronts. The proposal garnered the attention of the judges, who evaluated more than 500 submissions.

Sarah Lipuma has been a member of the SCA Corps and currently serves as an estuary stewardship educator with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.