
Grants & Awards
GUAVA Innovation Awards & GUAVA Travel Grant
✈️ GUAVA Travel Grant
The GUAVA Travel Grant supports GUAVA members who are presenting at the Biannual GUAVA Conference/Workshop. This competitive grant helps offset travel costs for educators sharing their work in Vietnamese language education. Applicants must be current GUAVA members with an accepted presentation at the conference/workshop. Grant recipients are selected based on the quality, relevance, and potential impact of their proposed presentation.
Details on application deadlines and eligibility are shared with the biannual conference announcement.
🏆 GUAVA Innovation Awards
The GUAVA Innovation Awards, launched by the GUAVA Board in 2024–2025, recognize outstanding and transformative contributions to Vietnamese language education. Each spring, GUAVA invites members to submit innovative projects implemented within the past two academic years—across online, hybrid, or in-person settings. Submissions are evaluated for their originality, impact, and scalability. Winners are celebrated at the GUAVA Innovation Awards Showcase and featured on GUAVA’s website and blog, contributing to a growing archive of inspiring practices for the teaching community.
🏆 2024–2025 Award Recipients
The GUAVA Board would like to express our great thanks to the Selection Committee: Quang Van (Yale University), Thuy Tranviet (Cornell University), Chung Nguyen (Columbia University) for their hard work.
🎖 Award Winners
Project Title | Recipient | Institution | Category |
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Interactive Vietnamese Learning with H5P | Hoan Nguyen | UC San Diego | Educational Technology |
Connected Vietnamese: A Collaborative Cross-Institutional Project | An Sakach | Arizona State University | Community Engagement |
Vietnamese Vocabulary Video Contest | Trang Tran | Brown University | Instructional Innovation |
🌟 Honorable Mentions
Project Title | Recipient(s) | Institution |
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Vietnamese Vibes Textbook Project | Drs. Trang Phan & Lan Chu | Ca’ Foscari University of Venice |
Silver Table – Vietnamese Podcast | ThuýAnh Nguyen | University of Michigan |