✈️ 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.

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🏆 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.

🏆 2025–2026 Award Recipients

See Call for Submission AY 2025-2026; Selection Committee Guidelines; GUAVA-Awards-2026-Showcase-Flyer; GUAVA Award Showcase 2026 Agenda; GUAVA President’s Remarks.

The GUAVA Board would like to express our great thanks to Thuy Tranviet (Cornell University), Quang Van (Yale University), and Hanh Nguyen (University of Pennsylvania ) for serving on the GUAVA Innovation Awards 2026 Selection Committee .

🎖 Award Winners

Project Title	Recipient	Institution	Category
Podcast Production to Promote Engagement Among Advanced Vietnamese Students	Hoa Le & Quang-Nhan Nguyen [slides/notes]	Harvard University	Instructional Innovation
Gamified Vietnamese Language Learning: A Story-Based Course Design	Trang Tran [ ▶︎ ]	Brown University	Instructional Innovation

🌟 Honorable Mentions

Project Title	Recipient(s)	Institution	Category
Dialect Differences: A Sociolinguistics-Centered Peer-Teaching Project	Thu-Ha Nguyen	University of Washington	Instructional Innovation

🏆 2024–2025 Award Recipients

See GUAVA-Awards-2025-Showcase-Flyer;

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
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
Vietnamese Vibes Textbook Project	Drs. Trang Phan & Lan Chu	Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Silver Table – Vietnamese Podcast	ThuýAnh Nguyen	University of Michigan

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