REGISTRATION FOR THE 2025 NSTA ANNUAL MEETING AND CONVENTION WILL OPEN IN APRIL!
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As has been tradition, award recipients will be celebrated at the annual Awards and Installation Dinner– sponsored by Thomas Built Buses being held on Tuesday, July 22. Each year, the National School Transportation Association (NSTA) honors individuals who have made noteworthy contributions to the organization and student transportation, and we ask you to take a moment and help make our celebration this summer the best one yet. Submit your nomination today! This year's hard deadline for all nominations to be received by NSTA is set for Wednesday, April 30, 2025.

Click in the Red Button #1 to check Awards Descriptions, select an appropriate award for your nominee, and complete your nomination form by clicking in the Red Button #2 (Nomination Form). It’s that easy.

1. NSTA Awards Descriptions 2. NSTA Awards Nomination Form

2025 Innovator of the Year Award

The Innovator of the Year Award, presented by School Transportation News and the National School Transportation Association, recognizes an individual who has made significant, tangible contributions to the student transportation industry within the past year as an employee of a school bus contractor company. Innovations, considered under the Award, may include technology, operations, safety, and green energy.

Click the Red Button to nominate and tell us about an exceptional school bus contractor employee in the pupil transportation industry.

The winner will appear in the July 2025 issue of
School Transportation News.

To be eligible, the nominee must represent a private school bus contractor.

Nominations will be accepted until Wednesday, April 30, 2025.

Innovator Award Nomination Form