The Cornhusker Council STEM advancement committee is aware of these changes and are working together to see how this will affect Scouts.  If your Scout is currently working on a STEM award, be sure to have them complete it before June 1, 2025. More information will come to you, as we get clarification. 

 Information from the National Office: In 2023 the decision was made to sunset the STEM Nova Awards program allowing local councils to continue to support the award as an option at their own cost. One of the conditions for continuing the STEM Nova Awards was that councils could not change the requirements. We are pleased to inform you that effective June 1, 2025, councils will have the ability to make the STEM Nova Award and Super NOVA awards a council award in which the council creates the requirements. This allows your council to continue utilizing this award to best meet the desired outcomes of your local council. If your council chooses to continue utilizing this award, you will continue to purchase patches and other recognition items through licensed vendors. You may also make any custom adjustments to the design of the recognition items including branding changes for Scouting America. With this change, all STEM Nova and Super NOVA awards and content will be removed from Scouting.org on June 1, 2025. This will give councils time to copy any materials from the site to their own site. STEM Nova and Super NOVA awards will not be available in ScoutBook and STEM Nova and Super NOVA counselor positions are no longer registered positions in Scouting America. The sunsetting of STEM Nova awards was due to low participation nationally, about 1.5% of Scouts earned a STEM Nova award, however, we understand that some councils had and we hope continue to have success. Scouting America values STEM programming and invested in the development of new Cub Scout Adventures to expose a greater number of Cub Scouts to STEM topics. We are pleased to share with you that since the launch of these new STEM Adventures in Cub Scouting, 69,948 youth have earned a STEM-based Adventure, which is almost 10 times the exposure to STEM topics to Cub Scouts so far for this program year.