IALD Education Trust

• Provides scholarships directly to students for the purpose of promoting the study of lighting design. Scholarships awarded in the last three years totaled $23,000, plus the Trust funded the attendance of seven winners at LIGHTFAIR International, where the scholarships are presented.  To view past winners, click this link.

• Conducts seminars to educate professional lighting designers, students of lighting design, property owners, and persons in related fields interested in lighting design. In 1999 and 2001, the Trust co-sponsored the Teachers of Lighting Workshop with the IESNA, providing $27,500 in funding.

• Conducts studies and research to justify and define the benefits of quality lighting, such as research regarding the metrics of quality. 

• Produces and provides teaching tools for the purpose of educating professional lighting designers, students, educators, and persons in related fields.

• Currently the Trust is in the process of distributing kits in optics and lamp color to a test program of 20 schools, and a CD of award winners that features downloadable lighting drawings and details.  Several years ago, light meters were distributed to over 100 schools across the country.

For more information, review the IALD Education Trust Fund brochure.