Entries Open For $1 Million Science Prizes Money

Entries Open For $1 Million Science Prizes Money
 
Entries open today (April 23) for the 2013 Prime Minister’s Science Prizes, which award prize money of $1 million.
 
A total of five prizes are awarded, with the aim of highlighting how science underpins innovation and helps to build a more competitive and productive economy.
 
The prizes also aim to encourage more students into science and technology based careers, with a $50,000 prize towards tertiary study costs for an outstanding secondary school student.
 
Prime Minister John Key launched the prizes five years ago. Previous winners include Victoria University of Wellington researchers and spinout company Magritek, led by the late Sir Paul Callaghan, a team from NIWA and the University of Otago researching climate change, an IRL (now Callaghan Institute of Innovation) partnership at the cutting edge of high temperature super conducting technology and food protein scientists from the Riddet Institute at Massey University.
 
The prizes are:
· The Prime Minister’s Science Prize, $500,000
To an individual or team which has made a transformative discovery or achievement in science  that has had a significant impact on New Zealand or internationally

· The Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize, $200,000
To an outstanding emerging scientist undertaking research for a PhD or within five years of the date of the award of a PhD

· The Prime Minister’s Science Teacher Prize, $150,000
To a science teacher for outstanding achievement in teaching science

· The Prime Minister’s Science Media Communication Prize, $100,000
To a practising scientist who is an effective communicator, to provide them with an opportunity to further develop their knowledge and capability in science media communication

· The Prime Minister’s Future Scientist Prize, $50,000
To a secondary school student for outstanding achievement in carrying out a practical and innovative research or technology project.
 
Entries for four of the Prime Minister’s Science Prizes open on 23 April 2013 and can be lodged up until 17 July 2013.
 
To find out more, visit:

www.pmscienceprizes.org.nz
 
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