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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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