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Two New Awards in the 2005 Australian Museum Eureka Schools Prizes
The 2005 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, Australia’s premier and most comprehensive national science awards, will include two new awards that significantly expand the range of students eligible to enter the Eureka schools prizes.
The new $10,000 Eureka Schools Prize for Agricultural Journalism will be awarded for an 800-1,000 word newspaper article reporting on an issue relating to grain growing, farm succession or rural community development. S ponsored by the Grains Research & Development Corporation with additional support from Microsoft, this prize seeks to encourage students’ science writing and journalism skills. W ith a focus on developments in the grain industry that enhance rural community’s economic and social wellbeing, this new prize will be of particular interest to rural schools and students.
The Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney will sponsor the new $11,000 Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Schools Prize . This prize takes its lead from Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and media guru Adam Spencer, who each year enlighten thousands of Australians with their National Sleek Geeks Week Tour. The prize encourages school students with a passion for science and for communicating ideas to tell a scientific story in a short three minute video. The prize requires students to communicate a scientific concept of their choice in an accessible and entertaining way - as the Sleek Geeks like to say, "Learn without noticing".
The 2005 Eureka prizes will also see continuation of the long-running $11,000 Eureka Schools Prize for Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences. This prize is awarded to a student or team for preparation of a webpage reporting on their research into a topic dealing with earth, environmental or planetary sciences.
And to round it off, 2005 will be the second year in which the Eureka Prize for Science Teaching sponsored by Peter and Divonne Holmes à Court will award $10,000 cash to a secondary science teacher for inspiring their students to pursue curiosity-driven learning in science.
The Eureka schools prizes can be undertaken as class projects or by individual students. A representative of the top winning teams wins a trip to Sydney to be part of the gala Australian Museum Eureka Prizes award dinner in August 2005 - the largest single event in Australia celebrating outstanding science and science communication.
Each student prize carries with it a cash of $10,000 to be shared equally by the winners and their schools and Microsoft software for each winning student
Full details of the Australian Museum Eureka Schools Prizes will be available in early 2005 on the Australian Museum’s website at www.amonline.net.au/eureka or from eureka@austmus.gov.au
Entries in all four prizes will close on Friday 13 May 2005.