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Te Puiaki Pūtaiao Matua a Te Pirimia Science Prize
This Prize is worth $500,000. This prize is for a transformative scientific1 advance, which has had a significant economic, health, social, political, cultural and/or environmental impact on New Zealand, or internationally. It will be awarded to a team or an individual instrumental in creating the impact. Read More
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Te Puiaki Kaipūtaiao Maea MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist
This Prize is worth $200,000. This Prize will be awarded to an outstanding emerging scientist who has had their PhD or an equivalent qualification conferred within the past eight years. Read More
2023 WINNER OF TE PUIAKI KAIWHAKAAKO PŪTAIAO THE SCIENCE TEACHER PRIZE
Madeleine Collins, from Green Bay High School, Auckland has been announced as the 2023 winner of the Prime Minister’s Science Teacher Prize. Madeleine Collins aims to create an engaging and culturally sustaining learning environment in every lesson she teaches. Madeleine believes that science education should be exciting, joyful and … Read More
“Volcano Dad” wins Prime Minister’s Science Communication Prize
MEDIA RELEASE: 2023 TE PUIAKI WHAKAPĀ PŪTAIAO SCIENCE COMMUNICATION PRIZE 2023 Prime Minister’s Science Communication Prize winner Professor Ben Kennedy says he has a responsibility to teach the wonder and the risks of volcanoes to people young and old. A volcanologist, Ben is a Professor at the University of … Read More
2023 WINNER OF TE PUIAKI KAIPŪTAIAO ĀNAMATA THE FUTURE SCIENTIST PRIZE
SUNNY PERRY A YEAR 13 STUDENT AT KERIKERI HIGH SCHOOL, NORTHLAND HAS WON THE PRIME MINISTER’S TE PUIAKI KAIPŪTAIAO ĀNAMATA FUTURE SCIENTIST PRIZE FOR HER RESEARCH IN SOILS WHICH ARE RICH IN SULPHURIC ACID. Read media release about Sunny’s prize. Summary Sunny Perry became interested in … Read More
Te Puiaki Kaipūtaiao Ānamata Future Scientist
This prize is worth $50,000. The Prize will be awarded to either a Year 12 or Year 13 student who has undertaken an outstanding science, technology, mathematics or engineering project. Read More
Winning science teacher prioritises making all her students feel valued and engaged
MEDIA RELEASE: 2023 TE PUIAKI KAIWHAKAAKO PŪTAIAO SCIENCE TEACHER PRIZE Making sure each student feels valued, and engaging their natural curiosity so they want to learn the science behind their observations and interests, are the teaching philosophies that guide this year’s winner of the Prime Minister’s Science Teacher Prize. Read More
Prime Minister’s science prizes recognise work in cancer genetics, psychology of music, communication of volcanic risk, student engagement, and soil science
An innovative partnership that led to discovery of the gene causing inherited stomach cancer, a scientist uncovering the psychological underpinnings of music, and a volcanologist communicating both the wonder and risks of volcanoes have been recognised in the latest Prime Minister’s Science Prizes. A science teacher who values each student … Read More
2023 WINNER OF TE PUIAKI PŪTAIAO MATUA A TE PIRIMIA THE SCIENCE PRIZE
The Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer team led by Professor Parry Guilford FRSNZ, University of Otago in conjunction with Kimihauora Health & Research Clinic, Tauranga has won the 2023 Prime Minister’s Science Prize for their research into hereditary diffuse gastric cancer. Read media release about this prize. A … Read More