Te Puiaki Kaiwhakaako Pūtaiao | The Prime Minister’s Science Teacher Prize

The Prime Minister's Science Teacher Prize has opened again for 2025!

This award is the highest-level teacher award in Aotearoa New Zealand. The award includes a prize of $50,000 for the teacher, and an additional $100,000 to the recipient's school.

Dr. Aidan Kiely, from Aorere College in Tamaki Makaurau was announced as the winner of the Prime Minister's Science Teacher Prize for 2024, awarded in 2025. Source: PM Science Prizes

Applicants must be a registered teacher who has been teaching science, mathematics, technology, pūtaiao, hangarau or pāngarau learning areas of the New Zealand curriculum to school-age children in a primary, intermediate or secondary New Zealand registered school or kura kaupapa.

Last year's prize winner was Dr. Aidan Kiely from Aorere College. Former prize winners include Madeleine Collins from Green Bay High School, Bianca Woyak from Burnside Primary School and Dr. Angela Sharples from Rotorua Boys' High.

This year, the 2025 expert selection panel for the PM Science Teacher prize includes:

• Dr Cathy Buntting (Chair), STEM Education, University of Waikato; Science Learning Hub

• Prof Karyn Paringatai, University of Otago

• Lian Soh, Pāpāmoa College

• Mark Hooper,  Christ’s College

• Sarah Washbrooke,  ByteEd Technology Education

• Prof Georgina Tuari Stewart, AUT

Additional PM Science Prize categories include:

• Te Puiaki Pūtaiao Matua a Te Pirimia - The Prime Minister’s Science Prize

• Te Puiaki Kaipūtaiao Maea - The Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize

• Te Puiaki Whakapā Pūtaiao - The Prime Minister’s Science Communication Prize

• Te Puiaki Kaipūtaiao Ānamata - The Prime Minister’s Future Scientist Prize

Learn More | Apply Here

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