Prizes for Science and Journalism

Two announcements landed in my Inbox yesterday and are worth passing along:

1) The Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism is now accepting nominations:

# Articles must have been published for the first time between 1 July 2008 and 30 June 2009.
# Entries must state clearly the website where each article appeared and the date that each article was published.
# Consideration will be given to the articles on the following criteria: intellectual coherence; persuasiveness; wit and relevance; clarity and simplicity; wider impact (as indicated by additional information provided by entrants in the online form).
# Authors must nominate themselves, though submissions can be made by an assistant on the author’s behalf with his/her consent.
# Entries may be submitted from 11 May 2009. Entries must be received on or before 30 June 2009.

Also, Science is giving out a prize for online educational resources, and again, they’re accepting nominations:

The Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) has been established to encourage innovation and excellence in education, as well as to encourage the use of high-quality on-line resources by students, teachers, and the public. In 2009, the prize will recognize outstanding projects from all regions of the world that bring freely available online resources to bear on science education.

Winning projects should reinforce one or more of the four strands of science learning recommended by the National Academies (Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8 [2007], National Academies Press; see also Bruce Alberts, “Redefining Science Education,” Science 23 January 2009: 323, 437; http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/323/5913/437) and be consistent with the science education standards published by the National Academies (National Science Education Standards [1996], National Academies Press) and the AAAS (Benchmarks for Science Literacy; http://www.project2061.org/publications/bsl/online/index.php).

Nominations for both are due by June 30th. So get nominating.