Dear STEM Ambassadors,

The 2020 Connecting Science Public Engagement Prizes close to nominations on Monday.

We have seen some fantastic commitment and engagement activities from STEM Ambassadors this year. Please consider nominating yourself, someone else and/or a team for a prize. We appreciate that many public engagement activities had to be cancelled due to COVID-19. This will be taken into account and, where appropriate, judging will focus on the development, design and creativity of public engagement activities that were unable to take place, as well as the proactivity and innovation shown by the nominee.

It only takes two minutes to nominate yourself or someone else working at the Wellcome Genome Campus.

There are five prizes available:

Commitment to Public Engagement: celebrates individual members of staff or students who have demonstrated significant and longstanding commitment to public engagement. One winner will receive £500.

Public Engagement Innovator: recognises individual members of staff or students who have demonstrated outstanding proactivity or creativity in public engagement. One winner will receive a personal prize of £250 plus a development award of the same amount to be directed towards a public engagement or related professional development activity.

Public Engagement Advocacy: recognises members of staff or students who have enabled positive change in public engagement through leadership, guidance, practical measures or emotional support. Prize can go to a group or individual. One winning individual will receive £500 or a group will receive £1000.

Collaboration in Public Engagement: recognises a group of individuals who have worked particularly well together to embed public engagement into their work. One winning group will receive £1000.

Public Engagement Prize for Technical Staff - Sponsored by the Technician Commitment: open to members of Technical staff across the entire Campus who have undertaken or supported high quality public engagement as part of their work at the Wellcome Genome Campus. One winner will receive a personal prize of £250 plus a Technician Commitment Grant of the same amount to be put towards public engagement or a related professional development activity.

For eligibility guidance and more information on how to nominate yourself or someone else by Monday 15 June, go to www.bit.ly/PEprizes2020.

Best wishes,

The Public Engagement team

Tel: +44 (0)1223 496822

www.wellcomegenomecampus.org/publicengagement

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Wellcome Genome Campus Public Engagement is part of Connecting Science, which enables everyone to explore genomic science and its impact on research, health and society.