STEM successes celebrated with 2025 Peter Doherty Awards entries now open
- Nominations are open for the 2025 Peter Doherty Awards and close on 31 March 2025.
- The Awards honour outstanding contributions to STEM education in Queensland, with $5000 prizes to further the winners' learning.
- The Crisafulli Government is proud to deliver the awards and empower the next generation of STEM professionals.
Queensland's bright, innovative, and imaginative minds are encouraged to apply for the 2025 Peter Doherty Awards for Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education.
The awards are named after Professor Peter Doherty, a Brisbane-born, Nobel Prize-winning scientist who was educated at Indooroopilly State High School and The University of Queensland.
The prestigious awards celebrate the students, teachers, schools, support officers and education partners that make an outstanding contribution to STEM education across eight categories.
Since 2004, 571 Peter Doherty Award recipients have been recognised, including more than 280 students, 170 teachers, and 35 schools.
The Crisafulli Government is delivering a fresh start for Queensland schools by boosting the number of teachers to be trained in STEM each year and reducing red tape in the classroom by 25 per cent.
The $44 million Behavioural Boost program will also deliver more support for teachers – through the hiring of new support staff – to stamp out bullying and allow them to focus on increasing Queensland students' grades which lagged after a decade of Labor.
Minister for Education John-Paul Langbroek said the Crisafulli Government was proud to reward the next generation of Queensland education high-achievers.
"The Peter Doherty Awards celebrates the students and teachers who are already making their mark in STEM, with 28 prizes across eight categories," Minister Langbroek said.
"Each year these awards recognise their outstanding innovation and achievements, and it's exciting to think the young winners of these awards could be the next generation of engineers, mathematicians, technicians and STEM teachers."
Minister Langbroek said the Crisafulli Government was committed to ensuring all Queensland students received world-class schooling after a decade of Labor inaction to address education standards.
"The Crisafulli Government is committed to shifting the focus back to the basics such as Mathematics and English to unleash every student's full potential, as well as reducing red tape to free up teachers to spend more time in the classroom.
"Under the former Labor Government, Queensland students were lagging behind other states and failing to meet national standards."
