Australian Museum Eureka Prize是澳大利亚最综合的国家级科研大奖。一年一度的颁奖晚宴在八月份悉尼市政厅举行，由于场地有限只有邀约嘉宾才能参加，所以也就成为了每年各大新闻媒体，科研院所，政界要员，社会名流的一次大聚会，场面十分隆重，号称是澳洲的科学界的奥斯卡。其奖项涵盖广泛包括七项基础科学研究及科技创新奖（包括：环保，传染病防治，国防科技，农牧科研，交叉学科创新，国际科研合作，和基础科研），四项个人领袖奖，三项科技传媒奖，和两项青少年科学探索奖。
PLC两位十岁女生凯特琳·沃克和艾米莉娅·莱，因研究蜜蜂习性，获得澳大利亚科学最高荣誉尤里卡奖青少年探索奖，
她们花了大约七个月的时间研究课题，与专家交谈，在午餐时间和周末制作视频。
PLC的初中科学协调员安妮·马丁（Annie Martin）说，凯特琳、阿米莉亚和其他四名被选为决赛者或进入尤里卡奖备受赞誉的类别的学生都具有强列好奇心。
马丁女士和其他三位老师每周都与所有11个小组会面，这些小组为竞赛提交了一段视频，帮助她们制定研究计划，收集调查结果并整理她们的视频。
马丁女士在大多数日子里，在课前和课后以及午餐时间帮助学生完成课外项目，她说：“我只是喜欢让孩子们热爱科学，我希望他们具有探究精神，想知道并愿意分享。”
她说，比赛的开放性，让学生选择任何她们感兴趣的话题，以及学校奖励的视频方面都很重要。
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Caitlyn Walker and Amelia Lai, both 10, have gone from knowing next to nothing about bees to donning bee suits, building bee hotels around their neighbourhood and winning a Eureka Prize for their research on the declining species.
"We didn't know much about bees except that when they're aggravated, they sting and get beheaded and die," said Caitlyn, who is in year 5 at Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney.
"So we learnt a lot during the project. They pollinate one-third of our plants and without them we'd be eating rice, wheat and corn.
"And they're becoming endangered because they have a loss of habitat and a loss of biodiversity and people are using pesticides."
Caitlyn and Amelia were named the winners of this year's Australian Museum Eureka Prize for primary school science on Wednesday for their video showing their findings on major threats to bee populations and strategies for saving bees.
They spent about seven months researching their subject, talking to experts and working on their video during lunchtimes and on weekends.
"We spoke to the Urban Beehive and they took us to their hives in Centennial Park where all the bees are kept," Amelia, who is also in year 5 at PLC, said.
People underestimate bees sometimes and mostly just think they sting us, but they're really important.
Presbyterian Ladies' College student Amelia Lai
Presbyterian Ladies' College junior school science coordinator Annie Martin
Presbyterian Ladies' College junior school science coordinator Annie Martin
"It was really, really cool. We got to hold and see all the bees, got to put on the suits and learn more. People underestimate bees sometimes and mostly just think they sting us, but they're really important.
"We definitely want to plant more flowers and get more bee hotels and hives in the community, and educate and support everybody in helping the bees."
Bee hotels are essentially boxes filled with hollowed tubes and can be put into backyards to encourage bees to nest.
Annie Martin, the junior school science coordinator at PLC, said Caitlyn and Amelia and four other students who were named as finalists or made it into the highly commended category for the Eureka Prize stood out as being very inquisitive.
They see things and wonder things and they don't just leave it at that, they want to read and investigate why.
"They see things and wonder things and they don't just leave it at that, they want to read and investigate why," Ms Martin said.
Ms Martin and three other teachers met on a weekly basis with all 11 groups that submitted a video for the competition to help them with research planning, collecting findings and putting together their videos.
Ms Martin, who helps students with extracurricular projects before and after school and during lunchtimes on most days, said: "I just love being able to have kids loving science, I want them to have inquiring minds and to want to know and want to share."
She said both the open-ended nature of the competition, which lets students choose whatever topic interests them, and the video aspect for the schools prize is important.
I just love being able to have kids loving science, I want them to have inquiring minds and to want to know and want to share.
"My belief is that in science, you can press a button and get an answer to a question really quickly in today's world but a big part in the future with our children is to teach them not just to understand but to be able to communicate, to learn stuff so they know it well enough to share it with others."
This year's other winners include Wendy Erber, Kathryn Fuller and Henry Hui for their work on detecting abnormal chromosomes in leukaemia cells, and Sally Dunwoodie for her discovery of a vitamin that could potentially prevent miscarriages and birth defects.
