The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) offers this award for science journalism written for children as part of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. The award is open to journalists worldwide for work distributed via any medium - print, broadcast or online. The prize aims to recognise excellence in reporting about science for children up to age 14. The subject matter may be in most fields of science, but features focused exclusively on health or clinical medicine are not eligible. The Children's Science News competition is open to both United States and foreign news media.

The awards will be presented at the AAAS Annual Meeting in February 2010 in San Diego. The award for each category is US$3,000. AAAS will reimburse winners for reasonable travel and hotel expenses. In cases of multiple authors or producers, only one person's travel expenses will be covered.

Entrants may submit an individual item, a series of up to three segments, or a group of three unrelated items. Entrants should submit nine copies of the entry, each with a completed copy of the entry form attached to each copy. The organisers request English translations of foreign-language entries whenever possible.

Click here to access information on guidelines and eligibility criteria.

Click here to access information on previous winners.

AAAS website; and email from Molly McElroy to The Communication Initiative on June 9 2009.