Community members have less than a week to nominate the region's top achievers in Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (ESTEAM) for the annual Peel Bright Minds awards.
In their second year, the awards aim to recognise and celebrate the best of ESTEAM achievements locally, while highlighting and rewarding the efforts and excellence of people in the community.
People have until May 13 to submit nominations for five categories, which include Citizen Scientist of the Year, Science Communicator of the Year, Young ESTEAM Champion of the Year, ESTEAM Educator of the Year and ESTEAM Champion of the Year.
The ESTEAM Educator of the Year is a new category this year.
Peel Bright Minds program coordinator Charlie Jones said the category was introduced to recognise those championing the fields in educational roles such as teachers or librarians.
"There's a dedicated website for it this year. All the information they need is there and an online nomination form. It's really simple, just some demographic information and then a write up of 300 words or less."
Ms Jones said those striving in the field warranted accolades.
"They really deserve to be recognised for their work. The work that they're doing is really helping to better our community for the future of work and without them that wouldn't happen," Ms Jones said.
"They deserve to be recognised not only for themselves and what they're doing, but the awards will also inspire other people to do similar things in ESTEAM."
Last year, among those to speak at the event was West Australian chief scientist Professor Peter Klinken and former WA chief scientist professor Lyn Beazley.
For more information on the awards or on Peel Bright Minds visit their Facebook page.
