Along with the $100,000 grant, the winners will join an elite technology community think tank of past winners including Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter; Maria Thomas, former CEO of Etsy, Adam D'Angelo, co-founder of Quora and former CTO of Facebook, and Paul Graham, co-founder and Partner at Y Combinator.
For most recipients, the value of the six-year-old award has less to do with the money than with the opportunity it grants the winner to make a "wish": to devote the funds to a humanitarian project that will almost inevitably draw donations and other help from the organization's corporate partners and influential supporters.
Apparently Orangatame is looking to keep its options open in the future, as this bidding only grants the winner the default spot for three months.
The automatic ACC bid was the result of an off-season deal following the inaugural ACC Championship Game which granted the winner of the ACC Championship Game an automatic bid to the Orange Bowl unless it was ranked high enough in the Bowl Championship Series standings to play in the National Championship Game.
The grant awards the winner a $5,000 cash prize; the Terra Foundation will fund production of the book, which will be published in English by Yale University Press; and the winner will be invited to deliver a lecture at Yale University.
This time around, I'm co-sponsoring with investors Fred and Joanne Wilson to award $50K as a cash grant to the winner of the 4th Women Startup Challenge focused on virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI).
The Golden Key will grant the lucky winner tickets for them and a guest to any NKOTB concert from 2010 and beyond forever.
An automatic berth in the NCAA tournament is granted to the winner of the WAC tournament.
Moving forward, the purse at the API will be increased to "eye-opening" levels, and an upgraded three-year tour exemption will be granted to the winner of The Arnie, Pazder says.
In the 2010-11 school year, the program included a Back to Breakfast contest in which 12 teachers each won $5,000 for short essays describing how they would use that grant, with the winners creating videos to post on YouTube.
