Engineering Energy for the Future - Essay Contest
Energy! It fuels our cars, heats our homes, runs our computers and keeps the lights on. We use energy in almost everything we do, but if we aren’t careful there won’t be enough. Engineers have their work cut out for them. The world is counting on them to chart a course to a safe and clean energy future. They will need to come up with useful ways to save energy as well as ways to produce more of it. How can engineers work together to make the world work for the changing needs of people everywhere without damaging the environment? What should they be focusing on, and how will energy shape the future for engineering? Think about how much energy influences your life every day as you prepare your essay to answer the questions above.
Who Can Enter?
The contest is open to individual girls and boys. This year there are three age categories:
Ages 8-11 - 3rd grade to 5th grade
Ages 12-14 - 6th grade to 8th grade
Ages 15-18 - 9th grade to 12th grade
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Statistical modeling in clinical trials
Statistical modeling in clinical trials
Improved statistical methods for post-study treatment adjustments are needed.
Deadline: May 30, 2008
Reward: $25,000
To learn more visit the InnoCentive Web
Improved statistical methods for post-study treatment adjustments are needed.
Deadline: May 30, 2008
Reward: $25,000
To learn more visit the InnoCentive Web
The 2008 John W. Gardner Leadership Award
Independent Sector (IS) invites nominations for the 2008 John W. Gardner Leadership Award. The award recognizes a living American whose leadership in or with the nonprofit community has been transformative and who has mobilized and unified people, institutions, or causes that improve lives.
PopSci.com/BUG Labs Build a Bug Contest
PopSci.com and BUG labs are announcing a new challenge and the grand prize will be a BUGbase and four BUGmodules. Entries will be accepted until FEBRUARY 15, 2008.
DOE and GM Launch EcoCAR Competition
EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge is a three-year competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, General Motors, Natural Resources Canada and other sponsors. EcoCAR provides engineering students the chance to design and build advanced vehicles that demonstrate leading-edge automotive technologies with the goal of minimizing the environmental impact of personal transportation and illustrating pathways to a sustainable transportation future.
The EcoCAR Request for Proposal(RFP) selection process is open to accredited engineering schools in Canada, the United States of America, and Mexico. The organizers expect to have an open teleconference to discuss the details of the proposal and selection process early in January 2008 and Final proposals for EcoCAR are due March 3, 2008. Additional resources will be available at www.challengex.org until the new EcoCAR website has been established.
The EcoCAR Request for Proposal(RFP) selection process is open to accredited engineering schools in Canada, the United States of America, and Mexico. The organizers expect to have an open teleconference to discuss the details of the proposal and selection process early in January 2008 and Final proposals for EcoCAR are due March 3, 2008. Additional resources will be available at www.challengex.org until the new EcoCAR website has been established.
Optical Society of America and Materials Research Society Invite Applications for Their 2008 - 2009 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship
2008-2009 MRS/OSA Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship, Application Deadline: January 9, 2008.
The Fellow spends one year working as a special legislative assistant on the staff of a member of the U.S. Congress or congressional committee. Activities may involve conducting legislative or oversight work, assisting in congressional hearings and debates, and preparing briefs and writing speeches. The Fellow also attends an orientation program on Congressional and executive branch operations, which includes guidance in the congressional placement process, and a year-long seminar series on science and public policy issues.
The Fellow spends one year working as a special legislative assistant on the staff of a member of the U.S. Congress or congressional committee. Activities may involve conducting legislative or oversight work, assisting in congressional hearings and debates, and preparing briefs and writing speeches. The Fellow also attends an orientation program on Congressional and executive branch operations, which includes guidance in the congressional placement process, and a year-long seminar series on science and public policy issues.
ideablob.com - one idea every month will win $10,000
ideablob.com is where entrepreneurs and small business owners can share and grow their business ideas – and have a chance to win $10,000 towards fulfilling them.
Great ideas are generated every day by people all across the country, and now these ideas have a place to live and grow. Eligible individuals can submit their business idea to ideablob.com, and based on votes from the ideablob.com online community – which includes other innovators as well as friends, family, colleagues, associates, teachers and mentors – one idea every month will win $10,000.
Great ideas are generated every day by people all across the country, and now these ideas have a place to live and grow. Eligible individuals can submit their business idea to ideablob.com, and based on votes from the ideablob.com online community – which includes other innovators as well as friends, family, colleagues, associates, teachers and mentors – one idea every month will win $10,000.
Giving Challenge - facebook
The objective of the Giving Challenge is to introduce new ways of giving and connecting with others through your cause. A total of $250,000 will be given to the nonprofit beneficiaries of those causes who receive the most unique donations between 12:00 p.m. PST on December 13, 2007, and 12:00 p.m. PST on February 1, 2008. The breakdown of the awards is as follows:
* $50,000 to the cause with the most unique donors
* $25,000 to the next two causes with the most unique donors
* $10,000 to the next ten causes with the most unique donors
* $1,000 each day to the cause with the most unique donors that day
The Giving Challenge is not focused on how much money you can raise, but on how successful you are at building collective action to make a lasting impact. To succeed, the goal is to get as many unique donations to your charity as possible.
Only U.S.-based 501(c)3 charities listed in the JustGive database (supplied by GuideStar.org) are eligible as potential Challenge awardees.
* $50,000 to the cause with the most unique donors
* $25,000 to the next two causes with the most unique donors
* $10,000 to the next ten causes with the most unique donors
* $1,000 each day to the cause with the most unique donors that day
The Giving Challenge is not focused on how much money you can raise, but on how successful you are at building collective action to make a lasting impact. To succeed, the goal is to get as many unique donations to your charity as possible.
Only U.S.-based 501(c)3 charities listed in the JustGive database (supplied by GuideStar.org) are eligible as potential Challenge awardees.
Global Call For Nominations of Innovators Using Technology to Benefit Humanity
The Tech Museum Awards is a unique and prestigious program that honors and awards innovators from around the world who use technology to benefit humanity in the categories of:
* Education
* Equality
* Economic Development
* Environment
* Health
Reward those making a difference and nominate today. A simple nomination form can be found at www.techawards.org. Self-nominations are accepted and encouraged. Individuals, nonprofit organizations, and companies are all eligible. One Laureate in each category will be granted a $50,000 cash prize.
* Education
* Equality
* Economic Development
* Environment
* Health
Reward those making a difference and nominate today. A simple nomination form can be found at www.techawards.org. Self-nominations are accepted and encouraged. Individuals, nonprofit organizations, and companies are all eligible. One Laureate in each category will be granted a $50,000 cash prize.
The Purpose Prize
Civic Ventures has opened nominations for the 2008 Purpose Prize, a major initiative that invests in people over 60 who are leading a new age of social innovation. The Prize provides five awards of $100,000. Nominations close on March 1, 2008.
MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship Announces $60,000 in Prize Money for Development Focused Projects
The MIT Entrepreneurship Competition and the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship today announced that they will align resources for the 2008 competition to further benefit and encourage entrepreneurs in the social development sector. The MIT Legatum Center will offer a $30,000 Legatum Prize for “the business plan that will have the most significant impact in a developing economy.” There will also be two $10,000 Legatum Prizes for two runners-up in this category. Business plans across all tracks of the MIT Entrepreneurship Competition are eligible for the Legatum Prize.
America’s Giving Challenge
The Case Foundation and Parade Magazine are presenting America’s Giving Challenge and awarding $500,000 to charities whose supporters have attracted the most unique donors to their cause using new and innovative online tools.
Nominate your favorite example of geotourism and win a trip for two
Nominate your favorite example of geotourism -- defined by National Geographic as tourism that sustains or enhances the geographical character of a place: its environment, heritage, culture, aesthetics, and the well-being of its residents.
All nominees will receive a personal email inviting them to enter the National Geographic-Ashoka's-Changemakers Geotourism Challenge launching on jan 30, 2008. All nominators who tell their first-person story become eligible to win one of two whl.travel prizes.
All nominees will receive a personal email inviting them to enter the National Geographic-Ashoka's-Changemakers Geotourism Challenge launching on jan 30, 2008. All nominators who tell their first-person story become eligible to win one of two whl.travel prizes.
2008 MRS Entrepreneurship Challenge
December 15, 2007, is the deadline for team registration for the 2008 MRS Entrepreneurship Challenge. A panel of judges from the venture capital community awaits your entry pitch. This competition just might get your technology the visibility it needs for venture capital funding. Forms are available on the competition website.
ResearchChannel Grant Winners Videos Now Posted
Last year ResearchChannel recognized five winners in their annual Matching Funds Production Awards Program: Montana State University, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, University of Wisconsin – Madison, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the American Meteorological Society.
The program aims to raise public awareness of the value of research, and contribute to and support public knowledge of, familiarity with, and thinking about major issues and discoveries that affect our lives and futures.
The deadline for ResearchChannel’s 2007 Matching Funds Program has been extended. Submissions must be received by Monday, Dec. 31, 2007.
The program aims to raise public awareness of the value of research, and contribute to and support public knowledge of, familiarity with, and thinking about major issues and discoveries that affect our lives and futures.
The deadline for ResearchChannel’s 2007 Matching Funds Program has been extended. Submissions must be received by Monday, Dec. 31, 2007.
The 2006 winning programs are now posted:
“Corals at the Crossroads”
The Tech Museum Awards 2007
The Tech Museum Awards honored Laureates from around the globe for their technological innovations benefiting humanity.
The five award recipients were:
Fundacion Terram of the Intel Environment Award category for its technology that deploys seaweed to absorb the wastes of salmon farming while providing feed for aquaculture.
blueEnergy of the Accenture Economic Development Award category for its technology that brings renewable electrification and jobs to remote places.
TakingITGlobal of the Microsoft Education Award category for its technology that provides young people worldwide with an online platform for social change.
The Diagnostics Development Unit, University of Cambridge and Diagnostics for the Real World of The Swanson Foundation Health Award category for inventing technology to test for infectious diseases quickly and accurately.
Devendra Raj Mehta of the SanDisk Equality Award category for engineering ingenious, low-cost technology to provide prosthetic limbs for amputees.
The five award recipients were:
Fundacion Terram of the Intel Environment Award category for its technology that deploys seaweed to absorb the wastes of salmon farming while providing feed for aquaculture.
blueEnergy of the Accenture Economic Development Award category for its technology that brings renewable electrification and jobs to remote places.
TakingITGlobal of the Microsoft Education Award category for its technology that provides young people worldwide with an online platform for social change.
The Diagnostics Development Unit, University of Cambridge and Diagnostics for the Real World of The Swanson Foundation Health Award category for inventing technology to test for infectious diseases quickly and accurately.
Devendra Raj Mehta of the SanDisk Equality Award category for engineering ingenious, low-cost technology to provide prosthetic limbs for amputees.
Global Social Benefit Incubator 2008
The Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI), a program developed by Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society, assists social benefit entrepreneurs in developing “business plans” that enable their organizations to reach increasing numbers of beneficiaries.
All who participate in the Business Planning Exercises will benefit from the mentoring and feedback on their application, and 15 to 20 candidates will be selected for a full scholarship, valued at US $20,000, to attend the intensive two week in-residence program. Selected candidates are responsible for their travel expenses (airfare, ground transportation, passport, visa).
Applicants should begin preparing their exercises now and post them on Social Edge beginning January 2, 2008. Each submittal is reviewed by a GSBI staff member (the GSBI Application Task Force). Social Edge members also are invited to review and comment on the exercises of any organization. Participants in the 2008 GSBI in-residence program will be selected from those organizations that complete all three exercises.
All who participate in the Business Planning Exercises will benefit from the mentoring and feedback on their application, and 15 to 20 candidates will be selected for a full scholarship, valued at US $20,000, to attend the intensive two week in-residence program. Selected candidates are responsible for their travel expenses (airfare, ground transportation, passport, visa).
Applicants should begin preparing their exercises now and post them on Social Edge beginning January 2, 2008. Each submittal is reviewed by a GSBI staff member (the GSBI Application Task Force). Social Edge members also are invited to review and comment on the exercises of any organization. Participants in the 2008 GSBI in-residence program will be selected from those organizations that complete all three exercises.
InnoCentive Marketing Video Challenge
Create a Marketing Video to help recruit new InnoCentive Solvers and you could win $5,000!. This challenge is looking for creation of marketing videos aimed at energizing the recruitment of new InnoCentive Solvers.
There are will be two winning videos: one chosen by the InnoCentive staff and the other by the whole InnoCentive Solver community. Click here to read more.
There are will be two winning videos: one chosen by the InnoCentive staff and the other by the whole InnoCentive Solver community. Click here to read more.
Ignite Clean Energy Business Presentation Competition
The Ignite Clean Energy program aims to give clean energy entrepreneurs a competitive edge in the funding race by training contestants in the best practices for creating money-winning presentations.
Rules, regulations and related information for competitors in the 2008 Ignite Clean Energy Business Presentation Competition.
Rules, regulations and related information for competitors in the 2008 Ignite Clean Energy Business Presentation Competition.
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