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The irony of 3M scientists mentoring and awarding a project dedicated to purifying water is not lost on this reader. http://www.cleanwateraction.org/publicatio
by shawn-butler 14y ago
The irony of 3M scientists mentoring and awarding a project dedicated to purifying water is not lost on this reader.
http://www.cleanwateraction.org/publication/pfc-factsheet http://www.cleanwateraction.org/publication/pfc-factsheet
Great to see these kids being rewarded and recognized for their hard work though. Inspires me to think about volunteering to be honest.
- mrlyc 14y agoThe award prizes seem odd with first place winning $25,000 while the other finalists win only $1,000 each. I feel uncomfortable about that "winner takes all" approach as it increases the importance of luck and decreases that of effort. Is it common in the United States?
- shawn-butler 14y agoThe only other one of this sort of scope of which I am aware is the science and engineering competition held by Intel [0]: US $75,000 for winner, 2 awards of $50,000 each, and 17 best of category awards of US $5,000 ea. Then smaller dollar amounts for the next 5 finishers in each category. [0] http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/competitions/international-science-and-engineering-fair.html http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/competition...