Not exact matches
The
schools have launched business plan
competitions, dangling significant cash
awards to student winners so they can start their new businesses.
Prizes from business contests run the gamut: A seemingly infinite number of local and business -
school competitions offer small - change
awards of $ 5,000 to $ 15,000; meanwhile, Rice University doles out six - figure prizes annually, as do accelerators MassChallenge and TechStars.
During the end - of - year pitch
competition at UConn, she won a $ 1,500
award and promptly founded Diverse IT LLC to provide diversity training and bullying - prevention curricula to K — 12
schools.
Singer Katy Perry's being criticised for
awarding a $ 10,000
competition prize to a private Catholic
school.
Because of his interest in fine wool breeds he was beginning with a breed that had its origins in the Spanish Merino.28 Later in the month he took third place at the annual inter-class FFA livestock judging
competition in Las Cruces and was
awarded a gold - plated watch fob.29 At the 1940 Southwestern Livestock Show in El Paso, again representing Las Cruces Union High
School FFA, Roy exhibited in the category of fat lambs.
Now in its ninth year, the Best Teen Chef
Competition awards more than $ 250,000 in tuition scholarships for degree programs at The Art Institutes to high -
school seniors in the U.S. and Canada.
Tom Carlin jumpstarted his culinary career in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri by studying culinary arts at Johnson County Community College and coaching the
school's
award - winning culinary
competition team.
He proposed a new program for distributing education funds modeled on President Barack Obama's state
competitions that will grant
awards based on
school performance and administrative efficiencies.
Jiachen Lee, Arooba Ahmed and Jillian Parker, a trio of young scientists from the Half Hollow Hills
school district won the $ 100,000 top team
award in the prestigious Siemens
Competition in Math, Science & Technology for their research into cell division that could help find treatments to cancers, viruses and other diseases.
The NYS Envirothon is an environmental education
competition where a team of high
school students work together in hopes of winning scholarships and
awards.
The governor says
schools that achieve their agreements early, by September, will get credit toward a
competition for $ 250 million dollars in grants that Cuomo intends to
award, as part of his
school aid budget.
Produce our renowned science
competitions that provide more than $ 6 million in
awards to students, educators and
schools annually.
During her third year in graduate
school, Ford won an award at an annual poster competition at Harvard Medical S
school, Ford won an
award at an annual poster
competition at Harvard Medical
SchoolSchool.
Now, the
school will take those efforts to a new level, after being
awarded a $ 1.1 million grant from the American Medical Association in a national
competition aimed at accelerating change in medical education.
Since 2010, the program has successfully hosted the Department of Energy sponsored Radiochemistry Fuel Cycle Summer
School, and students have received 10 top placement
awards in the DOE's Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research
Award competition.
Ho Lam Tang, Ph.D., who was recently appointed an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the
School of Medicine (effective August), is one of 12 winners of the Hartwell Foundation's 2016 Individual Biomedical Research
Award competition.
The other
awards in the international
competition went to Michel Franco's Mexican - French entry, «After Lucia,» a wounding indictment of high -
school bullying that took the Special Jury Prize, and to Merzak Allouache's «The Repentant» (Algeria / France), which won a Silver Hugo Special Mention.
Multi
award - winning caterer Cityserve has played host to the prestigious LACA
School Chef of the Year
Competition.
The Young Epidemiology Scholars
Competition wrapped up its first year by
awarding $ 50,000 college scholarships to two high
school students from a group of 60 finalists, juniors and seniors who had won regional and state
competitions involving nearly 600 entries nationwide.
Awards from these funds are determined through a University - wide
competition with incoming and current students from other Harvard
schools.
Following the success of last year's
competition, FSE Design in partnership with Jessops and Manfrotto, have re-launched The National
School Photography
Awards for 2016!
Awarded second place in the Childnet 2000
Schools competition, the site was produced at Duiliu Zamfirescu
School in Romania, with the help of Dumitru's students and family.
Lindley Junior
School won the
award last year, recognising its students participation in many choir
competitions throughout the country.
When the 600 junior - and senior - high -
school students who are winners in this year's Scholastic Writing
Awards were notified recently, they joined a list of
competition winners that includes Sylvia Plath, Bernard Malamud, and Joyce Carol Oates.
The
competition's grand prize was
awarded to Mary Bishop, Thomas Ferrick Jr., and Donald Kimelman of the Philadelphia Inquirer for «The Shame of the
Schools,» a lengthy and detailed series of articles on the Philadelphia...
Because is a art
school, the students in my class have varied talents: Carina and Martha are part of the Junior choir at Romanian Opera House and sing piano, Alexia do ballet and piano in
competitions, Andrei has a great artistic sensitivity in interpreting piano sheet music, Vlad and Calin already claimed solfeggios the cello and Andreea has been
awarded of two piano festivals and graduated Interpretative Mastery International, supported by Professor Andreeas Henkel from Dresden, Germany.
And, as feared, this «Race» is not really a
competition, but more akin to your elementary
school's annual field day: There will be only three consortia competing for three
awards.
Students from Mitchelton State
School have been
awarded with prizes in the national 60 Second Science Contest and NATA's Young Scientist of the Year
competitions.
Under the light tough regime all
schools shall
award contracts by publishing in the OJEU a call for
competition.
After weeks of
competition involving five hundred
schools across the UK, Bilton Junior
School from Rugby have been crowned the winners of the National Young Mathematicians»
Awards!
The National Young Mathematicians»
Awards is the biggest maths
competition for
school teams in the UK, open to teams of four children (two boys and two girls) aged nine to 11.
This national
competition is open to all
schools who are members of Eco-
Schools England, part of environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy, where more than 17,000
schools are registered and 1,200
schools currently hold the top
award of Eco-
Schools Green Flag status.
St Mary's
School, Colchester, Year 7 student Sasha Morganwas
awarded first prize in the annual
competition to design the Tendring Hundred Show programme and tickets.
Drapers Academy in Havering beat the
competition this year for its state - of - the - art facilities which saw the
school shortlisted for an
award from the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Award Second Runner - up: To StudentsFirst for State Policy Report Card Read Review → First Runner - up: To American Legislative Exchange Council for Report Card on American Education: Ranking State K - 12 Performance, Progress, and Reform Read Review → Grand Prize Winner: To Brookings Institution for The Education Choice and
Competition Index Read Review → and for
School Choice and
School Performance in the New York City Public
Schools
In the fall of 2009, ED released the FY 2009 SIG application for states to run a
competition to
award a first cohort of SIG
schools.
Fairfax County Public
Schools students won first place
awards in 20 categories and the
school division received the Lynn P. Barrier Outstanding School Division Award at the high school level at the Virginia Technology Student Association Technosphere 2018 compet
school division received the Lynn P. Barrier Outstanding
School Division Award at the high school level at the Virginia Technology Student Association Technosphere 2018 compet
School Division
Award at the high
school level at the Virginia Technology Student Association Technosphere 2018 compet
school level at the Virginia Technology Student Association Technosphere 2018
competition.
Department of Education
Awards $ 1 Million to 12 Districts for Outstanding Performance with Students with Disabilities Also Announces First Ever $ 1 Million «Special Education Recognition
Award»
Competition Available to All
Schools in 2012 - 13
School Year
After four days of intensive dancing, acting, concertizing, painting, sculpting, or otherwise demonstrating their artistic prowess during a
competition week in Miami this month, 36 out of some 150 of the most talented high -
school students in the nation were
awarded the title of finalist and a $ 3,000 unrestricted cash
award by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.
The article examines how the 16 U.S.
school districts
awarded federal grants through the Race to the Top (RTT)
competition are applying the funds to personalized learning initiatives.
06.30.2015 -
School - to - Work Student Receives All - Star
Award 06.08.2015 - Career Center Students Earn Perfect Attendance
Awards 06.04.2015 - Career Center Automotive Technology Students Succeed in
Competitions 05.27.2015 - Students Beautify Burchfield Park in Holt 05.26.2015 - Career Center Offering Summer Camp Opportunities in Construction, Manufacturing 05.22.2015 - Career Center Programming Students Place in Top 10 at National Leadership Conference 05.18.2015 - Three CACC Students
Awarded Michigan 2015 Breaking Traditions
Awards 05.12.2015 - CACC Offering New Programs, Hosting Information Night Event 04.20.2015 - CACC Students Demonstrate Skills in Year - End Showcase 04.15.2015 - CACC National Technical Honor Society to Host Professional Clothing Drive 04.08.2015 - CACC Inducts First Wall - of - Fame Recipients and
Awards Scholarships 04.08.2015 - CACC Health Occupations Students Earn Trip to State Leadership Conference 03.31.2015 - Ingham Intermediate
School District Announces Board of Education Openings 03.18.2015 - CACC Students Stir Up Excitement at Michigan ProStart
Competition 03.05.2015 - Ingham ISD Announces New Superintendent, Dr. Scott Koenigsknecht 03.02.2015 - CACC Programming Students Move on to State
Competition 02.25.2015 - CACC Offering New Programs, Hosting Information Night Event 02.23.2015 - Ingham Intermediate
School District Selects Finalists for Superintendent Position 02.16.2015 - Parent Advisory Committee to Hold Transition Fair 02.09.2015 - Candidates to Interview for Superintendent Role 01.15.2015 - Kogut Retires - Ingham ISD Superintendent Search Underway 09.19.2014 - Culinary Arts Program Ranked Amongst Top 50 in the Nation
Indiana didn't apply for a state - level
award, but the Metropolitan
School District of Warren Township in Indianapolis received a $ 28.5 million grant in the district - level
competition.
$ 19.4 M Federal SEED Grant Will Grow Ranks of Accomplished, Board - Certified Teachers Teaching and Leading in High - Need
Schools ARLINGTON, Va. — October 6, 2015 — The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has been
awarded a $ 19.4 - million grant from the U.S. Department of Education through the 2015 Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) grant
competition.
These
awards mark the third round of CityBridge Education's Breakthrough
Schools: D.C. school design challenge, a grant competition that challenges schools across D.C. to fundamentally rethink
Schools: D.C.
school design challenge, a grant
competition that challenges
schools across D.C. to fundamentally rethink
schools across D.C. to fundamentally rethink
school.
The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE)
awards SIG grants via a
competition for qualifying
schools that demonstrate the greatest need and longest commitment to substantially raise student achievement.
Latin College Prep's application, which focused on personalized instruction and the utilization of technology to improve instruction helped the
school's application to stand out from the
competition and thus receive the
award.
New Jersey was
awarded $ 38 million in late 2011 on the third try in a
competition that cost one state education commissioner his job and ultimately gave the state a late start in several federally funded programs dealing with teacher evaluations, curriculum and testing reforms, and
school choice.
For example, Race to the Top, a federal
competition that
awarded money to states with the best plans to overhaul their education systems, prompted many states to adopt new data systems that will use student test scores to grade
schools and teachers.
The
competition awards significant funding to teams of educators who are ready to redesign their educational model (or to create brand new
schools) that personalize learning for students.
Awarding only 25 percent of teachers pay bumps introduces an element of
competition into
schools, which, as many educators say, is contrary to what teachers do to ensure their students» academic achievement.