Sentences with phrase «for projects pitched»

Oddo's school allocations included $ 2.7 million for projects pitched to him by high school students as part of the Borough Student Advisory Council.

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Some examples include DreamWorks, where employees take free classes to learn how to pitch their ideas and are then able to pitch them directly to executives, and Facebook's «hackathons,» where engineers collaborate on software projects that have turned into real features for the site including the infamous «like» button.

Slack allows for organised and searchable channels of communication sorted by type — projects, pitches, finance, HR — so everyone who needs information on a particular business function can access it quickly and easily.

For example, in an October interview with industry trade publication Digiday, media consultant Aram Zucker - Scharff compared the project to Facebook's Instant Articles project, which is pitched as making news articles easier to read by hosting them directly on the social network's site.

A good pitch has to show the product already has some kind of traction, which means that before asking anyone for support put the necessary effort — and your own money — into the project.

You'll be required to write a project title, upload an image that best represents your venture, create a project pitch that persuades, add thank - you perks for those who contribute, shoot a video, and more.

It may be early in the show's run, but Colbert is already setting a precedent for booking guests beyond the traditional circle of Hollywood elite pitching their film and television projects.

You have to have en elevator pitch, a solid long pitch, and create pitch decks for new projects moving forward.

For this reason, your pitch needs to emphasize the value that you and your team add to the project, and more important your ability to see the idea through to fruition.

Employees, in groups or individually, can pitch passion projects that align with the company's purpose for the chance to win $ 7,500 for travel and expenses, plus two weeks of paid leave to pursue their research.

According to a leaked pitch deck, Snapchat was projecting to bring in about $ 250 million and $ 350 million in revenue for 2016, and as much as $ 1 billion for 2017.

TransCanada had earlier pitched the project as an 850,000 - barrel - per - day pipeline, suggesting the appetite for the project was stronger than even it expected.

That project alone could easily occupy a pitching coach and a manager for several years.

Bayern also plan to donate $ 1m for refugee projects and will lead refugee children onto the pitch for their next home game against FC Augsburg to promote the cause.

Nature lovers who want to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Earth Day outdoors can put on walking shoes and participate in a «March for Parks» event, don sturdy gloves and pick up litter along the Illinois Prairie Path or pitch in with spruce - up projects at area parks and preserves.

Streamlined sales pitches, voter confidence in the economy and the possibility of getting extra state money for voter - approved school construction projects all played a part, said Joe Kaczanowski, deputy superintendent in the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education.

Minna's family pitches in to help her come up with the perfect project for the hundredth day of school, from twenty sets of five sticks to two sets of fifty pieces of pasta.

Brown's instincts are for a broad pitch, projecting Labour as the party responding sensibly and fairly to international and domestic challenges while seeking to place the Conservatives on the isolationist right.

ALBANY, N.Y. >> Gov. Andrew Cuomo pitched a new big - projects agency as a way to help smooth the way for massive state construction like the planned $ 29 billion mass transit overhaul in New York City, but critics worry about a power grab by the famously hands - on leader.

Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney pitched the economic development plan to Cuomo at a time when the governor's staff was looking for a Syracuse - area project to put in the budget.

For more about about the Grassroots Mapping project, you can check out this piece from JustMeans.com plus their fundraising pitch on Kickstarter (video below).

They pitched their idea on a Virtual Farm project, which falls under the category for Smoke - Free World.

Those developers were allegedly allowed to draft RFPs (request for proposals — the official pitch for those competing for state projects) themselves, thereby handpicking exactly which qualifications «the state» required, which, wouldn't you know, always happened to fit those firm's qualifications.

The project, which is to be completed within nine months and valued at GHC7Million would have a FIFA standard football pitch, eight lane tartan track, volleyball, handball and basketball court, gym, ICT Center, entrepreneur and counselling center and a modern restaurant to cater for the youth in the Brong Ahafo region as they seek to harness their God given talents.

Cuomo pitched a new big - projects agency as a way to help smooth the way for massive state construction like the planned $ 29 billion mass transit overhaul in New York City, but critics worry about a power grab by the famously hands - on leader.

Trump and Gov. Andrew Cuomo met at Trump Tower, where Cuomo made his pitch for the state to receive federal infrastructure dollars for state projects and voiced concerns about Republican - led efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

But town supervisor Jeanne Walsh has developed a knack for securing grant funding to cover most of the costs of such projects, and the community has pitched in with plenty of volunteer fundraising efforts.

The other four winning projects pitched by students are: $ 100,000 for a new track at the College of Staten Island High School; $ 250,000 to improve the track at Tottenville High School; $ 600,000 to wire air conditioners at Susan Wagner High School; and $ 250,000 to upgrade the girls» locker room at Gaynor McCown High School.

President - elect Donald Trump and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo met at Trump Tower Wednesday morning, where Cuomo made his pitch for the state to receive federal infrastructure dollars for state projects and voiced concerns about Republican - led efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

«I've certainly been pitching this for 20 years, really from the beginning of BECs, when doing something like this in space seemed crazy,» says Robert Thompson, a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and CAL's project scientist.

The next year, Schmeisser marched into a large conference room at Army Research Office headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, to pitch a research project to investigate synthetic telepathy for soldiers.

The «young blood project» symposium was gussied up as one of the dozens of galas that fill the winter social calendar here, with the pitch for Maharaj's clinical trial artfully slipped in before the dessert of fruit and custard tart.

The experience, which included an introduction to the core principles of citizen science and working with other participants to design and pitch a proposal for a citizen science - based project, was «very inspiring,» says Heil, who defended her thesis in December and is currently a postdoc in her Ph.D. lab.

Haas's pitch, she says, was that the partnership would be to her advantage; as a stateside coauthor, he could secure grants for her project — hard to come by in impoverished Peru — from U.S. sources.

Now that Park has pitched her book, acquired an agent and a contract, and learned more about writing a book for public consumption, she sees many potential benefits to tackling this project now while her career is in full swing: it may open other doors for her, and she's come to think that early or mid-career scientists can also be uniquely inspiring to people.

As part of the global Brainhack event, teams at Western will join three dozen other sites around the globe in pitching projects and then working intensively on those projects for two straight days.

To apply for this funding you must attend a sandpit workshop — an intensive and interactive three - day residential event where you will have the opportunity to: • Network and form new collaborations spanning diverse research areas and organisations • Work in broad, multidisciplinary teams to generate new and innovative research ideas • Pitch projects for seed funding to test the feasibility of your ideas Find out more about what to expect at the innovation sandpit workshop

«We knew this cosmic choir had a strong high - pitched component, but we still don't know if it comes from a lot of smaller, quiet singers, or a few with loud voices,» says coauthor Daniel Stern, the project scientist for NuSTAR at JPL.

While one would assume Elizabeth attended the AMAs in order to remind everyone that the latest Hunger Games flick is currently in theaters, it's more likely she made an appearance at a music awards show to do a little side - promotion for her passion project, Pitch Perfect 2, which is in its final stages of gestation.

Spacehive provides a single portal where people with project ideas can build support from their community, ensure their plans are viable, pitch for funding from the crowd and our partners at the same time, and share the impact they've created.

Tara tries to drop her Abnormal Psychology class but instead receives an intriguing pitch from her instructor, Dr. Hattaras; Charmaine and Neil find parenthood a struggle but still refuse Tara's help; Max finds himself at odds with his boss at his new job; Kate prepares for flight attendant training; Lionel catches Marshall with Noah, jeopardizing their student film project.

Unless you're someone like Wes Anderson or George Clooney, who surely have his personal number on speed dial, there's a fat chance that you're going to be able to even pitch to the Ghostbusters star, let alone have him sign on for your project.

Among the more inspired random topics: Jerry's first meeting at DreamWorks, Brad Garrett discussing his pitch for a bread movie, cracking down on bootlegs, making voice acting easy for Patrick Warburton and Ray Liotta, and discussing similar projects at competing studios.

As he and Silver continued to pitch «Godless» around town, Frank branched out into directing with the 2007 noir «The Lookout» and Liam Neeson in «A Walk Among the Tombstones» He decided he wanted to helm «Godless,» which was already a tough sell, thanks to the feeble international market for westerns and a projected running time of three hours.

The project was pitched on the heels of the Black Panther's record - breaking theatrical run, and numerous suitors emerged for a re-team... Read

Caroline Harris Fleming costume designer talks about getting into the business, and if she'd be up for Bond... Pitch Perfect 2 The Mindy Project's Salvador Perez set to design for Elizabeth Banks» -LSB-...]

Rejoining Noah in the present day, he (now a staunch Russell Crowe) and his wife (Jennifer Connelly, her second project with Aronofsky after Requiem for a Dream) live off the land like nomads, farming and scavenging for vegetables as the humans under the flag of Cain continue to ravage the Earth and pillage the world, their depravity reaching enough of a fever pitch to become an affront to God (who is always referred to as Creator).

With the project expanded to a feature - length film script by 1993, Michelle Pfeiffer and Meg Ryan's agents pitched them for the role, while Tarantino considered Holly Hunter, Meg Tilly, Alfre Woodard and Rosanna Arquette.

It is a sequel to the original Divinity: Original Sin that was pitched as a Kickstarter project and released to critical acclaim and huge success for Larian Studios.

Stålenhag's artbook was produced with the help of a Kickstarter campaign, where you can see a pitch video for the project and number of images that reveal the world - building and visual scope of Stålenhag's vision for apocalyptic America.