Sentences with phrase «which grants the winner»

The only promise that life in this whitewashed world seems to hold is a random lottery, which grants the winner a trip to «the island,» supposedly the last uncontaminated spot on earth.

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He's also the winner of the inaugural Breakthrough Junior Challenge, funded in part by a grant from Zuckerberg, which asks young people between the ages of 13 and 18 to create short videos that communicate big ideas in life sciences, physics and math.

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He further expressed the hope that the Court of Appeal would grant Otti's prayer to be declared the winner of the poll, «Considering the judgment of lower tribunal, which upheld the cancellation of the results of the election in three local government areas.»

'' But the court which was Father Christmas granted Victor Umeh what he did not pray for, as his prayer was for the court to declare him winner of the election.

Over the past few weeks, it has chosen 77 of a projected 110 winners from some 280 community colleges, 4 - year schools, and graduate research universities that competed for this first round of institutional grants, which average $ 220,000.

Among the winners of the Ansari X Prize was the X Prize Foundation itself, which, as handmaiden to Burt Rutan's accomplishment, has been accorded prestige that in turn has granted it access to the most rarefied levels of the entrepreneurial economy.

Bowen and Sanderman's project is among 14 that were announced on August 23 as winners of research grants from the EMSL and the Joint Genome Institute, which is managed by the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.

Among the winners are feature - length narrative filmmakers Kelly Daniela Norris and T. W. Pittman's for «Nakom,» Daniel Levin for «Bagatelle,» Daniel Laabs for «Jules of Light and Dark,» and Paul Gordon for «Wolves,» which was also given the new Powered by Dell Technology Grant which includes state - of - the - art equipment from Dell.

Accepting her award, McDormand granted she was befuddled at the identities of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which picks the winners, but gave them credit.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

This fall Wiener was named a winner of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development grant competition, which recognizes innovative interventions that promote literacy.

As this year's Gail P. Kelly Award winner, Trevino will receive a certificate and a grant to attend the annual Comparative and International Education Society Conference, which will take place at Columbia University in March.

According to EdScoop's Patience Wait, another financial winner in the recently passed budget bill is ESSA's Education Innovation and Research grant program, which «will receive $ 120 million this year, up from $ 100 million last year, but lower than the $ 180 million it once received annually...

He is a leader and a co-founder of Diplomas Now, an evidence based school transformation model for high needs middle and high schools which combines whole school reform with enhance student supports guided by an early warning system and winner of a federal Investing in Innovation (I3) validation grant which is currently being implemented in forty schools across twelve school districts.

Among the winners are two large consortia of districts in Kentucky and Washington State, which won the largest grants.

Dan's work at the Californian has lead to numerous awards, including the National Association of Newspaper's «20 Under 40» award in 2005; an «Edgie» award for Bakotopia.com in 2006; a Knight - Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism for the Bakomatic Social Media Platform; and a grant for $ 837,000 to develop Printcasting, which was one of 16 winners of the 2008 Knight News Challenge.

Libraries Michigan's Ypsilanti District Library is one of the two winners of the Will Eisner Graphic Novel Award, which includes a $ 7,000 grant to purchase graphic novels and a set of this year's Eisner Award nominees.

They also held Picori Blade in their possession between the War of the Bound Chest and the events of The Minish Cap, sponsoring a yearly sword - fighting tournament in which the winner was granted permission to touch the sword in a ceremony outside of Hyrule Castle.

The Special Indie Prize award will grant the winner the possibility to take part in the European edition of Indie Prize showcase, which will take place in London, during Casual Connect Europe 2018 (May 29 - 31).

Lastly, this weekend Indie Dev Grant winner 99 Spirits released on Windows, which is a Japanese style puzzle RPG where you must identify the enemy to defeat it.

In awards news: this year's BP Portrait Award has announced its shortlist, with artists Miriam Escofet, Felicia Forte, Ania Hobson and Zhu Tongyao in the running — the winner will be announced in June; LA's Mike Kelley Foundation has named recipients for its 2018 Artist Project Grants — the Craft & Folk Art Museum, Fulcrum Arts, Hammer Museum, JOAN, LA Freewaves, LAXART, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Latin American Art, Self Help Graphics & Art and the Underground Museum will receive a total of USD$ 400,000 in support; ArtCenter / South Florida have announced a new USD$ 500,000 visual art awards called the Ellies, with first recipients anounced in October; and the official selection for the 71st Cannes film festival, which runs 8 — 19 May, is here, with Jean - Luc Godard, Spike Lee and Jia Zhangke in competition — only three out of 18 films competing for the Palme d'Or have female directors.

Among the winners is the New Art Gallery Walsall, which has received a # 3.5 m grant, allaying fears of its imminent closure.

Traditionally, the grants awarded along the Kunstverein Hannover Prize, which consist of two - year studio stipendiums in the «Villa Minimo» as well as a concluding exhibition in the Kunstverein, and the winner of the «Kunstpreis der Sparkasse Hannover» (Art Prize of the Sparkasse Hannover) are chosen within the framework of the «Herbstausstellung».

The prize, which grants # 10,000 to the eventual winner, is now in its sixth year.

The Joan Mitchell Foundation has announced the 15 recipients of its 2010 MFA Grant Program, which awards $ 15,000 to each winner via an anonymous process of nomination and jury review.

Martin was a winner of the prestigious Wynn Newhouse Award in 2012, which provides grants to artists of excellence who happen to have disabilities.

The initiative also includes the Knight Prototype Fund, which fosters accurate information in media and announced a new round of winners in June 2017, and Newsmatch, a partnership with Democracy Fund to support nonprofit news and investigative news outlets with matching grants during the end - of - year giving period; Newsmatch was initially launched by Knight in December 2016.

Microsoft announced the winners of the research grant program that kicked off this summer, which awards schools with $ 100,000 and two HoloLens developer kits.

Of these ten finalists, five will be announced as winners on September 28, which means they will receive a $ 10,000 grant to help continue their good works.

The 2011 winners are presented with their grant checks, after which the five recipients address the dinner audience to talk about how much good work will be done with the $ 10,000 award in this two - part video segment.

«The Good Neighbor Award was so much more than I ever imagined,» said 2013 Good Neighbor Award winner Kristina Rhodes, who won for being a local trailblazer with Make - A-Wish, which grants wishes to children with life - threatening illnesses.