International+Prize

toc =Real World Examples= "The world's last great aeronautical prize: To circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon." (It was finally won in 1999 but you could disqualify the winner and open the contest back up again.) The winner receives a $1 million prize and $500,000 for the charity of his/her choice offered by the US brewery Anheuser-Bush. The International Aviation Federation, which officiates over record-breaking flights, has set[| strict rules.] [1]

"The Fields Medals are commonly regarded as mathematics' closest analog to the Nobel Prize (which does not exist in mathematics), and are awarded every four years by the International Mathematical Union to one or more outstanding researchers. 'Fields Medals' are more properly known by their official name, 'International medals for outstanding discoveries in mathematics.'" [5] "The Fields Medal is the highest scientific award for mathematicians, and is presented every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians, together with a prize of 15000 Canadian dollars. The first Fields Medal was awarded in 1936 at the World Congress in Oslo. The Fields Medal is made of gold, and shows the head of Archimedes (287-212 BC) together with a quotation attributed to him: "Transire suum pectus mundoque potiri" ("Rise above oneself and grasp the world")." [5]

[|"The Zayed Prize] is the world’s most valuable environmental award, worth US$1 million. It was established by H.H. Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai, in recognition of the philosophy, vision and achievements of former President, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Mercy be upon him, who worked tirelessly to preserve and protect the environment for future generations of his country, the region and the world. Through the United Nations Economic and Social Council, Zayed International Prize for the Environment has consultative status with the UN. Awarded on a biennial basis, the Prize recognizes and promotes pioneering contributions in the field of environment and sustainable development." [2]

The aim of Fyssen Foundation is to "encourage all forms of scientific inquiry into cognitive mechanisms, including thought and reasoning, which underlie animal and human behaviour ; their biological and cultural bases, and phylogenetic and ontogenetic development". For this purpose, an [|international prize of 50,000 Euros] is awarded annually to a scientist who has conducted distinguished research in the areas supported by the Foundation such as ethology, paleontology, archaeology, anthropology, psychology, epistemology, logic and the neurosciences. [3]

[|The Man Booker International Prize] recognizes one writer for achievement in fiction. "The prize will be awarded once every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English, or generally available in translation in the English language. The Man Booker International Prize recognises one writer for their achievement in fiction. Worth £60,000 to the winner, the prize is awarded once every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work is generally available in translation in the English language." [4]

"The [|Balzan Prize]’s aim is to foster culture, the sciences and the most meritorious initiatives in the cause of humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples throughout the world. The Prizes are awarded in the subject areas: The four [|subject areas], two in literature, the moral sciences and the arts, and two in the physical, mathematical and natural sciences and medicine, change every year. No more than four prizes may be awarded in any one year." [6] In 2002, American historian Anthony Grafton, of Princeton University, was "awarded a prize of 1,000,000 Swiss Francs (approximately 431,000 [pounds sterling]) for his work on the history of the humanities." [7]
 * literature, moral sciences, and the arts;
 * physical, mathematical and natural sciences and medicine;
 * humanities, peace and brotherhood among peoples.

"The [|Google Lunar X PRIZE] is a $30 million international competition to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon, travel 500 meters over the lunar surface, and send images and data back to the Earth. Teams must be at least 90% privately funded and must be registered to compete by December 31, 2010. The first team to land on the Moon and complete the mission objectives will be awarded $20 million; the full first prize is available until December 31, 2012. After that date, the first prize will drop to $15 million. The second team to do so will be awarded $5 million. Another $5 million will awarded in bonus prizes. The final deadline for winning the prize is December 31, 2014. "

"The prize was established in 1984 upon the initiative and with funds provided by Mr Ryoichi, Chairman of the Japan Shipbuilding Industry Foundation and President of the [|Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation]. The Sasakawa Health Prize consists of a statuette and a sum of the order of US$100000 to be given to one or more persons, institutions or nongovernmental organizations having accomplished outstanding innovative work in health development, in order to encourage the further development of such work. The guidelines (especially paragraphs 6 and 7) should be read carefully before the application form is completed. The prize is awarded at a special ceremony during the World Health Assembly."

=Performance Task= Most of these prizes have a nomination or application process. It can be self-nomination or nomination by a peer. Your students can create an application video (maybe not quite like //Legally Blonde// but you never know how creative your students might get) or a documentary website that addresses all the nomination criteria (facts and figures you want them to know) as well as attempt to persuade the panel of judges that this nominee is the best (higher order thinking).

=Audience= Classmates are the professors on the panel, the judges, the members of the distinguished body determining the winner. They can rate the applications in order of preference, say "yes" or "no" to whether the nominee is even worthy of consideration (early elimination round), rate each one on a scale of 1 to 10. Bring in real experts in your field from the local community and have your students present to them as your community members pose as judges.

=Role= Students could act as a professional applying for an award. In this role the student could create an iMovie or other type II technology to demonstrate their qualities for the award. Students could also act as the panel of judges for the award. This could be a team project. Half the class could be a group of professionals that have been nominated and the other half could be the panel of judges. The judges could create the award and the criteria (and explain why that criteria is needed) for the "award" and then the professionals can make a video as explained before.

Students could be part of a team that have been given the task of creating a new high honor international award.

=WebQuest Examples= [Delete this text and insert links to WebQuests that have either a Performance Task OR an Audience Role OR both that fit this genre. Feel free to editorialize on the quality of the WebQuest, tell us which part (performance task or audience role) is the good example and why (or point out why the other portion is not a good example or what could be done to "beef it up"). If you know the author, mention that in the description or tell what group the author is affiliated with (a graduate school class, an elementary school in Iowa, . . . ).]

Citations [1] "The Great Balloon Challenge" by the BBC, London, England. Retrieved November 17, 2007 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/11/98/great_balloon_challenge/223362.stm [2] Zayed Prize International for the Environment Higher Committee home page, Dubai, United Arab Emerates. Retrieved November 17, 2007 from http://www.fondation-fyssen.org/prixUS.html [3] Fondation Fyssen home page, Paris France. Retrieved November 17, 2007 from http://www.fondation-fyssen.org/prixUS.html [4] The Man Booker International Prize home page, sponsored by The Man Group, London, England. Retrieved November 17, 2007 from http://www.manbookerinternational.com/home [5] [|Barran, Michel] and [|Weisstein, Eric W.] "Fields Medal." From [|//MathWorld//]--A Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FieldsMedal.html (cited in the format requested by the website). Retrieved November 17, 2007. [6] International Balzan Prize Foundation website, Milano, Italy. Retrieved November 17, 2007 from http://www.balzan.it/interne.aspx?lang=en&Codice=7&from1=7 [7] History Today, November 2002. Retrieved November 17, 2007 from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4706/is_200211/ai_n17278524