Here is the note from Randy Wang on the Tech Award ________________________________________ From: studyhall-discuss-bounces@lists.cs.princeton.edu [studyhall-discuss-bounces@lists.cs.princeton.edu] On Behalf Of Randolph Wang [rywang@CS.Princeton.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:58 PM To: Randolph Wang Subject: (dsh-discuss) (dsh-hubs) we won, again. DSH won the top slot of the education category in the Tech Awards gala and $50K cash tonight!! (The independent judges were managed separately by Santa Clara University. Before the secret decision was announced tonight, we "only" made the top 25 "laureates.") http://www.techawards.org/ I was supposed to give a short "acceptance speech." Here's the gist of what I said: [some joke about hillbillies now ready to loot Nieman Marcus coast-to-coast, a Sarah Palin joke in case you didn't know...] I thanked the award judges for recognizing the beauty in simplicity, for recognizing that sometimes, the ideas that could make a difference are not always the sexiest. We are honored and humbled etc. This is a recognition of so many people who have done the hard real work. I want to especially mention Dr. Urvashi Sahni, a co-founder, who unfortunately can't make to the ceremony, because she's running real schools, and I'm just sent here to do what I do best: eating. There are too many names to enumerate so I can only give you some examples of all the anonymous good people who do the real work. There are the teachers who stay after school everyday to film lessons; there's the staff who's holed up in a small non-AC'ed office in 40-degree heat to burn hundreds of DVDs overnight to beat a deadline; there's the village school teacher who opened an extra evening school for kids who can't make it during the day, for no extra pay, for no extra recognition; there're the volunteers who put equipment in their suitcases to smuggle to India for us. This award goes to all the people like them! And finally, please help Digital StudyHall. You can start by Googling "Digital StudyHall." And considering who's handing out the envelope (Microsoft is a sponsor), I think live.com might do nicely too. End lame speech. You can check out all the other projects featured at the Tech Awards. A lot of them are really brilliant. The dude who invented the non-reusable syringe (over a billion made!) won the top prize in the health category. Totally brilliant! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://dsh.cs.washington.edu Studyhall-hub mailing list dsh-hubs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to dsh-hubs-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dsh-hubs When replying to messages from this list, please consider changing the recipient address to studyhall-discuss@lists.cs.princeton.edu. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- _______________________________________________ http://dsh.cs.washington.edu Studyhall-discuss mailing list Studyhall-discuss@lists.cs.princeton.edu https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/studyhall-discuss