The X PRIZE Foundation, an educational nonprofit that designs and administers competitions with prizes of $10 million or more, has announced a partnership with the Evans School of Public Affairs to launch the X PRIZE Lab@UW, an educational initiative designed to engage leading students to help recognize areas that are ripe for breakthrough innovation. The collaboration is the second X PRIZE Lab in the U.S. This is also the first time the X PRIZE Foundation has collaborated with a graduate school of public policy and management.
Expected to launch in January 2010, quarter-long courses will enable graduate students to research the X PRIZE innovation and philanthropy model and produce ideas and criteria for new X PRIZES. Each course will focus on a single topic from one of the four areas that the X PRIZE Foundation recognizes as some of the world’s biggest challenges – Exploration (Space and Ocean); Life Sciences; Energy & Environment; and Education & Global Development. Additional laboratory work could also address water resource management. At the end of each course, students will present their ideas to senior X PRIZE Foundation leaders and members of its Board of Trustees.
Read the X Prize Press Release
Read coverage in The Seattle Times
Published on October 30, 2009
