Prizes and Events Overseen
- The Ansari X PRIZE, the original X PRIZE competition to create a private spaceflight vehicle
- The Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, an engineering competition designed to create a fuel efficient clean car that gets 100 MPGe
- The Archon Genomics X PRIZE, a genomics competition challenging teams to sequence 100 human genomes within 30 days or less
- The Google Lunar X PRIZE, a competition to put a robot on the moon
- The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander X CHALLENGE, a competition to build precise, efficient small rocket systems
- The Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE, a competition inspiring a new generation of innovative solutions that will speed up the cleaning of seawater surface oil resulting from spillage from tankers, ocean platforms, and other sources
- The Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE, a competition to create a portable medical diagnostic device
Read more about this topic: X Prize Foundation
Famous quotes containing the words prizes and/or events:
“She prizes not such trifles as these are.
The gifts she looks from me are packed and locked
Up in my heart, which I have given already,
But not delivered.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one’s way to where the country is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)