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Friday, November 13 at 8:00pm - Cotton Candy Cannon: An Awesom...
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Saturday, October 17 at 7:00pm - Meet the Awesome Foundation
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Thursday, July 16 at 7:00pm
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The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, in partnership with Boston Urban Exchange, Cordially Invite You To...
THE REMOTE CONTROL POLLUTION-FIGHTING ARMADA
An Awesome Foundation Award Ceremony with November Fellow Lee Altman
Friday, November 13th, 2009
8:00 PM - 9:30 -- Award Ceremony and Presentation at Microsoft... NERD, 11th Floor (http://microsoftcambridge.com/)
IMPORTANT: Be sure to bring a photo ID to this part, you'll need it to check in pass security at NERD.
Join the Micro-Trustees as we celebrate and award our 4th Fellowship! Our November Fellow Lee will be discussing her scheme to experiment with a cheap DIY pod-boat that could be used to naturally clean up NYC's notoriously polluted East River. We'll also be hearing from some of our Awesome Fellows from previous months about how their projects are progressing and how people can participate. For more details about Lee's project -- see here: http://j.mp/40xEMd.
10:00 - Midnight -- Post-Award Reception @ Cambridge Brewing Company (http://cambridgebrewing.com/)
Then, once the big check is awarded, join us over at the nearby Cambridge Brewing Company for the post-award party to meet our fellow and micro-trustees! We've teamed up this month with our friends over at Boston Urban Exchange -- they're an informal gathering of planners, architects, urban designers, developers, ethnologists, technologists, entrepreneurs, policy-makers, artists and all else who care about urban development in the Boston/Cambridge region. In other words, they kick major behinds and we're thrilled to be co-hosting this party with them, come and meet them! (For more on their previous events, see here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=14
IMPORTANT NOTE: Even if you don't get a chance to make it to our award ceremony, you're still invited to attend the after-award festivities at the Cambridge Brewing Company. Definitely join us! Also, if you're looking for free drinks -- talk to the micro-trustees and the good folks from BUX, they'll have some drink tickets they've been authorized to give out :).
AF extends a huge thank you to Microsoft for the venue, and Whole Foods for providing snacks for the event.
An Awesome Foundation Award Ceremony (NOTE -- Two Locations!)
Time:8:00PM Friday, November 13th
Location:Microsoft NERD and Cambridge Brewing Company
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***NOTE: THIS EVENT IS IN A DIFFERENT LOCATION THAN IT USUALLY IS***
The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences and The Information Superhighway Cordially Invite You To...
COTTON CANDY CANNON: THE WEAPON OF THE FUTURE
An Awards Ceremony & Party for the Awesome Foundation
October 17th, 2009, 7:00 PM - 12:00
Betahouse, ...13 Magazine Street, Cambridge MA (Central Square)
A venerable institution founded in June 2009, The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences gives monthly $1,000 fellowships to projects that advance the interest of Awesomeness in our universe. There are no requirements for applying, no definite criteria for deciding the winner, and no limitations beyond the necessity for being awesome. The winners receive the money in cash, check, or gold doubloons.
This month, we are extremely proud to award our October Awesome Fellowship to Josh Gordonson (http://www.instructables.com/member/T3h_
You can read more about the proposal here: http://j.mp/5KKow
Come celebrate with us, meet the fellow and our micro-trustees, and hear about the plans to set the scheme into motion. We'll talk and answer any questions about how you can apply for the next round of Awesome grants coming out in October. And we'll also be giving the latest update on our previously funded Awesome Fellowships.
NOTE: the price for this event is free. You can expect beverages, food, ideas, cool people, and a big ceremonial check.
To submit to be the Awesome Fellow for October, please drop us a line by the 15th at: http://awesomefoundation.org.
For all you completionists, we're also cross-posted on Upcoming: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4572513/
Time:7:00PM Saturday, October 17th
Location:Betahouse
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The Awesome Foundation and Information Superhighway are co-hosting an award ceremony for our September Awesome Fellow Greg Kapfhammer, who plans to launch a forty day competition to create badass data visualization.
Join us for drinks and celebration on Friday, September 12th...!
The party is also posted on Upcoming:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4413857/
This Saturday!
Location:Berkman Squared
Time:8:00PM Saturday, September 12th
Awesome Foundation Hey look, we have a blog: http://blog.awesomefoundation.org
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The Awesome Foundation is extremely proud to award its first ever grant to Hansy Better, professor at Rhode Island School of Design and all around architect extraordinaire. Based on her interest in “bringing ...
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The Awesome Foundation and Information Superhighway are co-hosting an award ceremony for our first ever grant winner, Hansy Better, who plans to design and build a huge hammock in Boston Common.
Join us for drinks and celebration on Friday, August 7th!
The party is also posted on Upcoming:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4170135
Honoring the Forwarding of Awesome in our Universe
Location:Berkman Squared
Time:8:00PM Friday, August 7th
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We support people doing awesome things in the world. Every month we give out a grant. If you have an awesome idea, let us know.
Awesome Foundation We're announcing the first recipient on August 1! And on the same day we're opening up our August round!
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If you're interested in learning more about the Awesome Foundation, meeting some of the folks involved, or mixing it up with other "micro-geniuses", we're having an information session at BetaHouse on the 16th.
Hope you can make it!
Cross-posted on Upcoming: http://bit.ly/DEDt7
Time:7:00PM Thursday, July 16th
Location:BetaHouse
Awesome Foundation
If you're interested in learning more about the Awesome Foundation, meeting some of the folks involved, or mixing it up with other "micro-geniuses", we're having an information session at BetaHouse on the 16th.
Hope you can make it!
Cross-posted on Upcoming: http://bit.ly/DEDt7
Time:7:00PM Thursday, July 16th
Location:BetaHouse
