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should we run some type of summer program / event to attract the desired rebels? some structure that benefits the nominators ala Larry's social person inserted in junior year?
This ties into the science fellows thing that we're trying to set up. We were going to bring them in for the summer and the kind of kid we are looking for is the same. We were going to design on online search and an nomination system. I could add to it the Jr. Year search person.
Also, the annual disobedience prize should connect with this too.
lets talk this morning I think the one science. instead of ANTI. anti is good for kids but bad for funding.
OK. Can we talk in a few min?
Can you read two things for me if you have time?
One is the invitation to the selection committee candidates for the disobedience prize and the other this the "design and science" stuff which is "one science" idea written up.
http://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/designandscience
No one wins a Nobel Prize by doing what they're told. The American civil rights movement would not have happened without civil disobedience. India would not have achieved independence without the peaceful but firm disobedience of Gandhi and his people. And the Boston Tea party would not have been the opening act of the American revolution.
The robustness of the MIT Media Lab is in part due to disobedience and the Lab's ability to manifest it in a healthy and creative way. The Media Lab is therefore celebrating the importance of disobedience with an annual prize. Beginning this summer we will confer the Disobedience Award on what we believe is the year's most interesting, creative, impactful and bold act of disobedience in any discipline or geography.
As someone who exemplifies disobedience as an instrument of change I invite you to join our 2016 Disobedience Award selection committee. With your help we will choose the recipient of the prize for the most courageous act of disobedience over the past year. The time commitment will be modest: your nominations for the prize and comments on potential recipients as we work toward a short list. We plan to present the award at the end of the Media Lab's summer symposium on July 21, so the selection process will run from April through June of 2016.
I look forward to working with you!
In disobedience,
Joi