I offer $50 USD first prize and $25 for the runner-up for the best twelve paragraph essay on the topic of whether college students are likely to pay more in income taxes over their lifetime than the present value of the entire amount of their college tuition, room, and board expenses.
This contest is open only to the top 50% of participants in the Wikimedia Education Program or WikiEd Foundation's student editors.
If there are any objections to this contest, please let me know. If there are any reasons it shouldn't be communicated to the eligible, please let me know. I ask both foundations to match my award, taking the prizes to $150 and $75 if they agree. Thank you!
Sincerely, James Salsman
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 1:27 AM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
I offer $50 USD first prize and $25 for the runner-up for the best twelve paragraph essay on the topic of whether college students are likely to pay more in income taxes over their lifetime than the present value of the entire amount of their college tuition, room, and board expenses.
This contest is open only to the top 50% of participants in the Wikimedia Education Program or WikiEd Foundation's student editors.
If there are any objections to this contest, please let me know. If there are any reasons it shouldn't be communicated to the eligible, please let me know. I ask both foundations to match my award, taking the prizes to $150 and $75 if they agree. Thank you!
No. At the Wiki Education Foundation, we focus on teaching students to write neutral, fact-based encyclopedia articles instead of essays; our asking them to write essays would be counterproductive given the mission of our program, our organization, and the Wikimedia movement. We will not support this effort, and ask that you do not reach out to them on your own.
LiAnna
To echo LiAnna and Wiki Education's take, the Wikimedia Foundation's education team support activities that get students to contribute to Wikimedia projects as part of their learning. While the contexts may vary from country to country and classroom to classroom, the students contribute according to Wikimedia project norms (neutrality, citations, etc). This type of proposed assignment/competition seems out of scope and we could not support it on our end either.
Best, Tighe
-- Tighe Flanagan Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation tflanagan@wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:52 AM, LiAnna Davis lianna@wikiedu.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 1:27 AM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
I offer $50 USD first prize and $25 for the runner-up for the best twelve paragraph essay on the topic of whether college students are likely to pay more in income taxes over their lifetime than the present value of the entire amount of their college tuition, room, and board expenses.
This contest is open only to the top 50% of participants in the Wikimedia Education Program or WikiEd Foundation's student editors.
If there are any objections to this contest, please let me know. If there are any reasons it shouldn't be communicated to the eligible, please let me know. I ask both foundations to match my award, taking the prizes to $150 and $75 if they agree. Thank you!
No. At the Wiki Education Foundation, we focus on teaching students to write neutral, fact-based encyclopedia articles instead of essays; our asking them to write essays would be counterproductive given the mission of our program, our organization, and the Wikimedia movement. We will not support this effort, and ask that you do not reach out to them on your own.
LiAnna
-- LiAnna Davis Director of Programs; Deputy Director Wiki Education www.wikiedu.org _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education