Award+for+Change

=The Award=

TED prize-winning wishes
Sarah Parcak 2016 award "I wish for us to discover the millions of unknown archaeological sites across the globe. By building an online citizen science platform and training a 21st century army of global explorers, we'll find and protect the world's hidden heritage, which contains clues to humankind's collective resilience and creativity. TED initiative:GlobalXplorer TED: GlobalXplorer
 * American Egyptologist and pioneer of satellite archaeology.

Sugata Mitra

2013 award
"My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder. Help me build the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online. I also invite you, wherever you are, to create your own miniature child-driven learning environments and share your discoveries." TED initiative:School in the Cloud
 * A computer professional who began by putting a computer where children who had never seen one before could explore and teach each other. He now teaches his philosophy of minimally invasive education at Newcastle University

Jamie Oliver 2010 award "I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity." TED initiative:Food Revolution
 * British chef //who// educates the public toward his causes including “pink slime” which McDonalds no longer uses.

Sylvia Earle 2009 award " I wish you would use all means at your disposal — films! expeditions! the web! more! — to ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas, hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean, the blue heart of the planet." TED initiative:Mission Blue
 * American Oceanographer, founder of Mission Blue Foundation. Sylvia Earle is concerned with marine ecosystems and educating the public about them and how people are affecting them.

Dave Eggers 2008 award "I wish that you — you personally and every creative individual and organization you know — will find a way to directly engage with a public school in your area, and that you’ll then tell the story of how you got involved, so that within a year we have 1,000 examples of innovative public-private partnerships." TED initiative:Once Upon a School
 * American writer who co-wrote the film version of Maurice Sendak’s //Where the Wild Things Are//. Dave Edggers has also written several books. He is the co-founder of //Voices of Witnesses// which is a recording of oral histories from around the world to let others know about human right's issues.

E.O.Wilson 2007 award "I wish that we will work together to help create the key tool that we need to inspire preservation of Earth’s biodiversity: the Encyclopedia of Life." TED initiative: =Product Rubric =
 * Harvard University Professor specializing in entomology (insects), evolutionary biology and sociobiology. EO Wilson was the the first to discover and research that ants communicate through chemical signals. In 1985 he theorized the need for biodiversity.