A few days ago the MacArthur Foundation announced that they had selected the winners of their Digital Media and Learning Competition. We haven’t heard anything. The blog post says that much legal work needs to be done to “prepare the winners to meet their public on Feb 21st.”
Seems like legal work would require participation and therefore notification of the winners. Meaning, if that’s the case, that not hearing means not winning.
Bah.
We don’t know for sure, of course. We won’t know until the announcement on February 21st.
Hope, for our one-shot grant/lottery ticket strategy, fades.
This brings us to Plans B – G. The show will definitely go on.
An interesting point of pride with this process: “transparency” is a buzzword in business that is starting to filter (slowly!) into academia.
To my knowledge, (and with some semi-regular Google searching) we are the only one of the 1010 submissions to the competition that posted our submission publicly on our blog. It’s a distinction that we are excited about – though I’m not sure if it’s valued elsewhere. Oh well.
I, like everyone else that took the time to put together a proposal, feel our project is important. The result of this competition does not change my view of our project in any way.
Feb. 21 will be an interesting day to review the winners and make comparisons. There will certainly be some extrapolation – we will try to discern from the tea leaves what it was that the judges valued.
I’m sure we will discuss what we could have done differently . . . though I know we put together the best proposal we could at the time.
