There's "virtual" millions to be won or lost, and even a cash prize for the winner.
Out of these, 20 will make it through to compete in the desert marathon for the cash prize.
If you win the lottery or other cash prize and decline it you may be able to avoid the income.
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On the downside, college students are working on a project for no compensation, except for a chance at a cash prize.
Which is how Onyok came to receive two cars, a million-peso cash prize, a house with a plot of land -- and a pension for life.
It is a huge honour (and a large cash prize) to be named the Calypso Monarch, the person chosen in national judging for their musical performances.
Though they haven't yet won a major cash prize, NYU-Poly students are currently participating in "bug bounty" programs for companies like eBay, PayPal, Google Chrome and Samsung.
The first person to correctly identify where the lost ring is located wins not only the cash prize but a two-day (one night) trip to New York.
The award carries a cash prize of USD 8, 000 and will be handed out to the Nabana community through Change Initiatives, a Kolkata-based NGO which is implementing the UNESCO Nabanna project in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Insurance giant AllState, which has worked with Kaggle before, is offering a large, undisclosed cash prize for the algorithm that best predicts which customers are going to renew their car-insurance policies when they have six months left on their plan.
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It was only a few months ago that DARPA initiated their ambitious Robotics Challenge that reserves a cash prize for a (probably) humanoid robot that can drive to a disaster area and perform several rescue functions including breaking through rubble and closing off a leaky pipe.
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Although he draws too much on his earlier writings, Peter Nichols in a fine new book suggests that the rot of sponsorship set in here: a trophy of a golden globe and a cash prize offered by the Sunday Times for, respectively, the first and the fastest circumnavigation.
According to federal prosecutors, Bah participated in a conspiracy to defraud U.S. residents out of millions of dollars by deceiving them into believing they won a large cash sweepstakes prize.
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The two I received were dangerous in they they were designed to get me to go to a site where I would be encouraged to reveal more personal data so that they can confirm I deserve cash or a prize that, of course, I will never receive.
There is no cash alternative and the prize cannot be sold or transferred in any circumstances.
Their prize package included a cash investment, office space, and business services from several New Orleans based business to help grow Digital Tip Jar into a viable business.
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Efforts to revive exploration of the moon also are being commissioned by private companies, lured in part by the cash and prestige of winning an X Prize.
Second, governments should not pick winners or give out extensive subsidies. (Translation: Ethanol is a bad idea, and other existing "renewables, " such as wind power, are unlikely to ever be more than a niche source.) Better to have a small carbon tax to place a price floor for competing technologies, and offer large cash prizes, similar to the X-Prize for private space flight, for specified energy breakthroughs.
The ten contestants, all aspiring fashion video bloggers, hope to claim a prize package of clothes, accessories, cash and their own slot on the channel.
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Each Nobel prize includes a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash award.
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