The winner of this year’s singapore prize will receive $1.5 million, while the second-placed team will take home $500,000. This is one of the largest amounts that has ever been won in a Singapore Pools Group 1 lottery draw. The prize was split among eight winning tickets purchased online via the Toto results website and at Giant supermarket outlets in Pioneer Mall and FairPrice at The Woodleigh Mall, according to a spokesman for Singapore Pools.
The top four winners in each category will be presented with a trophy and medallion at an awards ceremony in February next year, which will also be open to the public. In addition to the monetary prizes, the award winners will get a chance to be mentored by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and to have their stories told in the media.
In a statement, EDB said the Singapore Prize 2023 is “designed to recognise Singapore’s most talented young talents in a wide range of fields, from entrepreneurship and innovation to social service and sporting achievements”. The prize’s jury is made up of distinguished individuals from the business, education, government and media sectors, including Wee Kim Wee, former president of the Republic of Singapore; Hannah Waddingham, editor-in-chief of The Straits Times; A. W. Kirby, general manager of Rothmans of Pall Mall, Singapore; and Francis Thomas, principal of St Andrew’s School.
Kishore Mahbubani, NUS Asia Research Institute Distinguished Fellow, who mooted the idea for the prize in a recent Straits Times column, says: “The finalists we’ve seen this year – an Indian maker of solar-powered dryers, a soil carbon marketplace and groups that work to make electric car batteries cleaner, restore Andean forests and deter illegal fishing – show that hope does remain. The world needs these solutions today.”
The NUS Singapore History Prize is a new initiative that aims to spur interest in Singapore’s rich and complex past. It calls for non-fiction works about the country’s history to be submitted from January. The works — penned in English or translated into the language of choice by creators of any nationality – can be about any aspect of Singapore’s history.
Winners of the prize will also be invited to attend a series of events organised by Temasek as part of an Earthshot Week, starting Monday (6 November). The programme will include a global summit, where leaders and businesses from around the world can connect with the Prize winners and finalists to accelerate their solutions and bring about tangible action to repair our planet.
The IPS Awards Committee invites the physics community to nominate outstanding and innovative contributions for the institute’s awards, which are named after renowned scientists or people with strong Singaporean connections. Nominees must have done physics related works in Singapore for at least two years and must be Elected IPS Members, although they may not be members prior to or upon nomination. The IPS Council reserves the right not to award any prizes in a particular year if there are no suitable Nominees.