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The Pirelli Award, the first Internet multimedia award

Pirelli Internetional Award: XI Edition

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The award for Chemistry, has been assigned to “Chemistry Comes Alive!” (http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/
jcesoft/cca/CCA0/SAMPMOVS.HTM), an archive of about two thousand chemistry video-experiments published by the Journal of Chemical Education Software. This project, that won the 15.000 euro prize, has been developed and produced with a grant from the National Science Foundation and presents itself as an innovative aide toward the teaching of chemistry in schools and universities.

The Pirelli Award for the Mathematics category has been assigned to David Gale of the University of California, Berkeley who presented his “Math Site” (http://mathsite.math.berkeley.edu/
main.html), a multimedia work that introduces the wider public to theories, applications and mathematical curiosities through experiments and interactive games. This work won a prize of 15.000 euro.

For Life sciences, the prize of 15.000 euro has been awarded to the University of Cincinnati for “Reproductive Physiology Learning Modules” (http://www.aitl.uc.edu/itc/ReproPhys/), an e-learning system that, utilizing 64 animations, describes the male and female reproductive apparatus. The multimedia product is subdivided into educational units and is introduced by a video that illustrates the various sections.

For the Premio Pirelli per l’Italia (“Pirelli Award for Italy”), reserved for projects authored by Italian nationals, the winner is the publishing house Federico Motta with its multimedia product “La Bussola della conoscenza” (“The compass of knowledge”; http://www.mottaeditore.it/
home.php?_idnodo=837), which introduces students and primary and secondary grade teachers to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, through a virtual journey that tracks the one originally made in South America by the great British scientist in 1831. The project was awarded a prize of 10.000 euro.

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