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| It was eight months ago - on December
1, 2005 - that Partners HealthCare premiered its giant-screen film,
Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour de France, to Boston schoolchildren
at the Museum of Science. Since that time, a lot has happened. The film,
funded in part by the National Science Foundation, has premiered in
New York and Washington and is now being seen by audiences throughout
U.S. as well as in Melbourne, Paris, and Durban - among other international
cities. It was also the featured film at the annual Presidential Awards
for Excellence in Mathematics & Science Teaching at the Smithsonian
in May.
Wired to Win achieved top honors in the annual awards given by the Association of Educational Publishing for its website (http://www.wiredtowinthemovie.com/) as well as the package of educational materials that accompany the film. The film is also a finalist in the annual Giant Screen Cinema Association award competition, where it is a finalist in every category in which it could compete - including Best Film for Learning and Best Picture. Award winners will be announced in Houston in September. Also being organized as part of the Wired to Win educational effort is a major national conference on science literacy and communications, Science and Society: Closing the Gap, to be held in Boston from January 19-21 and featuring as keynote speaker former Vice President Al Gore, among other noted speakers. For information, visit http://www.scienceandsocietyconference.com/overview.php. For the 7,500 Partners employees and family members who saw the film when it first opened, you may be wondering how the two cyclists featured in the film fared in the just-concluded Tour de France. Frenchman Jimmy Casper won Stage 1 of the Tour and finished 138th. Australian Baden Cooke changed teams at the end of last season; his new team did not receive a wildcard placement for the Tour this year, and so he was unable to compete. |
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