In the Spring of 2007, MIT began awarding two yearly prizes (a $700 First Prize and a $500 Second Prize) to graduate and undergraduate students who convincingly imagine a future human enterprise. The prize was founded and endowed by Brian Mulconrey.
This competition is named the Enterprise Poets Prize for Imagining a Future – Submissions can be essays, short stories, videos, plays, or poems, that convincingly imagine a future human enterprise. The word enterprise is used in the broadest possible sense to cover products, processes, companies, industries, forms of government, social movements, artistic forms – any human endeavor. (Continued…)