Congress COMPETES

The America Creating Opportunities To Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act (America COMPETES Act) was reauthorized by the 111st Congress. I admittedly don't know much about these prizes and will be looking closer at them in the near future. Here's a link to various prizes the government's offering (the core of the law's been around since 2007; it looks like the reauthorization, among other things, increased the role of prizes).