RICH WILSON (USA)|
| | Nomination |
The best of the best,
the competitors in the
Vendée Globe. This
is the 66-year-old
American skipper’s
2nd Vendée, but he is nominated
for his brilliant work developing a
full schools’ programme that uses his
race to educate, not just about the
‘usual’ things, like cleaner oceans, but
with a complete school curriculum,
all pre-packed for teachers and ready
to download and dial-in. A teacher
by vocation, Rich is also a Harvard
and MIT double graduate... it shows
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| Why they won |
| ‘Doing the hardest race again for all the right reasons’ – Win
Fowler; ‘Cool, calm and knowledgeable about pretty much
everything, these adventures of his motivate many, many others,
the old as well as the young!!!’ – Tom Robinson; ‘To undertake the
most challenging sailing race in the world at the age of 66, and
then to take one million kids around with you… just wow!’ – Les
Richter; ‘Love all of the work he does for education, plus how he is
pushing himself at his age… an inspiring man’ – Charles McCaffrey. |
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