What is the Singapore Prize?

The Singapore Prize lottery has generated tremendous international buzz. It is incredibly popular and its jackpots can grow to be large amounts quickly; over 58% of Singapore’s population have participated this past year alone! Not only is this lottery well-known; winning one can also be extremely exciting! Winners of Singapore prizes will receive an enormous sum of cash that will allow them to live an excellent life and assist their family if necessary. It also affords them a chance to live in one of Singapore’s nicer areas – making life much better and giving them reason for prideful bragging. This year marks the inaugural competition to include an intellectually disabled artists category; judges hope that its inclusion will encourage other organizations to include similar competitions for intellectually disabled artists. Winners of Singapore Prize will receive both cash prizes as well as a commission to produce artwork for an exhibition; this will allow these artists to experience different forms of media while showing off their talents. Prior to now, this award only recognised books. Now however, it has been expanded to encompass multimedia and artistic historical works as well. A new arts and multimedia category will rotate with book category over six-year cycles; starting with 2025-2027 competition it will coincide with NUS History Prize competition. This year’s awards ceremony was co-hosted by Singapore in partnership with Temasek Trust and GenZero – Prince William’s global initiative launched to protect and restore our planet in 2020. Accion Andina, GRST, WildAid Marine Program, S4S Technologies and Boomitra were announced as this year’s Earthshot Prize recipients at a gala awards ceremony held in Singapore. The Singapore Prize is a contest designed to recognize Singaporean creativity and innovation. It aims to uphold and foster values associated with Singapore’s spirit – values such as equality and diversity, religious harmony, meritocracy, pragmatism and resilience – as well as promote education, community involvement, innovation as well as artistic endeavour and cultural contributions. Held since 1992 with more than 80 past winners.