represents “the culmination of my work, from the aviation world to the education world, to the world of prize philanthropy.” He adds, “It represents the germination of an idea that I really want to take around the world.”
Now if he can just find someone to fund the prize. “What we need now are sponsors to step forward, that want to be involved in aviation and in education,” Lindbergh says.
Lindbergh, who works as a commercial pilot, flight instructor, artist, public speaker, and publicist, says that while he has a 
great name, he had to borrow $10,000 from his mom to get the CSA and LEAP programs started. The son of Jon Lindbergh and Barbara Robbins also serves as chairman and director of the Lindbergh Foundation, and serves as a member of the board of trustees for the X Prize Foundation, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit that boosted the development of private spacecraft by organizing the Ansari X Prize. The $10 million prize was claimed by SpaceShipOne, a rocket plane designed by aerospace legend Burt Rutan and his Mojave, CA-based company, Scaled Composites, with extensive financial backing from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Lindbergh provided this outline of the four awards that make up the Lindbergh Electric Aircraft Prize:
—Best Electric Aircraft, with emphasis on practicality. The design can be
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Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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