There was to be a first prize of five shillings, and a second prize of a half crown, for the best collection of wild flowers, with their names upon them.
In addition to the cash prize, winning the award means that the judges deemed the Yieldex solution an original way of meeting a marketplace need using AWS.
As a condition for receiving any prize, the prospective winning teams are required to submit a manuscript describing the winning team's Algorithm and methods used to generate the team's output.
Bankers' fat pay packets have attracted much criticism, but a public sector system that does not reward high achievers may be a much bigger problem for America.
It's not only children who display this kind of reaction to rewards, though, subsequent studies have shown a similar effect in all sorts of different populations, many of them grown-ups.
Weight control psychologist Abby Aronowitz, PhD agrees: "If a response to a stimulus is rewarded continually, that response quickly becomes connected to the stimulus."
Other people believe that getting a reward encourages kids to do housework, and it also teaches them real world lessons about how we need to work to get money.
Other people believe that getting money or other rewards makes kids do chores happily and it also teaches them real-world lessons about what we need to do to make money.