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Another year at Cipriani's downtown for the 9/11 Museum and Memorial Dinner. It was awesome to capture Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson.
Photographer Ben Hider
Dunkin Donuts Joy in Childhood Foundation Gala at The Edison Ballroom in New York City on September 14, 2017.
Event Photographer Ben Hider
The Pierre Gala Photographer New York City
The Pierre Gala Photographer New York City
The Pierre Gala Photographer New York City
The Pierre Gala Photographer New York City
The Pierre Gala Photographer New York City
The Pierre Gala Photographer New York City
IIE Gala at the Pierre Hotel in New York City on September 28, 2016.
Photographer Ben Hider
Here's a rare behind the scenes look at me working. A huge thanks to Hal Horowitz for helping out last night and capturing this image of my strange photographer crouch.
Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester
Qualcomm collaborates with IIE to manage the WeTech program, which helps women and girls enter and succeed in technology careers, with the goal of enhancing women’s talent and skills needed to fuel technological and economic growth. WeTech inspires girls and women, from 5th grade to adulthood, to connect with each other, to learn about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and to enhance their own technology skills with which they will build a better tomorrow. In China, India, the U.S, and soon Taiwan through an expanded partnership, WeTech links girls and women to technology-related training and to mentors that help prepare them to enter and succeed in high-paying technology careers.
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Throughout the football season, records are broken, titles are won, and champions are made, but perhaps the most bountiful memories are supplied by the magnetic December dinner, which annually fills the Grand Ballroom of New York City's Waldorf Astoria.
Since 1958, more than 1,600 of the game's most enthusiastic supporters have gathered each year to witness this showcase and honor those who embody the spirit of the game: dynamic business, military and community leaders; national scholar-athletes; and former greats of the game who will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
This black-tie affair is a homecoming for the football fraternity as the audience is graced with former and current coaches, Hall of Famers from yesteryear and generous supporters of the foundation and its mission.
Several awards are presented every year at the dinner. They include the Gold Medal, the highest award the Foundation bestows, the Distinguished American Award, the National Scholar-Athlete Awards, presented by Fidelity Investments, and the highlight of the evening - the induction of the Hall of Fame Class.
Of the nearly $1 million that the Foundation awards annually, more than $300,000 is awarded during this grand event to the NFF National Scholar-Athletes, who are each awarded $18,000 postgraduate scholarships, with many receiving more depending on the area of study. Also that evening, the winner of the William V. Campbell Trophy, presented by Fidelity Investments and hosted by the NYAC, the highest academic award in the country presented to a senior football player, is revealed for the first time.