This is totally fake, that money would come in scholarship form. However, I have pulled this off when teachers tried to have us compete for smaller rewards. We could all just like, not work and everyone be guaranteed something instead of all of us doing a thing and one person getting the full reward and the rest getting jack shit. It was late elementary school and the reward was just like, a big thing of candy or something. Got to use it as an example in my final social studies paper in high school where we had to do an essay on the fundamental nature of competition, I guess I was the only thoroughly against guy and one of the few teachers I really respected said it changed his views, dude was pushing 60 and a pretty smart guy. Wish I still had a copy, I was pretty on fire there. Really all I had to do was contrast it with cooperation, show the obvious math of who gets what and once my 17 year old ass had that dawn on me I was off to the damn races. Something really clicked that never unclicked and getting confirmed that I was on the ball in a big way by a pretty Whiplash style teacher (he got fucked out of retirement when a house he bought had a sewage treatment plant built across the street and he then moved cause of stank and sold the house at a major loss, and really did try his ass off at teaching but expected a degree of discipline that most kids couldn't handle, the school had laptops avaliable basically at all times to haul into classes but no one used em cause it was 2007, so he got em out for every class, gave us every single question for the entire semester in one bigass folder and said 'here ya go, you know where the library is, I teach 5 classes and will be grading papers, if you wanna talk to me about anything that comes up, I'm right here. Ya got 4 months to handle this, go off.' I LOVED IT. Especially for social studies. I got to blast through the writing down populations or whatever first and then really sink my teeth into stuff I wanted to know about. Other kids played games on the computer. I gave a lot of fucks about the subject so I wanted to do the work but also found out I do my best learning independently but with access to people who know what they're talking about.)