The prizes are presented by genuine Nobel Laureates, originally at a ceremony in a lecture hall at MIT. The ceremony is followed a few days later by the Ig Informal Lectures in which laureates have the opportunity to explain their achievements and their relevance to the general public.
If such explanations become too longwinded, they are interrupted by the cries of Miss Sweety Poo (or Sweety-Poo), a little girl who repeatedly cries out "Please stop. I'm bored" in a high-pitched voice. The awards ceremony is traditionally closed with the words: "If you didn't win a prize—and especially if you did—better luck next year!"
Ishii Sensei and I taught our international course kids about the Ignobel awards because a Japanese lady just won one. Mayu Yamamoto won the chemistry prize for extracting vanilla flavour from cow dung!
We encouraged the students to think about funny things they would research or invent if they wanted to win an Ignobel award. Here are my favourties:
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