As a result of winning the Gates Energy Innovation Award, you are awarded a growing perpetuity. The first payment will occur in a year and will be for $20 comma 000. You will continue receiving monetary awards annually with each award increasing by 6 percent over the previous award, and these monetary awards will continue forever. If the appropriate interest rate is 12 percent, what is the present value of this award?

The present value of the award is $____.