A competition bringing together youth, programmers, designers, and educators to develop prototypes for social tools, including apps, badges, and curriculum in pursuit of a better Web.
Up to $10,000 per award.
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Project:Connect - Summer Youth Programming Competition
Awards: up to $10,000
Deadline: June 10, 2013, 5pm PST
Supporting summer learning events for youth -- like maker workshops, hackathons, and pop-up events -- focused on creating, testing, and investigating ways to make the web a better place for all.
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Open Competition on Digital Tools for Democracy will be announced on soon.
Digital Media + Learning
Competition 5
Just as generations before us harnessed the tools of their time, we must use the web to ensure education and democracy fit the digital age. DML Competition 5 is about helping young people hack a better web and use it to make learning more relevant -- to real life and real work, to each learner’s passion, and to the opportunities of tomorrow. More...
Born This Way Foundation
Play Brave
Born This Way Foundation’s overarching strategy revolves around a series of initiatives that are each incorporated into our model: Online, On the Road, and Down the Street. In light of the Foundation’s three pillars of Safety, Skills, and Opportunity, BTWF works to foster a safer, more supportive community Online. More...
Summer of Making and Connecting
Making learning more relevant – connecting learning to people's interests, to real life, real work, real communities, and to the demands and opportunities of the digital age. More...
Connected Learning
Connected Learning is a set of principles designed to nurture the kind of students that can thrive in the 21st century. By the time today’s first graders graduate high school, there will be whole new industries we can’t even imagine today. Connected Learning fosters the adaptive, lifelong learners that can flourish in a world of rapid technological change. More...
Project:Connect - Hack for a Better Web
Hackathon to create a more equitable, social, and participatory internet. Work in teams to develop social tools — apps, badges, curricula, and other prototypes — that help make for a better Web, and especially to make young people’s online experiences more civil, more empowering and more firmly under their own control. More...
