Google Announces Project 10^100 Winners

Kilrah_il writes with news that Google has selected winners for Project 10^100, a contest to find the best ideas to change the world. Among the winners is the Khan Academy, which we've discussed previously. Google is "providing $2 million to support the creation of more courses and to enable the Khan Academy to translate their core library into the world’s most widely spoken languages." The other winning projects are: FIRST, an organization fostering math and science education through team competition; Public.Resource.Org, a government transparency effort focused on online access to public documents; Shweeb, a silly-looking method of human-powered urban transit; and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, a center aimed at promoting graduate-level math and science education in Africa.

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FIRST

[Anonymous Coward]

FIRST, an organization fostering math and science education through team competition

No, FIRST is an organization for National Instruments to push its hardware and software onto children. In college, I assisted a highschool team in the FIRST robotics competition. The teams are required to use National Instruments's Labview (crap software - claims to be a programming language, but isn't) to control their robot. The objective is to get them hooked, at their own detriment, on National Instruments software.

South Africa

[hey]

South Africa is doing OK. Its the rest of Africa that needs the help. Ooops.

Re:Not Enough Hype for the Khan Academy!

[arcade]

I'll stay away from your Flame-bait

I seldomly respond to trolls like you. But let me just say it clear and simple: Go sunbathing.

(Trolls, as we all know, turn into stone in the sun).

This is another way of telling you to go fornicate yourself.