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.