Empowering Young Minds Everywhere: Five Teams Advance to Final Round of $15 Million Global Learning Xprize

Empowering Young Minds Everywhere: Five Teams Advance to Final Round of $15 Million Global Learning Xprize
Press Release, Global Learning Xprize, 2017/09/25
So here is what Silicon Valley finders are spending their money on in a bid to disrupt education. "The Global Learning Xprize will help prove that with the right resources, children can teach themselves to read, write and do arithmetic." Here are the finalists:

• CCI (New York) is developing a platform to enable non-coders to develop sequential instructional programs
• Chimple (Bangalore) is developing instructional games and stories for literacy and numeracy
• KitKit School (Berkeley) is developing a learning program with a game-based core
• oneBillion (London) is developing learning activities with continuous monitoring
• RoboTutor (Pittsburgh) is using some Carnegie Mellon reserach for an unspecified product

Each team is getting a $1 million startup grant. More...