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Makey Awards 2011 Nominee 11: Time Warner Cable, “Connect a Million Minds”

Makey Awards 2011 Nominee 11: Time Warner Cable, “Connect a Million Minds”

In April, 2009, Time Warner Cable, amid mounting concerns about flagging US competency in core technical areas, announced that it would be giving away $100 million to educational programs working in core science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines—the so-called STEM fields. Their Connect a Million Minds initiative, which is scheduled to run until 2013, has already collected almost 400,000 of its stated million-pledge goal.

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Makey Awards 2011 Nominee 07: Parallax, Inc., “Best Education/Outreach Program”

Makey Awards 2011 Nominee 07: Parallax, Inc., “Best Education/Outreach Program”

Founded in 1987 in Rocklin, California, Parallax, Inc. manufactures the famous BASIC Stamp microcontroller. The Stamp has been popular among electronics hobbyists since the early 1990s, thanks to such user-friendly features as an embedded BASIC interpreter.

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Makey Awards 2011 Nominee 03: Volkswagen’s Fun Theory, “Best Education / Outreach Program”

The idea behind Volkswagen’s The Fun Theory program is simple: reward socially useful behaviors by making them into opportunities for play. Or, to quote a great sage, “You find the fun and snap! The job’s a game.”

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