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XPRIZE award
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- Recently, Kitkit School from the U.S. and onebillion from the U.K. were declared co-winners of the XPRIZE.
- A team from Bengaluru was among the five finalists.
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- XPRIZE award: It is a coveted international award funded by future-looking entrepreneurs, billionaires and philanthropists who have banded together with the goal of making the world a better place through technology.
- Participation:(1) Nearly 200 teams from 40 countries entered the competition, jumping at the chance to become the latest winner of an XPRIZE.(2) Elon Musk announced the winners honouring all the finalists.
- Total XPRIZE for Global Learning:(1) It is funded by Mr. Musk. It was worth $15 million, with each finalist getting $1 million just for making it to the final round.(2) The winners additionally receive $5 million each.
- Goal or final aim of competition:(1) The goal was to develop open-sourced software, put it on tablets donated by Google and have thousands of children in 170 remote villages in Tanzania test it.(2) The five finalists, which also included teams from New York, Pittsburgh and Bengaluru, spent 15 months refining the software.(3) They had to develop programmes filled with games that could grab children’s attention and then, like teachers do, use drawings, letters, numbers and sounds to teach them to teach themselves to read, write and do arithmetic.
- Open-sourced software: All five finalists developed functional, open-sourced software that will be put on the web so everybody can use it.
Source
The Hindu