Archive: education
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Project | edRover
Our idea: edRover is a location-aware mobile app that makes school fundraising fun while helping drive the local economy. edRover allows parents, students and educators to find nearby businesses that offer funds for school supplies and special benefits to the user just for checking-in to sponsored locations. Users can also shop through the app to ... more -
Project | Nine, health education and teens
With over 750,000 teen pregnancies annually in the United States, nearly a third of them not carried to term, Nine – a contemporary and courageous new scripted series produced by the Public Internet Channel will examine the all too real consequences of this life changing phenomenon from a teen father’s point of view. http://pic.tv/9ine/ Along ... more -
Idea | “Showing Up” The Perfect Attendance App
Use RFID to create a time-saving attendance monitoring system. At the same time, include ways to further involved parents in their childrens’ education. ... more -
Blog | STEM Challenge Voting is Starting!
The Cooney Center’s STEM Challenge voting is officially under way! Today, the STEM Challenge released its list of contenders for the top prize in the contest and YOU get to choose who wins. The STEM Challenge, run by the Cooney Center, seeks to inspire interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math amongst young people by ... more -
App | MyPrePal
A mobile game that lets you practice the latest SAT® and PSAT® test prep techniques by comprehensively guiding you through the step-by-step process of solving questions. ... more -
App | College Search
A shakable app that helps you find a school for you based on location, topic of study, and price. It gives you updated information about 4,000 four- and two-year colleges and scholarship information. ... more -
Blog | Ah, to be a sixth-grader again…
Could a student complete a course of study entirely within a video game — perhaps one that she helped design herself? Games easily induce the state of flow so critical for high mental performance. And kids certainly don’t need bribing to play. If a child works through all the problems at different levels of a ... more -
Blog | Happiness, health, and prosperity- on a smart phone?
There are currently over 160,000 apps available on the iphone and android combined, not to mention all of the other smart phones. What free apps are essential to the basics–happiness, health, education, career, housing and prosperity? Happiness Maximize Your Happiness There are not many apps on the market yet that claim to help you reach ... more