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Gen Z Hearts AHA

Connection Cafe

We all had the " An apple a day keeps the doctor away " motto ingrained into our heads as children. It's August, school's back in session, and besides traffic being a pain in the you-know-where again, children are back in the classroom with their thinking caps on. What I'm reminiscing-ly trying to get at here is.we

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."

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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children. She’s currently working on “spatial quantile regression” and has learned at Benetech how to use statistics to address real-life problems. He followed up by launching another company helping startups find funding, write business plans, etc.