[game_edu] Apply for Cooney Center Prizes

[Susan Gold]

This is a competition that offers cash prizes and planning support for  
early stage concepts in educational technology for kids 6-9. They are  
seeking developers of all stripes, including game design students and  
researchers.

Apply to the Cooney Center Prizes for Innovation in Children’s Learning
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop is accepting  
applications for the inaugural Cooney Center Prizes for Innovation in  
Children’s Learning, a national competition intended identify,  
inspire, nurture, and scale breakthrough ideas in children’s digital  
media and learning.  The program will annually award cash prizes and  
provide ongoing business planning support to innovators in children’s  
educational media.

The Cooney Center is challenging innovators in two categories:  
Breakthroughs in Mobile Learning and Breakthroughs in Literacy  
Learning. Up to five finalists in each category will be invited to  
pitch their ideas to media industry and education leaders at an event  
held at this year’s E3 Expo. This year's prizes include $50,000  
towards prototype development in the Mobile Learning category and  
$10,000 and the opportunity to work with Sesame Workshop to turn a  
literacy idea into a product for national dissemination via Sesame  
Workshop's revival of the iconic literacy show, The Electric Company.


-- 
Susan Gold
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
- J. G. Ballard







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