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We are pleased to announce the launching of a new 6 week course called Energy Game. This course uses digital media and virtual world experiences to engage you in becoming a Sustainability Designer. Click More for additional details about this course.
The Energy Game course is designed for students all over the United States who are ages 11-18. This course has something for everybody...you can play games, meet friends online in a teen virtual world, and at the same time help solve some of the biggest problems facing the world today. The virtual world is called Skoolaborate so you'll become a GCA Skoolaborator - that's someone who collaborates with others during and after school in our cool virtual world.
Click here to check out our web page for a brief video that explains the program in more detail.
The fee for this course is $75. In case you are not completely satisfied with the experience, we will refund the program fee in full. And if you like the experience, you will be able to subscribe to the program and access various modules at an attractive and affordable subscription fee. In addition, the fee charged for this first program will be applied towards the membership.
Ready to register for this exciting new course? Click Register.
We hope you will be part of this exciting new virtual world and be sure to bring your friends along with you!
Announcements
SCI: Sustainable Communities' Initiative
Interested in working for the community? Want to clean the global warming mess, in your own way? We have a rocking track coming up just to enable you to do that! Watch our website for details of this track.
Learn more about SCI Click Here!
GO-DaC: Gaming Olympiad of Disaster and Climate
Global Challenge Award announces a gaming competition, GO-DaC, for children between the age group of 13 to 15. The pilot phase of GO-DaC is being launched in Pune, India. The competition will be
• a computer based gaming competition,
• with minimal fees of INR 150/-,
• first round of which will be held in Pune, India,
• starting from 4th Saturday (22nd) of August 2009,
• winners of which will be given an opportunity to participate in the 'International Climate Action Day' to be held in Copenhagen on 24th October, 2009, i.e. the World Climate Day.
To register for this competition please download the registration form from the link below.
Registration Form
To find out more about GO-DaC, click on the below.
GO-DaC flyer
Please download and take a print of it. Upon filling the essential details in the form, please submit it to the Neeti Solutions Office on the below mentioned address:
Neeti Solutions
5, Parth, Prabhat Road,
Pune- 411004
Maharashtra, India
News published in Indian Express on 15th July 09
For any queries please follow the link to mail us- click here or call us on +91-20-25660564
June 01, 2009: 2009 Winners Announced
Global Challenge Award is proud to announce the winners of 2008-2009 competition. Winners are announced in the following categories
1. Top performing Global Teams - Global Business Plan
2. Top performing Global Teams - Technical Innovation Plan
3. Best Team Work
4. Special recognition - High Performing Individual Students
Winning students are awarded a combination of cash awards, sponsorship for the summer institute at Governor's Institute, Vermont, in the form of tuition and travel. For details of winners click here.
APRIL 16, 2009: Global Challenge awarded $183,000 grant as part of MacArthur Foundation's $2 million for digital media and learning projects.The Stowe, Vermont and Chicago-based Global Challenge Award has been awarded a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, through the Digital Media and Learning Competition managed by the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, HASTAC. The funding is part of $2 million the foundation recently awarded learning and digital projects nationwide.
"The Competition demonstrates that pioneering work often takes place at the edges and sometimes between the most unlikely of collaborators," MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton said. "These projects are true exemplars of how digital media are transforming the way we think and learn, and perhaps even how we participate in our democracy."
Competition is part of MacArthur's $50 million digital media and learning initiative designed to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize and participate in civic life.
The Global Challenge Award is delighted and honored that the MacArthur Foundation has found its approach innovative in the field of participatory learning. Global Challenge Award believes that with the advent of 21rst century technology and skills children are increasingly driving change around the globe. The organization uses the Internet, learning networks and a fast-growing web of educational connections to attract students to its annual competition. Thousands have participated since the GCA's inception in 2005.
APRIL 1, 2009: Global Challenge Award is proud to announce a Strategic Partnership with Neeti Solutions, a Social Enterprise. Neeti is an Indian word meaning "Strategy within an Ethical Framework". Neeti's strategy is to achieve synergy between technology & development to have a sustained positive impact on Human Life. Core to its strategy is leverage of Children as Change Agents. Neeti's mission is to provide computer based learning in the areas of Disaster Management, Emergency Medicine, and Health. Dr. Parag Mankeekar, MD & CEO of Neeti Solutions was awarded the prestigious Ashoka Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurship in October 2008. Together, we have the ability to reach thousands of students globally and scale the impact of our joint activities.
Newsletters
May 2009
April 2009
February 2009
Students Speak
2009
Aman Malik writes "No Wake-Up Call, But a Screaming Siren!".
Read Meghna Das, a Global Challenge Award winner's views on Globalization.
2008
Cogito.org re:Team Green SLIDE reports
Cogito.org re: Ahana Datta writes Using Nanotechnology for Cost Effective Converters Aug 29
Cogito.org re: Yi Pan writes Educating Myself, International Style Aug 21
2007
Cogito.org re: Mingjie Ding's "On My Mind" article "Is the World Really Flat?" Sept 24
Cogito.org re: Yadia's Interview - way to go Yadia! Sept 7
Cogito.org re: Meghna Das writes the first "On My Mind" column "Lights Out!"
Cogito.org re: Blufactors Team Aug 13
Cogito.org re: Yadia Colindres visits the Honduran Vice PresidentAug 16
Cogito.org re: Q&A with Team Innovatech Aug 3
Cogito.org re: Team "Innovatech"Jul 16
2006 and Earlier
Cogito.org - Dec 2006 news release
Media
2009
The Stowe Reporter May 2009
MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition Winners - April 2009
2008
Burlington Free Press - July 2008
First Bell(Engineering news feed) July 2008
2007
Shanghai Evening Postarticle (about Mengjie Ding, 2007 student)
Burlington Free Press, July 11, 2007
The Stowe Reporter 2007
The Hindu
Times Argus April 2007
Burlington Free Press April 2007
2006 and Earlier
The Stowe Reporter June 2006
The Stowe Report September 2005
Papers and Conferences
2008
Microsoft Higher Education White Paper on the "World Game" concept
Presentation at a Symposium on Advanced Learning Technologies in New Brunswick, CA. Here is the Powerpoint titled "Real Virtuality" (large .ppt file)
Global Challenge at national conferences in February and March. Powerpoint of a talk at the American Educational Research Association concerning "21st Century Learners" (large .ppt file)
Multimedia
Download our Brochure
Here is a postcard for copying and printing Front and Back
Over 2600 students from 50 countries registered in 2006-2007! Here are pictures of some of our past year's winners, who came to the University of Vermont Governor's Institute on Engineering (all expenses paid by Global Challenge Award) to meet their teammates and counterparts from around the world.
Globalization
