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Google Has Announced The Winners Of Project 10100

By: Dave Davies
2010-09-27

Reminding us that one can dominate marketshare and seek higher-and-higher returns for their investors and still keep their soul " Google has announced the winners of Project 10100 have been announced.  To be considered for the project, organizations and individuals submitted their projects " the only specific criteria being that it had to help as many people as possible.  Google sifted the entries down to what they deemed to be the 16 best and allowed the world to vote

Google has announced the winners of Project 10100
Google has announced the winners of Project 10100

The world voted that the top 5 will split the prize. They are:

Project funded: The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization that provides high-quality, free education to anyone, anywhere via an online library of more than 1,600 teaching videos. We are providing $2 million to support the creation of more courses and to enable the Khan Academy to translate their core library into the worlds most widely spoken languages.

Project funded: FIRST is a non-profit organization that promotes science and math education around the world through team competition. Its mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders by giving them real world experience working with professional engineers and scientists. We are providing $3 million to develop and jump start new student-driven robotics team fundraising programs that will empower more student teams to participate in FIRST.

Project funded: Public.Resource.Org is a non-profit organization focused on enabling online access to public government documents in the United States. We are providing $2 million to Public.Resource.Org to support the Law.Gov initiative, which aims to make all primary legal materials in the United States available to all.

Idea: Drive innovation in public transportProject funded: Shweeb is a concept for short to medium distance, urban personal transport, using human-powered vehicles on a monorail. We are providing $1 million to fund research and development to test Shweebs technology for an urban setting.

Idea: Provide quality education to African studentsProject funded: The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) is a center for math and science education and research in Cape Town, South Africa. AIMS primary focus is a one-year bridge program for recent university graduates that helps build skills and knowledge prior to Masters and PhD study. We are providing $2 million to fund the opening of additional AIMS centers to promote graduate level math and science study in Africa.

Congratulations to the winners, the world and a big thanks to Google.

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About the Author:
Dave Davies is the CEO of Beanstalk Search Engine Optimization, Inc. Beanstalk offers guaranteed SEO services, consulting, link building services and SEO training. Visit their site for more details and be sure to read their SEO blog to keep updated ont he latest goings-on in the world of search.


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