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X Prize Pledges $15M for Software That Lets Children Teach Themselves

Posted September 23, 2014 12:54 PM

From WIRED:

The X PRIZE Foundation, the brainchild of entrepreneur and futurist Peter Diamandis, is already working on some of the world's biggest problems, and on Monday, it added another to the list: global education. The post X Prize Pledges $15M for Software That Lets Children Teach Themselves appeared first on WIRED.

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09/23/2014 5:26 PM

The machines that use the software will have to be covert, self powered and bullet proof.

Kids are still getting killed for going to school.

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