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Challenges Create Access

What if, at the start of their kindergarten education, you were told that your child’s math score was 21% lower than other students’?

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The SyncUp Colorado Challenge Has Launched!

Skild is proud to announce the launch of the SyncUp Colorado Challenge, a $5 million program designed to provide Colorado’s young people with viable, affordable, alternative pathways to high-quality careers.

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$1 Million 2020 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence

“We believe that skilled trades teachers are heroes who don’t often get the recognition that they deserve,” says Tae Kang, Program Manager of Harbor Freight Tools for Schools — a philanthropic initiative that honors the nation’s most innovative among them. “This program shines a light on their work and their character, not just in their school buildings, but also in their communities.”

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College Persistence Challenge Winner Announced

The goal of the SEO College Persistence Challenge was to find new and creative solutions to some of the biggest barriers to graduating from college in four years: mental health, community, and financial aid. The challenge required applicants to develop solutions to reflect the gaps and needs of first generation, low income, high potential students.

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LAUNCHED: The College Persistence Challenge

SEO Scholars transforms public high school students into confident college graduates. They aim to create a more equitable society by closing the academic and opportunity achievement gap for motivated young people.SEO Scholars has announced the College Persistence Challenge to address some of the biggest barriers to graduating from college in four years. Think you have a solution? They'd love to...

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Launched: The NSF 2026 Idea Machine

The NSF 2026 Idea Machine is a competition to help set the U.S. agenda for fundamental research in science and engineering. Participants can earn prizes and receive public recognition by suggesting the pressing research questions that need to be answered in the coming decade, the next set of “Big Ideas” for future investment by the National Science Foundation (NSF). It's an opportunity for...

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Lumina Foundation Announces 2018 Education Innovation Challenge Prizes

Lumina Foundation Announces 2018 Education Innovation Challenge Prizes

Each winner will receive $25,000 and in-kind support to scale projects that will help increase the share of Americans with education beyond high school

INDIANAPOLIS– The winners of Lumina Foundation’s2018 Education Innovation Challengewere chosen last week during a competition at the Lumina Investing in Future Talent and...

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