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All of our RISE award recipients are working to increase access and interest in STEM fields and CS with diverse student populations. Google is proud to partner with them to reach these deserving students.

2013 North America Award Recipients

2013 Latin America Award Recipients

2013 Europe Award Recipients

2013 Middle East Award Recipients

2013 Africa Award Recipients

Working to Advance African Women Foundation (WAAW) | Nigeria
WAAW Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to increase the pipeline of African girls STEM and CS related fields, and work to ensure that this female talent is engaged in innovation for the African continent. They train volunteer university graduates to run STEM outreach programmes in high schools in Abuja to raise awareness of CS education.

iLab Liberia | Liberia
Operating in Monrovia, iLab provides access to cutting-edge technology, expert IT assistance and a community of individuals leveraging technology for the good of the country. The goals of iLab include giving young Liberian women access to computer programming classes and professional growth resources, provide quality instruction as well as equipment curriculum and internet connectivity, and introduce Liberians with an IT interest to various career paths in the field beyond basic networking and hardware repair.

Ghana Robotics Academy Foundation (GRAF) | Ghana
The mission of GRAF is to design accessible and innovative programs that will excite and motivate young Ghanaians to pursue careers in science, technology and engineering, build self-confidence, knowledge and life skills. They run a programme for girls and students from socio-deprived areas to learn giving them the opportunity to work alongside professional engineers to design, build and program robots to solve real world problems.

Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) | Nigeria
W.TEC is a Nigerian non-governmental organisation working to empower girls and women socially and economically, using information and communication technologies (ICTs). They run a tech camp for Nigerian girls age 11-22, followed by monthly workshops, mentoring and alumni network.

2013 Asia Pacific Award Recipients

Feminist Approach to Technology (FAT) | India
FAT works to create awareness on the issue of women and technology through seminars and workshops for women and girls to increase their access to STEM education. They run a Tech Center for adolescent girls from underprivileged backgrounds in New Delhi where they are introduced to computer skills, and are given a space to explore technology.

The Shikkhok Project at University of Alabama at Birmingham | Bangladesh + University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Shikkhok.com project aims to provide free online education and high-quality courses in Bengali language to rural and disadvantaged students in Bangladesh and India. They bring together educators and researchers from all over the world for to create content in Bengali language on both basic and advanced topics, to develop a model for ultra-low-cost online education for students in the developing world and to serve as an open, free, and cheaper alternative to traditional educational institutions.

Programming Challenge 4 Girls | New Zealand
PC4G runs an annual challenge to introduce high school girls to programming in an interesting way prior to their senior subject choices. It shows girls that programming can be fun, introduces their teachers to programming and offers professional development to teachers.

2012 Europe Award Recipients

Centre for Academic Achievement | Ireland

The Centre for Academic Achievement runs afterschool educational classes in a university setting for bright primary school students from socio-economic disadvantaged areas. Many of these students may not have thought of attending university as an option for their future and the goals of the programme are to encourage these students to reach their potential, to get students interested in learning outside the school environment, and to promote positive attitudes to education in the community. Each term, pupils from 32 local primary schools get the opportunity to study, for free, science, maths and engineering subjects delivered by specialised staff.

NERD! | Dipartimento di Informatica | Italy

The Department of Computer Science at "La Sapienza", Rome, has become a focal point for young people wishing to acquire a sound theoretical and experimental preparation which will enable them to enter and participate actively in the fast evolving world of Information and Communication Technology. However, less than 15% of our students are female. To address this problem, we launched the NERD? program for female students in High School. NERD? is the acronym for the Italian phrase "Non E' Roba per Donne?", which translates as "Not women's stuff?". The main objectives of the program are to disprove the stereotype that computer science is for "nerds" and demonstrate the highly creative nature of the discipline, thus stimulating students' interest in pursuing their studies in it. A web site will be set up to share our experience and teaching material with other universities and instructors, and also to offer a meeting point for female students attracted to the discipline.

Spreading STEM Through Robotics | FIRST Robotics Team 1884: The Griffins | United Kingdom

The Griffins are a FIRST robotics team based in the UK. With the help of Google RISE, the team aims to provide STEM opportunities to secondary school students in disadvantaged areas of London through the FIRST LEGO League (FLL). In the FLL competition, students build LEGO robots and research scientific topics relevant to modern society. The Griffins' goal is to kick-start robotics teams in London schools that would compete in FLL's London regional, the largest regional competition in the UK. Robotics provides a unique experience for students to gain an interest and appreciation for STEM outside the classroom.

comeUP | Frauennetzwerk Informatik | Germany

The comeUP program by the Frauennetzwerk Informatik at Universität Passau reaches out to high school students. University students act as ambassadors to their own high school, introduce the kids in their junior and senior years to Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Mathematics by giving them first-hand experience of their study environment and by running small demos and workshops on Robotics and mobile applications on smartphones. The outreach program is complemented by a mentor program where the ambassador keeps the contact with the students reached through the school visit and guides them in their decision to study STEM courses.

Fab Lab Kids Club | Happylab | Austria

INNOC runs the Happylab in Vienna, Austria's first Fab Lab. More than 400 members use the Happylab frequently in order to realize and materialize their ideas. The Fab Lab Kids Club is a low-threshold service for kids in the age of 10 - 15. This provides guided hands-on activities to inspire excitement in STEM and CS as a basis for future innovations in technology. The Fab Lab Kids Club aims to inspire a younger audience to deal hands-on with new technologies. One afternoon per week the Happylab will be opened especially for kids. The Fab Lab Kids Club is an out of school activity, which supports discretionary learning in a high-tech environment. Personnel experienced in youth work will supervise the kids.

Info-Education | Romanian Computer Science Teachers Association | Romania

RCSTA (UPIR) is a scientific and professional organization with the goal to provide computer science education in the pre-university education system. The project Info-Education contest has the goal to provide among the students "programming for life", creation of small works in the matter of webpages, educational software, robots, multimedia. The impact of the program will be among 3000 students from Romania and 5 European countries.

Inspirational STEM Days | The Smallpeice Trust | United Kingdom

The Smallpeice Trust is an energetic and independent educational charity, which promotes Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) to 10 to 18 year olds with the aim of opening up more career opportunities for young people, securing the future technology talent pipeline in the UK, and helping to rebalance our economy.

Founded in 1966 by Dr Cosby Smallpeice, a self-taught engineer, The Smallpeice Trust has a reputation for delivering professionally executed engineering courses. Over the past academic year, The Smallpeice Trust has run 37 inspirational residential courses for 2,060 students and a record 16,115 students took part in an STEM Day.

IT Camp for girls | Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University | Denmark

For six years the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University has held the IT Camp for girls. It gives a group of girls aged 15-19 an insight into the world of IT and computer science. They will attend theoretical lectures, programming workshops and they will visit an IT company. Also, the girls will be introduced to role models from the IT world. We believe that the IT Camp for girls makes a difference. We are experiencing that former participants go on to study computer science themselves. Our goals for 2012 are to repeat the success of last year's camp and continue to inspire more young girls to consider an education in computer science.

2012 Sub-Saharan Africa Award Recipients

Great Olympiad Science Competitions, Science Teachers Enrichment Pr... | Youth Care Foundation | The Gambia

The Youth Care Foundation, The Gambia is chartered charity organization. It works in partnerships with the following organizations to promote and advance interests in Mathematics and Sciences: Directorates of Science and Technical Education, The Gambia, Science Teachers Association The Gambia (STAGAM), and Mathematics Teachers' Association The Gambia (MTAGAM)

ICT Clinic for Girls | Savana Signatures | Ghana

Savana Signatures has a mission to promote the development of youth and women through education and knowledge sharing. It seeks to use ICT as catalyst to develop the minds of youth and women for the benefit of Ghana's development and builds capacity of women to access information for their social and economic growth; builds capacity of youth to use ICT for entrepreneurial development; trains teachers and students to integrate ICT into teaching and learning; re-orients the youth and women in the use of ICT for entrepreneurial growth and advancement; conducts research on ICT4D with a focus on youth and women.

Akirachix Training Program | Akirachix Association | Kenya

AkiraChix aims to build a successful force of women in Technology that will change Africa's future. In line with one of our missions of inspiring and developing women in technology, we aim to conduct a technical training for twenty five young women from socio-economically disadvantaged areas of Nairobi who lack opportunities for post-secondary education. As demonstrated from our successful first year, this program will give these young women the opportunity to find financial independence as technology professionals. The Google RISE funding will facilitate the running of this second edition of the program by covering the program costs.

Young Girls Science and Health Tele-Academy | Youth for Technology Foundation | Nigeria

The mission of YTF is to create enriched learning communities where the use of technology affords opportunities for marginalized youth and women living in developing countries. The Young Girls Science & Health Tele-Academy teaches Nigerian girls, ages 13 through 18, to use technology to research and disseminate information about a principal cause of cancer deaths in African women- breast cancer. Beneficiaries will increase their interest in a STEM career, and increase multicultural understanding. Collaboration software, digital cameras, computers, smart phones, radio and the Internet will be used to enable girls to collaborate with digital peers, leading educators and health professionals.

Fundi Bots | Uganda

Fundi Bots is a technology outreach programme for students in high school and university. Our core focus is the use of Robotics to sensitize and create an awareness in young children about the benefits and endless possibilities of technology in day to day life. By doing this, we also aim to promote early stage career development in technology and related fields. We are also creating a learning environment outside of schools where passionate African children can learn, grow and experiment with machines, gadgets and technology as a means of creative and innovative expression.

2013 Latin America Award Recipients

Universidad Nacional de Cordoba | Cordoba, Argentina
The CS Department runs college level program in computing in one of the poorest neighborhood of the city. A group of professors from the Computer Science and Education departments are teaching high school students to create their own animation, videogames in the platform Alice and through Chatbots to motivate students to pursue a career in CS.

Dwengo vzw | Salta, Argentina + Belgium
Dwengo is a Belgian non-profit organization which supports students those interested in learning about microcontrollers. They developed a multi-functional microcontroller board and a freely available graphical programming language which is currently used by more than 100 schools in Belgium and the Netherlands. They will now expand access to the resources to high school students in Argentina, as well as training teachers how to use Dwengo in the classroom.

21st Century Chalkboard Project | Haiti + San Francisco
The 21st Century Chalkboard Project aims to help young people in Haiti gain access to educational resources. The project designs, programmes, and delivers educational software in Creole directly to educators and students in Haiti on jump drives and donated computers.

2011 North America Award Recipients

2011 Europe Award Recipients

2010 North America Award Recipients

  • Artemis Project | Brown University | Providence, RI
  • BigShot | Columbia University Program | New York, NY
  • Bootstrap Program | Brown University | Providence, RI
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula Program | Menlo Park, CA
  • Building an Engineer Day, SWE | California Polytechnic State University | San Luis Obispo, CA
  • Build IT | Girls Incorporated of Alameda County | San Leandro, CA
  • Can Wigmunke, the Rainbow Tree Program |
  • Center for Youth Success | ETR Associates |
  • Citizen Schools of New York Program | New York, NY
  • Click! Program | Carnegie Science Center | Pittsburgh, PA
  • Computer Science Diversity Committee | University of Virginia |
  • Computing in Middle School (CIMS) Program | Harvey Mudd College | Claremont, CA
  • CS Program | University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA
  • Expanding Your Horizons Program | Oakland, CA
  • First Bytes Camp | University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX
  • Future Meets Present Engineering Conference | SHPE - University of Washington | Seattle, WA
  • GamesByTeens Program | Muskingum University | New Concord, OH
  • Girls Achieving in Non-traditional Subjects Program | Santa Clara, CA
  • Gunn High School Robotics Team | Palo Alto, CA
  • Highland Tech High Robotics Team 1548 | Anchorage, AK
  • IMAGINATION '10 Program | Virginia Tech | Blacksburg, VA
  • Imagine That! Program | Techbridge |
  • ITEC Pathways Project | Information Technology Empowerment Center | Lansing, MI
  • Los Ingenieros Program | MESA | Santa Barbara, CA
  • MESA Schools Program | Tower Foundation of San Jose State University | San Jose, CA
  • Women's Technology Program | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA
  • NSBE Academic Success Program |
  • Women In Computing Program | New York University | New York, NY
  • Pioneers in Engineering (PiE) Program | Berkeley, CA
  • Project GUTS | Adventures in Supercomputing Challenge at Santa Fe Institute | Santa Fe, NM
  • St. Vrain MESA Program | Colorado MESA | Longmont, CO
  • STEM Program | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA
  • Technology Leadership Initiative | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA
  • TechREACH Program | Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology | Bothell, WA
  • TechStart Program, Technology Access Foundation | Seattle, WA
  • WISE Program, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI
  • Women in Computer Science Career Day | Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN
  • Women in CS Program | Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ
  • Women in Science and Engineering Program | University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, IL
  • WOW! That's Engineering Program | Santa Clara Valley SWE | Sunnyvale, CA

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I have not seen in my 71 years of life an opportunity to support youth co-create futures like SDG Metaverse Prize - since my father met von neumann the year I was born my family has kept an eye on entrepreneurial revolution open societal flows. living up to smithian or keynsian values 
Special thanks to zasheem launches of 2 journals with adam smith scholars and around Glasgow's greatest 20th C alumni for good. See alsdo EconomistDiary.com and Greatests of All Time
Following on with Japan ambassador to Bangladesh support from 2010 in mapping last decade of Fazle Abed and the billion womens economic model he gravitated over 50 years http://www.abedmooc.com, Team of Asian media graduates, and friends and I were lucky to follow movements of Guterres (very granular levels of 100 ops leaders inside UN) around digital un2.0 from their start in 2016.
As a statistician, datawise. I can offer a quick start mapping every last mile operation branch of UN that is linking in to maximise tech nd deep data with smartest possible logistics even as sad new fractures of world trade flows are caused most lately by Russia. Whats still needed is more clarity on which multilateral has the most data on broken value chains- fortunately i personally know who at the world bank has since 2006 the most data on food prices across every country. Maybe you know // sources .
 Digital cooperation has been celebrated solutionwise in Geneva where the ITU has actually been the digital twin of ny policy headquarters from the start in 1946 (and actually earlier since 1865 collaborations needed for there to be one telegraph standard instead of many).
By 2018 the first digital cooperation report mainly chaired out of geneva with 30 national tech leaders eg melinda gates representing USA to guterres and he formed tech envoy transformation office round 10 transformation processes -see Overview of the Office’s Ongoing Work | Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology
The ITU started taking its responsibility to a new level with AIforgood- specifically this went year round zoom not juts annual summit- and a first 50 operational branches of the UN identified at least one ai project each. Meanwhile Guterres hosted expert roundtables around the 10 processes uniting not just un branches and national leaders but corporations , leading ai university centres and NGOs -see https://www.un.org/techenvoy/sites/www.un.org.techenvoy/files/List_of_roundtables_key_constituents.pdf
Three more things came together- it turned out that 20 operational units of the UN had been discussing web1 &2 in annual vents of ITU -in thi=ose days called worldwide information society; the xprize out of moutnain view's singularity university got involved. By december the 10 million dillar avatar prize will  be debriefed- the last 4 xprizes have been on urgen tai solutions eg related to covid. And japan has been uniting about 40 cities' colleges through two investment streams geared to society5.0 and Osaka Data Track Expos - connection places where the UN has a training college and connecting AI regional epicentres fortunately Nordica, Netherlands & selected East Europe's smartest community AI researchers (ie who value DAO) are miles more connected than west EU's bureaucratic offices. (I did help moderate EU Knolwgeboard for 3 years so have followed this rather strange old world happening) You could also check with Romano Prodi as died and he shared most entrepreneurial revolution maps.
Back in 2018 the tufts arctic circle club were miles ahead on virtual reality than other boston students including mit100k prize that i once judged in a minor way.  The over 18 teams are effectively free to help the UN digitalise and connect this with web 3 or metaverse or ai or whatever is the leap forward 2020s that you see tech mobilising
 can a prize help celebrate new Greatest of All Time. This will be one way to unite celebrities of sports and fashions with real tech heroines.
Exponentially we are at a critical time as nature judges us. Due to last week's supreme court rulings, around the world nations are being told taht it is only at the state level they can expect any american partners of climate, energy etc. However there is a chnace e that if we map who cares about water this may even unite some republican states. 
Thanks to the work led by people like Eban he has a listing of which institutions joined their youth in March 2022. Is there a way to see who wants to help youth connect before december's starting line for year 1 of sdgmetaverseprize.org? As far as I can see this prize isnt just us last chance to be be trusted rest of the world on cop26 but it is every community's chance to benchmark digital gov. UN2.0 if succeeds  Meta will not only provide a benchmark for digital multilateral but will in effect unite every best govtech - at community state nation level. So already when it comes to goal 4 education places like singapore and south korea are both leaders of ai for every age group and leading connectors of Guterres Digital UN , and in effect every sustainability goal solution. of course the problem is penisular and  developed island states are not sufficient to help with massive inland solutions on continent scales let alone messy landlocked nations borders. The reality is west (US and EU) depends on Asian solutions  more than many Atlamtic policymakers view. Europe is not yet better situated for peace than the 1920s and this time round the US is not united on being a leader in saving the world. The great thing about the prize is with teams of 2-6 getting on with deep digital solutions youth can advance in joy and productivity even as elder generations have designed 60 years of accelerating media to propagate hate or fear or mental illness.
i welcome any way to follow this up eg whatsapp +1 240 316  8157, zooms, last month while wall street was still investing mainly in naked apes - educators started an NFT aimed at connecting 6000 educators; to be frank this is mainly k-12 leaving the 2 main areas fazle abed's last 20 years focused newly on university and pre-school maximum opportunity to represent women empowerments voice if you should so choose to collaborate
cheers chris macrae

===================please note most of this column is due to be re-edited we hope to issue a list of yunus top 10 stories but when it comes to solutions matching those challeges there's all to play for as web3 is humanity's last chnace to leap ahead

  hottest youth-spring question of our life and times-can online education end youth unemployment for ever ? yes but only if you help map how!

Breaking News to action now!

About Pro-Youth economics at Norman Macrae Foundation online library of norman macrae - The Economist's Unacknowledged Giant -videos 1 2 -fansweb  NMFoundation- youth projects - include yunuschoolusa

 

fullest press reports  Grameen Brand Partnership Architecture

exponential impact advisory: the social business youth networks inspired by muhammad yunus -without which millennium goal actions networks would be way behind are worth far more than any individual parts according to Norman Macrae Foundation  trilliondollaraudit methodology and charter notespace

Beyond the extraordinary investment of the members bank at Grameen, and the approximate third share its members foundation holds in grameenphone, here is our Unofficial League Table of Most Impactful Social Business Investments around yunus - last update 1 dec 2012

! Grameen Solar

2 Grameen Mobile Nursing nets and college

3 Portfolio of investments linkedin by Japan

4 Portfolio of youth-led networking inventions in US educationsystem  tertiar and secondary - transparency note NM Foundation has minor donation/loan interest

5 Investments in Grameen as collaboration brand linked in out of paris- the origin of global social business partnership funds

6 OpenTech investments of Grameen Intel

 

-------- while not controlled by yunus we see wholeplanetfoundation microcredit investment table and conscious capitalsm movements and hugely important to advancing pro-youth economicsmission of friends of youth and yunus

 

email chris.macrae@yahoo.co.ukif you have questions or recommendations of entries that should be in this league table

-please read notes about what pro-youth economists mean by superapps being most

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