Learning Lab Winners

Digital Media and Learning (DLM) selected ten projects to share $1.7 million. These projects include Click! Online, designed to help teen girls connect for STEM activities, peer networking, and gaming; Conservation Connection, in which students in the Chicago area and in Fiji work virtually to save the coral reefs; EcoBugs, where kids can monitor the health of virtual bug species; and FabLab, for exciting possibilities for K-12 in engineering, digital fabrication, mathematical modeling, invention ….  Other winners are: Hole in the Wall, e-based learning in India; MetroVoice where students from Los Angeles create video and TV screen banners about their neighborhoods; Mobile Action Lab with its collaboration for community change; Nox No More, an environmental education game that integrates personal information into the gaming; Scratch and Share to engage students in development of the future of software; and YouthApp Lab that puts high school students in D.C.to work creating software and apps. Online voting until 6/4/10 will determine how much funding each project receives.  Be on the lookout for these outstanding learning lab projects in the coming year.