Meet the Imagine Cup Teams on Channel 8
Channel 8, the new student technology site from Microsoft has started showing videos from the presentation teams made to Bill Gates and Craig Mundi in Redmond last month. The first one up is a team from Egypt who has created some software to help create individualized learning programs including tests for students with learning disabilities and other special needs. It will automatically re-word tests for dyslectic students, read tests to students with vision problems and help in other ways.
Driven initially by a desire to help a friends younger sibling it sounds like they put a lot of research into what they are doing. You'll also want to watch and listen as the team asks Bill Gates a question about industries role and responsibility to create software that helps students with special needs.
I really believe that software has a real role in improving education for everyone which was the goal of projects in this year's Imagine Cup. While the Imagine Cup is for college/university students it is good for younger students to see what is being done in higher education so they can see that it can be relevant.
