Competition Judges

Fifty distinguished judges scored the Competition applications, with the winners selected by a panel of 10 judges that included entrepreneurs, educators, academics and journalists. Below is an overview of the final 10 judges.

 

Louis M. Gomez, Co-director of the National Science Foundation-sponsored Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools (LeTUS)

Mimi Ito, cultural anthropologist at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California

Timothy Knowles, Executive Director of the University of Chicago Center for Urban School Improvement

Kenny Miller, Executive Vice President and Creative Director for MTV Networks Global Digital Media

David Pogue, technology columnist for the New York Times and tech correspondent for CBS News

Laurie Racine, Co-founder and President of dotSUB, a technology company that has developed a browser based tool for subtitling films from one language into any other language

David Weinberger, Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School

Evan Williams, co-founded Pyra Labs, which helped to create Blogger and Twitter.

Connie Yowell, Director of Education, MacArthur Foundation

Benjamin Stokes, Program Officer, Digital Media and Learning, MacArthur Foundation

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