Young Innovators: Get Out of the Garage and Into the Marketplace!
Calling all social media wünderkind, changebloggers, and humanitarian twitterati and digerati of the millennial set (yes, this means you, Alex Steed) there’s ‘gold in them thar’ hills!’ (ok, that phrase comes from either a Yosemite Sam cartoon or a cowboy parody, but either way, it shows it’s in my lexicon, revealing I’m WAY too old to apply!)
HASTAC (pronounced Haystack, as in ‘needle in the…’) and the MacArthur Foundation (Digital Media and Learning Competition) launched a brand new category for 18-25 year old young minds eager to use new forms of collaborative thinking that advance the human condition…The Young Innovators Awards.
Since I’ve floated this to plenty of smart digital wizards in my own youth arena with energetic zeal and been met with a shrug, I decided to distill their criteria into a palatable snapshot…a “DML Cliff Notes” version, at a glance.
This is for all those bright minds who answered my nudge to apply with, “too much paper pushing, I’ll never get it, no time, lots of work for a mini-grant, no partner for the internship yet, and I can’t even tell if I qualify it’s so confusing.” —Okay, ready? (more…)










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