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Grantoo gives students a chance to win grants for playing games online --brands can sponsor tournaments by providing cash that will go towards educational grants or donations to charities for students who win.

New social network by Microsoft targeted towards students. 

"'We basically had two different campaigns running,' said Carl Corbitt, creative director at Goodness. 'We had student-facing banner ads and a teaser video targeted to college-aged kids visiting Break.com, YouTube and Facebook, while we created a bogus 'Dean Deals' logo for all parent-persuading elements generated by students who visited the site (emails, banner ads, wish list landing page, etc.).  'For the parent-tracking banner ads we created five different banner ads for each of the five parent-types (25 different headlines). The headlines on the banners not only speak to the parent's personality/parenting-style (helicopter parent, BFF, Gadget Geek, etc), but we also added more 'nagging' to the headlines over time.' "

The GoSoapBox software and app aims to encourage students to become more engaged with learning in the classroom while offering teachers an insight into their performance.

Students create video-chat program for deaf kids used in daily 6.22

BOXEL is a summer pavillion that was created out of beer boxes by a bunch of german students that were probably totally wasted whilst building it. Looks really cool though. Something to think about for coke?

daily 10.28 teachers in norton not allowed to befriend current and former students on facebook

Tuition costs are skyrocketing, rising by double digits at some major campuses. About 47% of students receive financial aid and 57% are working at least part time to make ends meet, found textbook-rental company Chegg in a recent survey. So, it's no surprise that today's college students are more budget-conscious than ever.

Kolab offers a solution for any student that has become sick and tired of switching between Microsoft Word, Facebook, OneNote, and email. It offers real-time collaborative document editing, Facebook chat integration, video chat, and audio recording for lectures amongst its laundry list of features.

80% of profits from student-made game go to restore the wetlands on the school's campus

Last year Burt's Bees created an interactive billboard featuring thousands of tear-off product coupons to promote a new line of hydration cream. Originally placed in Minneapolis, the billboard has since been donated to the urban gardening students at Durham School of the Arts in North Carolina. Repurposed as a rain catching system, the billboard captures more than 6,300 gallons of rain water each year for use in the school's community garden.

It has announced Amazon Inspire, an open education resources (OER) platform for teachers to source free learning materials for students from kindergarten to twelfth grade, starting first as a beta in the U.S.

Bustamante and his group at Northwestern University whipped up a location-based, augmented-reality Android game called Ghost Hunter to test the theory with students. In the game, a player wanders around her neighborhood looking for ghosts and other monsters, and when the ghouls are in range, the app switches to a live view with an overlay of cross-hairs. The player shoots the ghost and a photo of the location is uploaded.