Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Winning Young Innovators Announced for 2015 Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge
Inaugural winners of the Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge – an open, online call for creative solutions to contemporary challenges, presented by The Moody's Foundation – were announced today by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), which ran the competition.
There were two categories in the initial 2015 Challenge: Social Media Savvy Quiz Challenge and the Business of Doing Good Challenge which asked small groups of young people (14-19) to think about and create ways to educate their peers about social media and social good. Two prizes of $5,000 each were awarded in each category – four prizes total – to the winning team. An additional award of $500 per winning entry – four in all – was given to the sponsoring school or social organization of the winning team....