Press Release Summary: Move over Robots and Aero plane Models - Here comes the design of Education. In a unique and first ever kind of student poster contest, GREedge.com, India’s first online academy for GRE aspirants announces "EDGEucation Next". EDGEucation Next will be launched at Shaastra 2008, the annual student organized technology festival of IIT-Madras. Participants from all over India will be able to challenge each other in envisioning and designing educational technologies for the future.
Press Release Body: GREedge.com announces EDGEucation Next
Poster Contest on the future of technologies in education at IIT Madras – Shaastra 2008
Chennai, 1st October 2008:
Move over Robots and Aero plane Models - Here comes the design of Education. In a unique and first ever kind of student poster contest, GREedge.com, India’s first online academy for GRE aspirants announces "EDGEucation Next". EDGEucation Next will be launched at Shaastra 2008, the annual student organized technology festival of IIT-Madras. Participants from all over India will be able to challenge each other in envisioning and designing educational technologies for the future.
Participants can submit their entries at the IIT Madras campus during the 5-day festival or email them to contests@GREedge.com before 11:59pm, Oct 4 2008.
The Grand Engineering Challenge Connection
"Personalized Learning, considered one of the Grand Challenges of Engineering for the 21st century, is a hot new technology area which will revolutionize the way education is delivered to people everywhere. It is rapidly becoming a new field of Engineering. (www.engineeringchallenges.org). To spread the excitement and challenge of this field, which is the core technology area for our firm, we thought of this contest" says Yogish Lavanis, a technologist who heads Student Facilitation & Analysis at GREedge.com. GREedge.com will conduct the event and also sponsor the prizes.
What to do to win a Laptop:
Participants of EDGEucation Next will have to create a poster bringing out their imagination, concept, and design for a futuristic version of personalized education. The theme can be one of the following - Books of the Future, Classrooms of the Future or Handheld Learning Devices for the College Student. Qualified posters will be displayed at the IIT-Madras Campus during the Shaastra-2008 festival Oct 1-5.
All participants will receive a problem statement and poster design kit at the IIT Madras Campus or on the GREedge.com website from Oct 1, 2008. The overall winner with the best design will receive a laptop as the prize.
Shaastra 2008 is expected to attract 15000 students from across the country. These students will be participating in many Engineering and Scientific workshops, contests, events and lectures through the five day festival at the IIT-Madras campus in Chennai.
About GREedge.com The company was founded by Dr. Anand Kannan & Dr. Yogish Lavanis and a professional team with strong academic background from institutions such as IIT, IISc, IT-BHU, CIEFL (now EFLU), Stanford, U. Texas and Purdue - most of whom have themselves written GRE and worked through their graduate studies and research in the US.
The company has several experts and experienced teachers and subject experts who have been involved in GRE training, GRE coaching and GRE, GMAT, SAT classes for over two decades.
The company employs experienced authors and instruction designers who have authored several widely used textbooks at school and college level and communication campaigns for leading organizations. The company also has a core team of dedicated technology experts specializing in the delivery and tracking of learning.
Adaptive Learning was invented here with a patent pending for its “Millisecond Technology” – as it is now branded. GREedge.com’s student facilitators are the best and the brightest and diligently assess, track and advice students as they work through their sessions.
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