On Sunday, at Think It Up Live, more than 200 students and teachers from Denver area
school districts will come together to brainstorm ideas for learning projects that can
then be submitted for crowd-funding.
A science fair-meets “Shark Tank”-type event, Think It Up Live will allow students to
create and pitch innovative learning projects to judges and experts. All participating
teams will be awarded $100 funding credits to kick-start their projects; the top winner
will receive $1,000.
The students’ teachers can then post the projects at www.ThinkItUp.org, a
site that gives the public an opportunity to help fund the Denver projects.
To help teams reach their goals and implement the projects, funds from major
supporters provide a dollar-for-dollar match for the cost of a project when citizen
donors contribute the other half.
The event follows the success of EIF’s inaugural Think It Up telecast that aired in
September, and will include appearances from representatives of The Entertainment
Industry Foundation, www.DonorsChoose.org, Denver Public Schools Superintendent Tom
Boasberg, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as well Avalanche center Matt Duchene.
Think It Up is a new movement in support of the nation’s students, teachers and
schools, helping generate excitement about learning everywhere in America and
building a sense of optimism about the changes underway in classrooms across the
country.
www.ThinkItUp.org is the first-of-its-kind platform to fund student-powered, teacher-led
learning projects in partnership with www.DonorsChoose.org, the popular teacher crowdfunding
charity.
Public school students in grades 7-12 can work with their teachers to develop projects
that draw on their passions and connect what they are working on in the classroom to
the challenges they will face in the future. Their ideas then will be crowd-funded.
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