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The Boston University student body has been getting a lot more technologically advanced over the past few years, and this year's winners of the university's Spark! Innovation Award are no exception.
The winners of the "Demo Day" event, held last Thursday at the BU Center for Computing & Data Sciences, are: Chatsqrd: A web application that allows children to engage with an AI model that's specifically designed to help educate the user in a variety of subjects.
The goal is to create an engaging and motivating learning experience for children in grades K through 3 to help improve the current educational environment with a tool that is being used by millions around the world.
GitHub: A social network for gym users.
The goal is to "support and motivates each other; inspires and rewards gym goers for their consistency; and also allows them to look back on how far they've come, and to pridefully show their achievements."
LanguageSpot Me: A vocabulary-learning assistant that enhances language acquisition by automating the process of creating customized learning paces and word repetition tasks.
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Social Entrepreneurship: The Right Balance of Doing Good and Doing Well
Social entrepreneur and co-founder of nonprofit Jolkona, Adnan Mahmud, discusses his definition of a successful social entrepreneur. He describes the social entrepreneur as someone who has found the right balance between doing good while doing well.
