Posts in Grantee Highlight
Broadening Education Access for Incarcerated Youth
Broadening Education Access for Incarcerated Youth

The Echo Glen Children's Center in Snoqualmie, Washington, is a juvenile detention center with a mission to rehabilitate and educate. Its educational programs are technology driven, but implementing them comes with a multitude of challenges, including cost, security, and remote locations with limited IT support.  To address the challenges that come with broadening education access in detention centers, World Possible uses the offline Endless OS to provide safe, learning-rich Securebook Laptops for incarcerated youth.

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Device Access, Grantee HighlightEndless MarketingOffline internet, Offline learning
How Closing the Digital Divide Benefits Everyone - Not Just the Unconnected
How Closing the Digital Divide Benefits Everyone - Not Just the Unconnected

Common Sense and Boston Consulting Group collaborated to create a new report on the institutional case for closing the digital divide. In advance of the release of their new report, the two organizations hosted “How Closing the Digital Divide Benefits Everyone - Not Just the Unconnected,” a webinar that brought together experts across sectors to discuss their experiences of improving access across the nation.

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Grantee HighlightEndless MarketingCommon Sense
Girls Who Code Launches Project to Disrupt Gender Inequity in Video Games
Girls Who Code Launches Project to Disrupt Gender Inequity in Video Games

Girls Who Code, a nonprofit working to close the gender gap in tech, launched Girls Who Code Girls, a gaming experience where users create personalized video game characters with code. There are infinite code-able combinations, from hair texture to skin specificity to body size, and coders will be able to code their avatars with unique and underrepresented attributes. 

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Grantee HighlightEndless MarketingGirls Who Code, Coding Education, Equity
Innovative tech delivers Sesame Street and more high quality digital content without the internet
Innovative tech delivers Sesame Street and more high quality digital content without the internet

Elmo, Big Bird, and the rest of the Sesame Street crew have spent 53 years bringing fun, creative educational content to kids and families. A new collaboration with support from Endless Network is aiming to build on that legacy by providing educational content to families and educators who lack reliable broadband access due to geography or affordability.

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Grantee Highlight, Offline InternetEndless MarketingOffline internet, Sesame Workshop, IEI, Grantee Highlight
What is Computational Thinking and Why is it Important?
What is Computational Thinking and Why is it Important?

Over the last decade, the question of how and why to integrate computers into classrooms has become increasingly relevant. Computational thinking, a priority area of The Robin Hood Foundation’s Learning + Technology Fund, supported by Endless, proposes new ways to teach students how to think, problem solve, and create with computers in order to learn any subject better.

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Grantee HighlightEndless MarketingRobin Hood Fourndation, Computational thinking
Youth Game Design Challenge Winners Share Big Ideas Through Innovative Creations
Youth Game Design Challenge Winners Share Big Ideas Through Innovative Creations

The world’s first ever international youth game design challenge inspired young people ages 10-18 to dream up a game and code it into reality. We spoke to three winners of the XPRIZE Connect Code Games: A Global Game-Making Challenge—supported by Endless Network - to find out more about their inspiration, creative processes, and hopes for the future.

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Grantee Highlight, Games for LearningEndless MarketingXPRIZE