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Samsung to Kick off Third Year of Samsung Mobile App Academies with Four Additional Cities and New Application Coding Curriculum

DALLAS, June 17, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) is continuing to help students mobilize their future with its expanded Samsung Mobile App Academies. In its third year, the mobile application (app) development program for high school students will travel to a total of ten cities across the country. The program also features a [...]

Kaplan Launches Metis Bootcamps in New York City to Train Aspiring Data Scientists and Product Designers

NEW YORK, June 9, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Education giant Kaplan is strengthening its place in the expanding market of technology bootcamps with the launch of two new programs this summer: one for aspiring data scientists and one for aspiring product designers. Both bootcamps will operate under Kaplan’s new Metis brand of intensive learning programs, launched in [...]

BIC crowdsources the world’s handwriting into a single Universal Typeface

AMSTERDAM and DUSSELDORF, Germany, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — BIC has started crowdsourcing digital handwriting contributions and data from all over the planet in order to combine them into a single typeface. The Universal Typeface experiment is a celebration of the BIC Cristal ballpoint, of which more than 100 billion have been produced since 1950. [...]

Musician and Activist Bono to Receive Inaugural Cannes LionHeart Award for AIDS Organisation (RED)

LONDON, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The organisers of the 61st Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity are proud to honour Bono, the activist lead singer of Irish rock band U2, with the first ever Cannes LionHeart Award, for pioneering (RED), a creative fusion of branding, activism and philanthropy that has generated more than $250 [...]

America’s Largest Solar-Powered Boat Competition Features Nearly 700 Students on 40 Southland High School Teams

LOS ANGELES, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Final preparations continue for the America’s largest solar-powered boat competition with 40 teams of high school students throughout Southern California entering the home stretch for three days of racing this weekend as part of Metropolitan Water District’s Solar Cup™. Beginning Friday (May 16), teams from high schools (see [...]

More Than 800,000 People Took Part in Habitat for Humanity Youth BUILD 2014

Bangkok, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 800,000 people took part in Habitat Youth BUILD activities. Spread across 11 countries in Asia, young people took action, raised money and increased awareness of the poverty housing situation in the region. “The support for Habitat Youth BUILD 2014 is amazing and inspiring. More than 800,000 young people [...]

Creative and Engineering Skills to Be Displayed for the Mind™ Showdown at 2014 FIRST® Championship

MANCHESTER, N.H., April 27, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – This week, more than 12,000 students from around the globe traveled to St. Louis, Mo., to put their engineering skills to the test at the annual FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Championship, held at the Edward Jones Dome. The three-day event came down to a [...]

Mobile Devices Unlock Literacy Potential, Sparking a Reading Revolution in Developing Countries

SAN FRANCISCO, April 23, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – In celebration of World Book Day, UNESCO, in coalition with Worldreader and Nokia, today released the results of the largest survey on mobile reading in the developing world, which revealed that mobile devices can help significantly enhance people’s literacy skills. According to the responses of nearly 5,000 people [...]

During This “Be Kind To Animals Week,” Join America’s New Compassion Movement And Become A Voice For The Voiceless

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – During this year’s “Be Kind to Animals Week®” (May 4-10), American Humane Association, the organization that helped found America’s original “Compassion Movement” in the 1870s is putting out an urgent plea to reach and enlist one million new advocates to help billions of animals facing the daunting challenges of [...]

Singapore Takes the Lead in Integrated Urban Solutions

World Cities Summit, Singapore International Water Week, and CleanEnviro Summit Singapore to drive innovation, co-creation, and sharing of solutions across urban development, water, and waste management in June Singapore, Apr 16, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Singapore is once again taking the lead to encourage governments and industry to come together to share and co-create solutions with [...]