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10^100 project video or you can visit www.project10tothe100.com

This contest sponsored by Google is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 21st Century Symposium! Right up our alley!

Check out this article at http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/09/24/google.project/index.html.

Essentially, Google is looking for ideas that can make the world better for lots of people, and they're willing to pay big bucks to the people who come up with them. You don't have to be a technological genius to submit your ideas, and the ideas don't have to be big or sophisticated.

Talk about project-based learning! How cool would it be to develop and submit an idea? And just think: if you win, you could endow Berkeley Springs High School, and then we'd rename it after you!!!

The other cool part about this project is that it's based on the idea of "crowdsourcing": "the Internet-age notion that the collective wisdom of mass audiences can be leveraged to find solutions to design tasks." That concept in itself would make for an amazing project.

What do you think? Got any earth-changing ideas?




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How about building an all-energy-efficient town along a river... The houses will be completely alternative energies using things like solar panels, windmills, water turbine from the river, and even mother nature itself, like rain water that can be used for watering the plants you use to survive on. There can be a bank, grocery store (for the supplies you can't grow), court house, police station, NO FACTORIES!, a little clothing store with all natural made clothing, ect. It would take a lot of planning but it can be done and it would show the world how it is possilbe to live without the things that the government restricts us to using like oil and electricity. There would even be cars that run on hydrogen or electricity powered by sunlight. My AP World History class went to a Solar Decatholon last year in DC and the innovative ideas of the structures of these houses was intriguing. This would be a really cool project to work on and with $10 million dollars, it could almost be done. It just takes determination and hope and hopefully enough money to complete it. Sound like a good idea?
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