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From WhatsApp tutors to scholarship finders, six entrepreneurs across Africa are using artificial intelligence to make learning more accessible for millions of students. Their tools are turning smartphones into personalized study assistants and opening doors to opportunities students never knew existed.
Santa Clara University's business school just made career advancement accessible to everyone with a brand new leadership certificate course that costs zero dollars. The program joins expanded free business education reaching learners worldwide.
A Michigan community college is celebrating 65 years of innovation with a newly renovated $6.7 million computer science wing. Delta College has helped thousands of students access higher education who might never have had the chance.
Regent University just proved AI development doesn't have to happen in a sleepless 24-hour sprint. Their first-ever AI Build Challenge gave participants two weeks to create learning tools on their own schedule.
Middle and high schoolers turned strangers into business partners and blank ideas into pitch-ready startups in just hours. A winning app now helps people with food allergies find safe places to eat.
Tamil Nadu just rolled out the first curriculum specifically designed for children with disabilities, featuring larger fonts, more images, and interactive games. The new textbooks for grades 1-3 include sign language videos and QR codes that help parents track their child's progress at home.
Seventeen students graduated from ASU Local's Los Angeles and Long Beach programs in May, marking the largest cohort yet from a hybrid learning model designed for working adults and parents. Among them were first-generation students who balanced jobs, families, and decades-long breaks from education to earn their degrees.