April 23, 2012     

Student Team Wins the Fels Institute of Government's National Public Policy Challenge

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NYU Wagner students Miriam Altman, Barrie Charney-Golden and Alexandra Meis have won the National Public Policy Challenge sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government.

Demonstrating a pattern-breaking way to tackle a major public management challenge, the trio beat out teams from Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University, Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and Fels.

The National Invitation Competition was held April 22 in Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center. A panel of judges reviewed each student team proposal and rendered its verdict, awarding the $15,000 top prize for the Kinvolved project.

Kinvolved aims to improve education by utilizing pocket-size technology to help classroom teachers to input and retrieve student attendance and other records easily and communicate instantly with parents.  Judges included: John Gibbons (partner, Deloitte Consulting); Wanda Gibson (former director of the Information Technology Department, Fair fax County, Va.); Parris Glendening (former Maryland governor), and Bill Leighty (former chief of staff to former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner ).

Kinvolved is on a winning streak. Kinvolved competed against more than 40 teams in London, Paris, Berlin, Dallas, San Francisco, and New York to win the Global BeMyApp Mobile App Competition on Feb. 29th, 2012.

 








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