Institute for the Future teamed up with Sun Microsystems and Boing Boing Video to co-host the Digital Open, an online tech expo for teens 17 and under around the world. Today, we’re publishing the first of 8 videos profiling each of the winning teen teams — and we begin with “Centralized Student Website,” by Raymond Zhong and Aatash Parikh, two cool kids from Fremont who dig Drupal.
More from today’s press release announcing the Digital Open winners:
The Digital Open (DigitalOpen.org) ran from April 15 until August 15, 2009. Youth from around the world submitted text, photos, and videos documenting projects all created from a list of free and open software licenses. The projects focused on the transformative power of open technology. Resources from figures like respected open source advocate Richard Stallman to organizations like Creative Commons were made available to contestants to help them learn more about free and open technology movements.
Marina Gorbis, Executive Director of the IFTF has been deeply moved by the passion she has seen in the project’s participants. “The drive and sense of possibility that these young people brought to this competition has been overwhelming,” she says. “The spirit of these contestants not only inspires me, but gives me hope for the future.”