The National Braille Press is accepting applications for the 2011 Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation.
If you are interested in applying or nominating another innovation, please read the submission requirements and download the application. Applications are due on September 1, 2011.
The Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation
The Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation was developed to inspire an innovator to continue the promotion of braille literacy for blind and deafblind people worldwide.
The Prize
$20,000 will be granted for a new educational method, a new tactile literacy product, or a new technological advance in tactile literacy.
What type of innovation would inspire even Louis Braille himself?
Whatever your idea – whether a tactile-based technology project, a viable braille teaching technique, a way to inspire pre-school braille learners, or a braille writing instrument – we want to hear from you.
Fostering Innovation
The Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation has attracted innovators from all over the world in the fields of education, technology, engineering, tactile graphics, and general literacy. This is the only prize to foster and reward innovation and offers a direct and compelling incentive for researchers, teachers and the like to support literacy efforts for blind people. Click here to view past award winners.
The Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation is provided through support from The Gibney Family Foundation. The Gibney Family Foundation supports nonprofit organizations that are dedicated to assisting the blind and those who are otherwise challenged.
