Which social entrepreneur and public figure is credited with developing the primary school competition in which contestants are asked to spell a broad section of words?
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Aaron Kirunda Aaron Kirunda, is a social entrepreneur and public figure. He is a co-founder and Chief Executive at enjuba where he dedicates his work to empowering people to reach their full potential through a financial service company enjuba Credit and an education initiative the enjuba Spelling Bee a catalytic program that reaches millions of pupils in primary schools, helping them improve their literacy, develop key life skills and develop a reading culture.
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Spelling bee A spelling bee is a competition in which contestants are asked to spell a broad selection of words, usually with a varying degree of difficulty. The concept is thought to have originated in the United States, and spelling bee events, along with variants, are now also held in some other countries around the world.
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From Scratch (radio) From Scratch is a public radio show about the entrepreneurial life broadcast weekly on National Public Radio's XM and Sirius channels, NPR Worldwide, and NPR Berlin. The program is hosted by Jessica Harris. "From Scratch" personalizes the lives of entrepreneurs by providing listeners with a candid, first-hand view of the launching process. Guests speak openly about their sources of inspiration, setbacks, helpful allies, and breakthrough moments. Featuring business, social and cultural leaders in all stages of the building process, "From Scratch" informs those who are either initiating their own entrepreneurial lives or simply feeling curious about those who make new ideas happen.
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Ryan Bank Ryan Clayton Bank (born April 27, 1981) is an Emerging Technology Expert and Social Innovation Evangelist. Bank is the Founder of Social Intelligence Corporation, a start-up company that enables governments and corporate clients to gather Social and Open Source Intelligence. Besides advising governments and corporations on the use of Emerging Technology, Bank is also a featured speaker both nationally and internationally on the organizational value of Innovation.
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Luis von Ahn Luis von Ahn (born 19 August 1978) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur and a Consulting Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, a popular language-learning platform.
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Ashoka (non-profit organization) Ashoka (branded Ashoka: Innovators of the Public) is an international organization that promotes social entrepreneurship by affiliating individual social entrepreneurs into the Ashoka organization. Their stated mission is "to shape a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector: one that allows social entrepreneurs to thrive and enables the world's citizens to think and act as changemakers".
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David Asper David Asper LLM (born November 26, 1958) is a lawyer, businessman, philanthropist and recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his community service.
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Michael Hayman Michael Morris Hayman MBE (born 3 January 1970) is a campaigner and entrepreneur in the United Kingdom. He is a co-founder of Seven Hills, a London-based campaigning communication consultancy. Michael is chairman of Entrepreneurs at the private bank Coutts & Co, co-founder of The Duke of York's E20 advocacy group for entrepreneurs, an Advisory board member for the National Business Awards and has been appointed an Honorary Fellow at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning. He is co-founder of StartUp Britain, the national initiative for early stage enterprise, which is fully supported by the Prime Minister David Cameron and HM Government. He was recently ranked as one of GQ's 100 Most Connected Men 2014. Michael has supported the national enterprise effort, assisting the Department for Business to position Business in You, StartUp Loans and the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme. He also chaired a task group for the Minister of State to build corporate support for Global Entrepreneurship Week.
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Peter Boizot Peter Boizot, MBE (born 16 November 1929) is an English entrepreneur, restaurateur, politician, art collector and philanthropist. He is most well known as the founder of PizzaExpress.
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Adelaida Semyonovna Simonovitch Adelaida Semyonovna Simonovitch (Russian: Аделаида Семёновна Симонович 1844-1933) was a Russian educator and the founder of the first kindergarten in Russia. She also was the first Russian theorist of public preschool education and published books and journals advocating early childhood development.
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Alan Munro (immunologist) Alan James Munro (born 19 February 1937) is a British immunologist and entrepreneur.
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Prasad V. Potluri Prasad V. Potluri (Telugu: ప్రసాద్ వి పొట్లూరి, born on 8 September 1970), popularly known as "PVP", is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist and educationalist. He started his own production company called PVP cinema.
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Herbert Kohl (educator) Herbert R. Kohl (born August 22, 1937) is an educator best known for his advocacy of progressive alternative education and as the author of more than thirty books on education. He founded the 1960s Open School movement and is credited with coining the term "open classroom."
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Rick Smith (author) Rick Smith (born January 22, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, author and public speaker. Smith launched the World 50 global executive network.
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Creative Entrepreneurs Creative Entrepreneurs is a UK-based online and event platform providing resources for people starting up and growing creative businesses. The Creative Entrepreneurs website collects and organises business resources which can be searched by type and by specific creative sector. The website also provides magazine-like content including interviews with leading creative entrepreneurs and industry experts, such as investors and business advisors. Additionally, Creative Entrepreneurs host events to support entrepreneurship in the UK creative sector.
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Organizational founder An organizational founder is a person who has undertaken some or all of the work needed to create a new organization, whether this is a business, a charitable organization, a governing body, a school, a group of entertainers, or some other kind of organization. If there are multiple founders, each can be referred to as a co-founder. If the organization is a business, the founder is usually an entrepreneur. If an organization is created to carry out charitable work, the founder is generally considered a philanthropist, while organizations developed around the pursuit of the personal interests of their members may be founded by mere hobbyists.
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Andrew Mawson, Baron Mawson Andrew Mawson, Baron Mawson, OBE (born 8 November 1954) is an English social entrepreneur.
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Future City Competition Future City Competition is a national competition in the United States that focuses on improving student's math, engineering, and science skills. The program is open to students in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades who attend a public, private or home school.
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Jerry Kaplan Samuel Jerrold "Jerry" Kaplan (born March 25, 1952) is an American computer scientist, author, futurist, and serial entrepreneur. He is best known as a pioneer in the field of pen computing and tablet computers. He is the founder of numerous companies, including GO Corporation, whose technology was used to develop the first smartphone and tablet PC. Kaplan is the co-founder of OnSale, the first B2C online auction site launched in 1994, five months prior to eBay. He is a recipient of the 1998 Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award and author of the best-selling book "Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure." He has been featured in major news publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Red Herring, and Bloomberg Businessweek. Kaplan is also the author of the 2015 book "Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence". Additional companies he has co-founded include artificial intelligence company Teknowledge, Inc. and social game website Winster.com. Kaplan is currently a Fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.
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Varun Shrivastava Varun Shrivastava is a social activist from Nagpur, who is working for the upliftment of Under Privileged street children. He is an IIT Kharagpur Alumni, working as a manager at a power sector company, NTPC Ltd. He is well known for his notable work of bringing street children into the mainstream. He is the Founder of UPAY (Under Privileged Advancement by Youth), Which is Providing free of cost education to 1200 Under Privileged Children at 20 different centers across the country. He is also the founder of Apnasaamaan.com, an E-Commerce non profit portal which provides online market to poor artisans. He is popularly known as a Man, turning Footpaths into School, who has started a famous street to school campaign in many cities. Times of India referred him as a Big Brother to street kids. He has been considered among top 10 ordinary Indians doing extraordinary things by Lokmat samachar and many other social media groups. He has inspired hundreds of youth from different backgrounds like doctors, engineers, college students and teachers to take up the street children cause and given them a motto of Reach & Teach underprivileged children. He is trying to replace begging bowls in the hands of street children by books.
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Schools' Challenge Schools Challenge is the national general knowledge competition for schools in the United Kingdom. It uses the same quiz bowl rules as University Challenge, although it is affiliated with neither the game nor the television show.
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Syed Ahmed (businessman) Syed Ahmed (Bengali: সৈয়দ আহমেদ ; born 17 September 1974) is a Bangladeshi-born British entrepreneur, businessman and television personality. He is the founder and CEO of the British design and manufacturing hand dryer company SAVortex. He is best known for being a contestant in the 2006 series of "The Apprentice", where he was fired in Week 10.