1. Who Am I?
Mark Lee
mlee@alum.mit.edu
• CEO of a SG-Based Startup
cofounded with an NUS SoC Professor
• President, MIT Club of Central Florida
This Presentation and Related Presentations
are available here
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Dec 2011

2. Sharing
Singapore’s
Education Expertise
Globally
Mark Lee
mlee@alum.mit.edu
www.slideshare.net/begreatacademy
Dec 2011

3. The World Can Learn from
Singapore’ s Education Expertise
Why Are These Countries
Doing So Well Academically?
Finland & Singapore
What Can The World
Learn From Them?

4. Khan Academy Recommends Singapore Math

5. How Can the World Benefit from
Singapore’s
Education Expertise?

6. Nurture Singapore-Sourced EDU Innovations
Via a Startup Weekend – EDU Event
http://edu.startupweekend.org/

7. Host a Global Education Startup Weekend To
Collaborate Globally On EDU Innovations
Sites : Physical Events
: Digital Collaboration
Helsinki
Physical
Events Orlando
Singapore

8. Each Site & Team Will Have Global Participation
(sometime between Jun-Aug 2012)
Each Global Site Each Global Team
1+ 1
On-Site Remote/Online
Educator Representative Educator Representative
from the other 2 Sites from the other 2 Sites

9. Gates Foundation Supports Startup Weekend – EDU
($250,000)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
has pledged $250,000
to the Startup Weekend EDU series of events,
the dedicated education-focused vertical
within the non-profit.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/07/startup-weekend-edu-receives-250000-grant-from-the-bill-melinda-gates-foundation/

10. Solicit Funding For Global Collaborative SW EDU
Existing Proposed Global
Startup Weekends Startup Weekends – EDU
(Individual & Isolated) (Global Collaboration)
Startup Weekend Org Startup Weekend Org
Structure Structure Global
How-To’s How-To’s Collaboration?
Boston London Orlando Helsinki
Singapore Singapore
Individual & Isolated Peer-to-Peer
Events Global Collaboration

11. Google Supports Startup Weekend, Including EDU
Today, we’re announcing
a partnership with Startup Weekend—
a global organization committed to
promoting real entrepreneurship
in local communities. …
Participants gather on Friday, and (Announced Nov 10th, 2011)
by Sunday afternoon, they launch a product.
This partnership will help Startup Weekend expand to dozens of additional cities
around the world and launch new vertical competitions focused on specific
themes such as education, health or gaming.
… we’ll be working to bring in Google’s developer community in the form
of Google Technology User Groups as an additional resource to Startup Weekend
participants.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/supporting-entrepreneurs-around-world.html

12. As of 28th Nov, 2011
USA Internationally
Nov 17th Kickoff Meeting
1
Form a Organizer
Volunteer Team to
Use Orlando
As the US Site
For the Global EDU 2 Started Conversation with
Startup Weekend NIE Faculty
Warmup Event?
Host an EDUCamp 3 Contact @ Nokia/Finland
e.g. @ Berkeley

13. For More Information
Mark Lee
mlee@alum.mit.edu
www.slideshare.net/begreatacademy
Dec 2011