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2010 Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation
We are now accepting applications for the 2010 Touch of Genius Prize for Innvoation. If you are interested in applying or nominating another innovation, please read the submission document and download the application. Applications are due May 24, 2010.


2009 Winner Announced!
Thank you to all of our 2009 Touch of Genius Prize applicants. Our 2009 winner is Jeffrey Killebrew and his submission of "The System for Conceptualizing Spatial Concepts" or (SC)2. (SC)2 is an exciting new teaching method for blind and visually impaired students that introduces spatial concepts such as linear math problems and measurement.


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 non-profit organizations that are dedicated to assisting the blind and those who are otherwise challenged.

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