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AT&T Inc.
25
WHERE WE CONNECT
Instilling success
in and out of the classroom
 In 2012, when we committed $250 million
in additional funding to AT&T Aspire, our program
aimed at helping underserved students graduate
from high school ready for college or careers, we
also looked to apply our collaborative innovation
style to help students succeed.
For example, we engaged the education community
in “hackathons” to create apps to increase student
success rates. In a hackathon, app developers race
against the clock to create mobile apps.
The first education hackathon attracted more
than 200 students, teachers and developers.
The winning team tackled an issue one member,
a teacher, had experienced: The time-consuming
process of assessing and tracking reading fluency.
They created an app that analyzes reading skills
in real time and makes it easy to save, record
and graph students’ scores and share them with
educators and parents.
AT&T has hosted several more education hackathons,
and we’re especially excited to see students
engaging in the process. At a hackathon in Plano,
Tex., five local high school students — Ahmed Khan,
Jimmy Zhong, Matthew Laux, Trent Davies and
Bilal Ayub (pictured above, left to right) — came
up with the winning idea — oculr, a smartphone
app for studying math equations.
“We’re uncovering great new tools that will help
future generations graduate from high school
prepared for what lies ahead, including careers
at companies like AT&T,” says Beth Shiroishi,
vice president, sustainability and philanthropy,
AT&T. “And we’ll continue to further engage the
education community as part of our broader
commitment to Aspire.”