• Question: How would the money benefit my school?

    Asked by Reggae Shark to Anna, George, Jodi, Rob, Stefan on 12 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Jodi Schneider

      Jodi Schneider answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      It wouldn’t benefit your school directly — but it would benefit your community. Especially grandparents, parents, & kids who take medicine.

      Free online information like Wikipedia is used A LOT — even when it’s not the best information available. My goal is to get the best possible info into free sources like Wikipedia — and to help make sure it can be maintained. Right now I’m working with pharmacists, people who teach future pharmacists, and scientists who make computer tools about medication safety — they don’t know a lot about Wikipedia but they know that doctors and pharmacists use it sometimes. If I win, the money would go to training people about Wikipedia, to help improve the information about medications.

      In the long run, we want medication info to be as good or better as the info on ebola (which is really well maintained!).

    • Photo: Stefan Lines

      Stefan Lines answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      Hi Reggae Shark. It’s very likely I would be able to send your school a Raspberry Pi if I won the money. I’d send you a modified one, which could be used as a weather station. You’d be able to check whether it was raining at your school before you even left home…

      The data from the weather station would be great for data analysis, and used alongside learning programming. Your school could also upload the weather data to the internet, and be a part of a network which senses the weather in real-time.

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