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Udacity: Secondary School Challenge winners announced; More than 14,000 units completed
Over the summer months, students around the world have been taking Udacity classes for a chance to win an all expenses-paid trip to Silicon Valley, sponsored by Battelle. On their trip, Sebastian Thrun, Udacity CEO, will take the winners on a tour through the Udacity offices and the Stanford Intelligence Labs.Since June, 408 teams competed with over 2,591 students participating in the challenge, and seven team shave been named the winners:The Top Teams are: Team Renaissance from Bergen Country Academies, NJ Team NYC from The Dalton School, NY Team Freehold from Freehold High School, NJ Gerard's Team from San Francisco de Asis, Dominican Republic Team Daphne and Aaron from Needham High School, MA Team FlyingNinjas from Texas Academy of Math and Sciences, TX Team DEE35 from Calday Grammar School, UK The rules were simple: two team captains, who must be attending secondary school, can form a team. From there, captains recruit teammates, who do not have to be attending secondary school, a…