Ventura: Frontend Mobile Angular Developers Needed to help solve the literacy crisis
ORGANIZATION: American Youth Literacy Foundation
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Have you ever wanted to do something AMAZING to change the world but didn't know where to start?
Here is an opportunity to help underprivileged children, to help under-served children, to help ALL children, and to help adults who can't read.
You can be a part of an amazing convergence of forces that is about to change the literacy paradigm in the United States.
The Barbara Bush Foundation and Dollar General are sponsoring the $7million XPrize for Adult Literacy to incent teams from around the world to develop solutions to the literacy crisis in America. The American Youth Literacy Foundation is 100% committed to winning this competition utilizing a Real Speech(tm) reading curriculum that we have been field testing for 8 years with children around the country in our after school tutoring program. With our patented technology we are able to teach most children how to read in 12 hours or less!
The XPrize rules require us to build an android-based, smart phone/tablet (phablet) application that teaches illiterate and low literate adults how to read without any teacher or adult supervision (something akin to how Duo-Lingo teaches foreign language).
Our mission is to:
* Build the application
* Adapt our proven reading curriculum to a digital format
* Beta test in real world learning environments
* Create new, compelling curriculum to synchronize with the digital format, and
* Work as a team of highly creative and talented people to bring this app to fruition.
Currently we have more than 20 members on our team including highly skilled front and back end developers, ux designers, product developers, curriculum developers, graphic designers and more. However, we are still looking for some key people to help with Angular JS development.
Frontend Mobile Javascript Developer Skills Description
An individual who can work with our team to help people learn to read by authoring a hybrid mobile application with a game like UI powered by a RESTful API.
Experience:
- Experience with JS and modern JS frameworks
- Experience developing Hybrid mobile web applications with Ionic or similar
- HTML5/CSS3
- AngularJS
- Any game development experience is an excellent addition
- Experience working with voice recognition libraries is a plus
You can make a huge difference in helping us solve the literacy crisis by joining our XPrize volunteer team. This is an incredibly exciting and rewarding experience for a small group of developers and designers. If this is something that you feel passionate about and want to get involved in then please reply today. We need your help. Your contribution, small or large, in the development of this app, could make a difference in literally, millions of lives. Thank you! We truly look forward to hearing from you : )
Please provide cover letter and resume for this opportunity and we will contact you directly.
-The American Youth Literacy Foundation Adult Literacy XPrize Team
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Mission Statement
The Vision of FUNetix is: UNIVERSAL LITERACY. The Mission of FUNetix is: Deliver a free smartphone app that will make that vision happen. Think of what it would mean if EVERY child could learn how to read from a smartphone in 12 hours! The mission of FUNetix is simple: get the app out! Get the FUNetix 12 hours Reading App out to America's children through smartphones, laptops, desktops, tablets, and classrooms. Get the app out through partnerships with publishing companies, schools, NGOs, parents, teachers, corporations and federal, state and local governments. Universal literacy is within reach because FUNetix is able to teach reading in a way that it has never been taught before, and with a speed that has never been conceived of before. FUNetix is here, and if your child is ready, we're ready. You can start learning how to read in 12 hours, today!
Description
FUNetix is a patented, science-based, and incredibly simplified way of teaching reading to children that's available to parents and children anywhere in the United States and anywhere in the world. The FUNetix 12 hours Reading App is available in the App Store, Google Play store and Amazon App store.
FUNetix is 19-years-new, but in some ways, it is more than 2,000 years old.
Indeed, the patented FUNetix Reading Decoding System is rooted in an ancient methodology that shows readers how to see the hidden sounds in every word.
FUNetix earned its patent by borrowing the time-tested method called "diacritics" (which was developed more than 2,000 years ago by the Greeks, and adopted more than 1,000 years ago by the Hebrew and Arabic languages, to teach ALL children how to read those languages), and uniquely, completely and systematically applying it to English in a child-friendly and simple way.
FUNetix teaches children how to "map" or "marry" all 44 sounds of the English language to the letters and letter combinations that make up English words. This mapping (made easy by diacritics) takes all of the guesswork out of "sounding out" words.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Mostly OnlineVentura, CA 93009
DATE POSTED
February 21, 2022
SKILLS
- Mobile Programming
- Software Development
- Online Flash/Video Production
- Website Programming
- Software Engineering
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- as many hours as you have available