Katerine Franco Cardenas is a technology teacher working in elementary school : Institucion Educativa Jose Asuncion Silva in Medellin in Colombia.
Her most well-known internal work is project: “Friends without Borders- A Learning adventure with ICT” and she is the coordinator of this project. In this project, her focus is on team work to generate interaction, communication, mutual respect and shared knowledge building. Lessons include the creation of audio stories, digital stories, digital cartoons, digital newspapers, letter writing, an online TV channel, spontaneous writing, culture, languages, places, improving reading, writing, mutual respect, respect for intercultural issues, etc. through technology. Also technologically mediated cultural exchanges – connecting her students with classes in Chile, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the USA, Mexico and Ecuador.
Katerine has trained her colleagues on integrating technology into the classroom and enabling students to develop 21st century skills. Attendance has improved, and literacy and communication skills have developed considerably compared to students not taking part in her projects. About 450 students have been participating and benefited from primary since 2012

David W. Deeds is working as Technology Integrator/Teacher in Yew Wah International Education School of Yantai, China. He is pioneer in game – based learning, 3D virtual worlds in classroom. Many article has been published in international publications. He is Google Certified Teacher. He participated in several international conferences and presently his innovative ideas. He designed, developed and delivered IB-style K-12 technology. He trained Malaysian teachers for IB professional development. He has teaching experience in many countries like USA, South Korea, China and Mexico.
He served on 2013-15, New Media Consortium (NMC) K – 12 Horizon Report Advisory Board to produce K-12 Horizon Report. He facilitated Connect with China Collaborative, a Flat Connections Project. He was in the panellist for Open Simulator Community Conference – 2014. Higher ed titles: Technology Specialist, International Business Department and Computer Science Professor, Teacher/CALL Manager, Website Manager.He has 15 years corporate computer experience and contributing to virtual educational journal regularly.

Maarit Rossi is a math teacher in comprehensive school and an entrepreneur in Finland. Her passion is to teach math and develop math education so that it is engaging meaningful and even fun for all children. She has been declared as one of the TOP50 Finalists in Global Teacher Price 2016. She has also got Recognition Award from the LUMA (STEM) Centre of Finland because of promotion and development of Math teaching 2016. She was concerned that many students would rather do almost anything than learn maths.
She believed that the problem was entirely due to the way mathematics is commonly taught. She has realized that math teaching has not changed during the last 100 years after doing analysis of math lessons around the globe. So he has developed his own innovative methodoly of teaching math by asking students to collaborate in groups and solve real-life problems.
Her school has got high points in PISA research during the years. When Finland has been first in many PISA studies. Her school has been above average inside Finland. The biggest beneficiaries are the students. She has co-authored nine mathematics textbooks and several books about maths education. She was involved in shaping the 2004 national curriculum and created modern teaching materials for STEM subjects on behalf of the Economic Information Bureau. In order to share her approach even further, she developed her ‘Paths to Math’ e-learning programme. She has been featured in the Huffington Post and on Finnish and Korean TV.

Hassan Fakhoury is the grade 11th vocational training department student in Al Hanan School, in city Tyre in Lebanon country. He is suffering from the Down syndrome (genetic disorder associated with chromosome 21 since childhood.
He is highly considered to be a typical role model of students with special needs who could really make a difference in their live and in the lives of those around them. It all started when a special educator Essa Al-Moussawy at Hanan School who was an expert in photography – discovered Hassan’s love to photography. Hassan continuously used to ask his teacher to let him give a try in shooting photo. After that his teacher gave him proper training for photography.
When his parents brought him a private professional camera, he became an inspiration for other students in the school to join photography class. He used to capture kids with Down syndrome while playing around.He became the representative of the school in photography in indoor and outdoor activities during social integration programs with other schools in the district. His photographs were adopted and presented on famous social media website and became well known locally and globally. By his stunning hard work, his photos will be proudly used this year in photo therapy session for kids with Down syndrome.
Hassan become the brilliant Down Syndrome guy who could develop his skills and become a distinguished student and acquired a new profession that will help him to be a fruitful productive citizen in his society.He has become a global icon for the others who are suffering from various genetic and chronic diseases. He has proved that people suffering from such diseases can also have equal ambition to fulfil and live their life respectfully in society.