Reimagine Education Awards 2019: QS and Wharton Announce the 'Oscars' of Educational Innovation

The initiative, co-organized by QS Quacquarelli Symonds - compilers of the world's most-consulted university rankings portfolio - and The Wharton School of Business, constituted the culmination of a global awards scheme receiving 1184 applications from 39 countries. Responsible for the evaluations were 160 judges from across the educational landscape.

The 2019 Overall Winner is , which received $25,000 cash prize sponsored by Qatar University. hailing from South Africa , won the Overall EdTech Award, sponsored by Amazon Web Services, and received $25,000 worth of AWS credits.

The annual , held in San Francisco , saw the ten highest-scoring projects evaluated and voted for by ten VIP judges, including senior representatives from Microsoft, Google, IBM, Harvard University , University of Cambridge and The Wharton School, plus the gala dinner audience, comprising over 300 academic faculty, edtech founders and executives, teachers, and university leaders.

The full list of winners - including the Bronze, Silver, and Gold Award Winners for Category, Discipline, and Regional Awards - can be found at www.Reimagine-Education.com

Nunzio Quacquarelli, CEO of QS and co-founder of the Reimagine Education Awards, said: " s."