A company that helps kids learn to read is one of five startups to receive a $25,000 grant from Canada's Prince Edward Island.
QuestRead is developing an app to help motivate kids to read, the CBC reports.
"It also allows us to be able to assess and monitor a child's reading progress because the app listens to the child as they are reading and assesses and adapts to their needs," says co-founder Janessa Ferrell.
Another recipient is Jeremy MacAulay, who with his father developed a curling rock handle that tracks ice conditions and speed.
"It's been a long time coming but we're excited to actually take some of those ideas from my father's head and actually give a product out there to the world," says MacAulay, whose company also received a grant.
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Caroline Diehl is a serial social entrepreneur in the impact media space. She is Executive Chair and Founder of the UK’s only charitable and co-operatively owned national broadcast television channel Together TV, the leading broadcaster for social change runs a national TV channel in the UK and digital platform which helps people find inspiration to do good in their lives and communities.