90 entrants from 29 countries responded to [URL=http://www.design21sdn.com/competitions/26]Design 21’s Game Changers competition[/URL], which tasked competitors with creating games that “create change by improving lives or inspiring new behaviors.”

First place went to the U.S.’s Danielle Pecora for her [URL=http://www.design21sdn.com/competitions/26/entries/9450/gallery]be-B: Braille Education Ball[/URL], which is designed to teach both the sighted and the blind Braille. The ball features 26 magnetically-attached pegs (for each letter of the alphabet) with a Braille letter on one side and a Latin letter on the other. The object of the "game" is to match each Braille peg to its corresponding spot on the ball. Pecora won $2,000 for her efforts.

Judge Emily Pilloton called Pecora’s entry, “… an exceptional concept, as it succeeds in combining purposeful aesthetics with an empathetic approach that sheds light on the experience of being visually impaired.”
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