ALL ABOUT CONNECTION The winning entry in this year’s INA competition — StorySky, an app to connect grandparents and children — reflected the contest's focus on technology to help overcome the isolation imposed by the COVID pandemic. Ed Tech TC’s student EdTech showcase yields tools for overcoming social distance When first-year students David Zikovitz (Instructional Technology & Media), Ying-Chen Lin (Instructional Technology & Media), Mulan Fu (Design & Development of Digital Games) and Marina Lemee (Computing in Education) teamed up to enter Teachers College’s 2020 EdTech Innovation Award (INA) Showcase, they had only a vague idea about creating some kind of online socialization app for children.