It is said that innovation is the ability to identify a gap in the market and create something that fills that gap, or to find a better way of doing something that’s already being done. The Yass Prize has spent 30 months building the capacity to foster precisely that concept. This brief report into the past year — and a little more — is designed to help those who don’t have time to follow us regularly on social, or email or in the media to learn a little more and perhaps find a way to join us by spreading the word, building momentum in your own communities, and creating policies and laws that advance and protect the work that is so necessary to the nation’s survival — an educated, engaged and resilient populace.