The winners in the five thematic categories are the Khan Academy, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), Public.Resource.org, Shweeb and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS).

Khan Academy is a non-profit organization that provides free online tutorials on math, science, finance and history. Its online library consists of 1,600 tutorial videos. It will get $2 million from Google.

FIRST is getting $3 million for encouraging young people to be science and technology savvy through team competitions. The non-profit group founded by Segway inventor Dean Kamen organizes robotic and Lego competitions.

Public.Resource.org will get $2 million in prize to support its project to make all government documents available online for free to promote transparency.

Shweeb of New Zealander firm Agroventures Park will get $1 million to fund research and development of an urban transportation concept that uses pedal-powered transparent cars hanging from a monorail.

AIMS of Cape Town, South Africa will get $2 million to fund the opening of centers that promote math and science studies in Africa.

The overwhelming number of ideas received by Google when it launched Project 10^100 prompted it to make five categories based on the most popular themes worthy of getting funding. The categories or themes mostly chosen were free online education, science and engineering education, government transparency, transport innovation and education for Africans.