Debbie Sterling – Founder & CEO of GoldieBlox
GoldieBlox: Using narrative to engage girls in STEM Founded in 2012, GoldieBlox is an award-winning multimedia company that aims to empower girls with skills in engineering. GoldieBlox’s unique approach combines construction toys with a set of interactive books, apps and videos. It also features the world’s first female engineering character, Goldie, a curious young girl […]
Cindy Mi, Founder & CEO of VIPKID
Originally posted by Vincent Dong on May 27, 2019 Please allow me to introduce Cindy Mi, the founder and CEO of VIPKID. VIPKID is one of the largest online English tutoring companies in China, which is valued at more than $3.5 billion. It matches over 60,000 teachers in the US and Canada with over 500,000 Chinese students […]
Adriana Gascoigne, Founder of Girls in Tech
By amanda klassen on February 2, 2020 Adriana Gascoigne is the founder and CEO of Girls in Tech, a not-for-profit organization that aims to put an end to gender inequality in the technology sector. While Girls in Tech was initially founded in 2007 in San Francisco, it has since grown to include chapters in 33 countries around […]
Khan Academy- Sal Khan
Original Post by: Justin Bolivar June 10, 2017 Sal Khan and his venture Khan Academy has a mission to “provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.” They are a non-profit organization based out of the Bay Area that offers “practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard” as well as a variety of […]
Zachary Sims – Codecademy
By Ying Gu on May 28, 2019 Codecademy is an online platform that offers a variety of online coding classes to anyone wanting to learn. It offers classes on a variety of coding languages (Python, HTML, etc.), for the complete newbie or for someone looking for a skills upgrade. The lessons are interactive and invites users to […]
Hadi Partovi: Code.org
(Co-) Founder: Hadi Partovi Hadi Partovi was born and grew up in Tehran, Iran, and immigrated to the United States where his self-taught computer programming skills helped pay his way through college. Later, he graduated from Harvard with a Masters in CS, and started work with Microsoft. Hadi has been an early advisor and investor […]
Jordan Lloyd Bookey and Felix Brandon Lloyd – Zoobean (Makers of Beanstacks)
Zoobean, a discovery platform and service that curates book and app selections for each individual child. This app allows a family, a school or a library (each with their own unique platform) to design reading challenges based on having participants log their reading, complete activities, and/ or post reviews. As noted on their website, Zoobean […]
Clorama Dorvilias, Debias VR
Clorama Dorvilias, Founder and CEO, Debias VR By Mel on January 30, 2020 Debias VR is a company that creates gamified immersive experiences to combat racial and gender biases. The company was launched after Clorama Dorvilias and Jessica Outlaw won a 2017 Oculus Launch Pad scholarship* for developing the immersive experience now known as Teacher’s […]
BYJU’s Early Learning featuring Disney app
BYJU’s The Learning App is an Indian educational technology firm. The company supports learning and offers educational content to students from primary level to the higher secondary level. The latest addition to its range of learning content is BYJU’s Early Learning featuring Disney app. It helps children learn concepts of Math, English and Arts combined […]
NextMaker Box: Learn Coding at Home with Fun STEAM Projects
Now with more kids staying at home, it is certainly someone on parents/guardians’ minds on how to keep kids busy while engaging in meaningful activities. I like NextBmaker Box because it provides kids with the novelty by sending new project each month and there are also online learning course to guide users along. Here’s its […]