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Supporting the next generation
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2023-2024 Winners
Rapid and Continuous Learning Assessment
Advancing measures and tools that dramatically increase the speed and utility of student learning information for educators, students, and families.
1st place winner
Dreami
Location: Redwood City, CA Product Focus: Dreami powers hyper-personalized and data-driven career readiness programs for underserved rural learners.
2nd place winner
Junior Scientist Maker Program
Location: L.A./N.Y.
Product Focus:Tackling the nation's science literacy issues where they begin - in elementary school - by harnessing the powers of media, hands-on learning, and citizen science.
3rd place winner
FrenalyticsEDU
Location: New York, NY
Product Focus: Personalized learning & automated progress monitoring tools to empower students & staff in special education and English Language Learner classrooms.
Mathematical Literacy to Promote a Future STEM Workforce
Advancing a student's capacity to employ fundamental critical thinking skills and quantitative reasoning in a variety of contexts.
1st place winner
trubel&co
Location: San Francisco, CA
Product Focus: Mapping Justice is a learning platform that teaches high school youth to design geospatial tools for social change, where students control their own narrative, explore the intersection of Race, Power, & Technology, and create digital apps & dashboards that tackle community-
based challenges. We champion those proximate to inequity to innovate for social change, tackling social and environmental disparities using equitable data analytics, responsible technology, and inclusive design. Our mission is to accelerate liberatory innovation, as we empower the next generation with the opportunity and tools to fix the problems they care about the most.
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2nd place winner
alchemie
Location: Southeast Michigan
Product Focus: Alchemie's mission is to transform STEM education through exploratory and accessible learning. Our Kasi Math system allows all students, including those who are blind or have low-vision, to work together using a multi-sensory interface for digital learning.
3rd place winner
Tyto Online
Location:Buffalo, NY
Product Focus: Tyto Online sets up real-world, problem-based learning in math, using a video game. Students experience the "why" in math, set in a meaningful context, and with an open, visual, inquiry-based approach that research shows can powerfully improve math understanding.
Other Innovations in Translational Learning Technologies
Advancing novel concepts and technologies for diverse communities of K-12 student learners and teachers, outside of assessment and mathematical literacy.
1st place winner
Dissect 360 Brain Anatomy in 3D
Location: Chicago, IL
Product Focus:High Resolution digital 3D anatomical models with game based learning.
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2nd place winner
SING AND SPEAK 4 KIDS
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Product Focus: Early Childhood Speech-Language development.
3rd place winner
Social Optics
Location:Bozeman, MT
Product Focus: Whole Child Learning / Soft Skill Development for Students with Autism and Social Communication Challenges.
Learn More
The VITAL Prize Challenge is supported by a partnership between the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Schmidt Futures, and the Walton Family Foundation. Read more about the partnership
here.
Applications are closed and the full prize challenge will run through January 2024,
rules and conditions apply. Sign up for the mailing list to learn more about the challenge and receive key details, dates, and deadlines as they are released. You can also reach out to us with questions at
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Are you an educator that wants to improve educational technology products for every learner, particularly those that have been historically underserved? Learn more about how you can support the VITAL Prize Challenge as an Educator Mentor here.
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