Fostering relationships with the edtech development community is a pivotal part of Digital Promise’s work. By collaborating with districts, relying on learning sciences research, and incorporating broader community input through co-design opportunities, developers can create more effective and equitable educational solutions.
The VITAL Prize Challenge, a $6 million prize challenge launched by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), provided funding, resources, and capacity-building support for small teams to bring new innovations to K-12 learning, with focus on rapid and continuous learning assessment, mathematical literacy to promote a future STEM workforce, or other novel concepts and technologies to support diverse communities of K-12 student learners and teachers.
Following three competitive rounds of programming, finalists presented their minimum viable prototypes (MVP) in live pitch sessions, resulting in a first, second, and third prize-winning team for each track, with grand prize winnings of up to $250,000 per team.
From hyper-personalized career discovery to multi-sensory learning systems for students who are blind or have low vision, the award-winning teams represent a new generation of emerging educational technology products designed to improve the experiences of students who have been historically and systematically excluded from learning and education systems.
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