🥇 First place
ChronoQuest is an interactive digital timeline platform designed to help students explore historical connections in a dynamic and engaging way. Instead of presenting history as a series of isolated events, the platform allows users to analyze cause-and-effect relationships, compare events across regions, and recognize broader historical patterns. By viewing history through multiple visualization formats, including timeline, web, and map views, students can interact with history in ways that promote critical thinking and deeper understanding. The tool also includes guided inquiry-based activities, gamification elements, and a teacher dashboard to support structured learning experiences. By fostering historical analysis rather than rote memorization, ChronoQuest equips students with the skills to think critically about the past and its relevance to the present.
Team: Kimberly Woodruff (portfolio), Tammie Meloy (portfolio), Rebecca Liu, Dennis Slade, Paul Miller
Learn more: Presentation, Figma prototype, Video, Write up
🥈 Second place
Feedforward-opoly is a feedback training board game that transforms feedback practice into an engaging and collaborative experience. Players move across the board, completing mini-games that challenge them to deliver, analyze, and improve feedback. Each activity builds key skills, including clarity, empathy, and specificity, while encouraging self-reflection and peer interaction. The game also serves as a customizable tool, allowing educators and trainers to tailor content to different age groups, professional fields, or learning goals.
Team: Yuanyiyi Zhou, Shiyao Wei (portfolio)
Learn more: Presentation, Figma prototype, Video, Figma designs
🥉 Third place
Our proposal introduces Tia & EduScript Creator—an integrated AI-powered classroom system designed to reclaim teachers’ time and reinvigorate student engagement. By automating routine tasks, generating customized lesson materials, and seamlessly integrating with existing LMS platforms, our solution supports educators in every environment—even those with low connectivity. Built by teachers for teachers, this innovative system shifts the focus back to inspiring learning and effective instruction.
Team: Shani Roberts, Sonya Hightower-Routt, Christine Na, Jane Kimani, Jean Hess
Learn more: Presentation, Proposal
⭐ Forth place
Writing Buddy is a user-friendly Chrome extension designed to support students in real-time as they write, offering instant feedback to improve their skills. It also provides insightful recommendations for teachers, helping them enhance writing instruction in the classroom.
Team: Yancheng Pan, Greg Thompson, Sofia Wheeler, Mary Aiden Hanrahan, Shruti Gupta
Learn more: Presentation, Code, Video
🎉 Fifth place
GradeSnap automates grading by evaluating student submissions in Google Classroom (Docs, Slides, and PDFs) using AI and rubric-based assessment. Seamlessly integrated, it ensures consistency, provides instant feedback, and saves teachers valuable time.
Team: Diego Gonzalez Cruz (portfolio), Shani Singh (portfolio), Binta Moncur, Kristina Khamidullina, Henning Seip, Christy G. Mohler (portfolio)
Learn more: Presentation, Code, Demo, Design, research, supporting information
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Acumen is a tool designed to help educators save time by generating lesson plans and supporting resources without requiring advanced technical skills. Our objective is to offer a user-friendly solution that enables teachers to tailor resources to their specific needs, rather than relying on generic templates from their peers.
Team: Sidharath Chhatani (portfolio), Beth Turchioe (portfolio), Jasmine Wills (portfolio), Dinc Ozeren
Learn more: Presentation, Demo, Code, Video
Arc is a study and courseware platform that takes student's notes, conversations with AI agents, course content, curriculum frameworks, and any other plaintext data relevant to a course and creates a rich data warehouse out of them, refining student thoughts in the process of building cognitive skills in students by mirroring their progress in conceptualizing and understanding the material. It does this through Snowflake Cortex's NLP and LLM tools as well as a 3D game world powered by Next JS and custom triple A realistic environmental 3D assets by Jake Wilcox.
Team: David Diagama (portfolio), Jake Wilcox (portfolio)
Learn more: Presenation, Video, Website, Demo
AI-driven app for female college students with ADHD to thrive academically.
Team: Neha Agarwal, Angelo Nardo, Suzanne Wu (portfolio), Ruoyang Liu, Lina Trifon, Alison Mei
Learn more: Presentation, Demo, Video
ChatterCheck is an AI-powered platform that fosters a growth mindset by analyzing classroom interactions in educational environments. It transcribes teacher speech, identifies fixed mindset language, and suggests growth-oriented reframes. The system aims to support teachers with real-time feedback and insights on communication trends.
Team: Doc
Learn more: Presentation, Code, Demo, Project Brief, Technical Documentation, User Research, Collaboration Board, Competitive Analysis, Figma
In low-resource settings, emotional challenges hold back students' ability to succeed in maths, limiting their opportunities. The Learning Resilience System will equip teachers with an accessible toolkit for planning and scaffolding student goal-setting, check-ins, and reflection, helping students build motivation and resilience. By supporting 21.5 million students struggling with maths and 10.5 million out-of-school children in Nigeria, the Learning Resilience System will help them develop mindset to overcome learning challenges and thrive.
Team: Samaila Goje
Learn more: Presentation, Demo
LessonLinks serves as a community forum for teachers to request resources they need for their classroom and for resource creators and sellers to get inspiration and showcase their products.
For a teacher to request a resource, they will need to provide details such as the grade level, subject, format type, and a description of what they are looking for. This will then be posted onto the "See Requests" page where users are able to view each submission in a thread. A similar process is present for creators, however, in their form a link to their website with more information and the price of their product should be included before submitting as well. These submissions will show in the "Browse Resources" page, so teachers may look through and contact a seller directly without any need to make their own request.
Team: Wendy Ham (portfolio), Allison Crenshaw (portfolio), Saniya Vyas (portfolio), Julianna Messineo (portfolio), Jolene Kearse (portfolio)
Learn more: Presentation, Code, Demo
MuseoGo is an AI-powered EdTech platform that transforms traditional museum visits into interactive, personalized learning experiences for families. Our solution leverages tailored itinerary planning, real-time interactive Q&A, and post-visit reinforcement to enhance engagement and retention for young learners. By bridging the gap between static exhibits and dynamic learning, MuseoGo makes every museum visit both educational and unforgettable.
Team: Ruby Ren (portfolio), Yue Zhao (portfolio)
Learn more: Presentation, Video, Website, Demo
RootSpark is a Comprehensive Language Learning Platform that features tools like MeaningFul Connections, Games, Interactive Story Builder, AI Pronunciation Coach. It combines live one-on-one lessons with engaging, self-paced activities. Parents can monitor progress, receive homework reminders, and communicate with teachers. Integrates video conferencing for seamless virtual lessons.
Team: Jessica Chang (portfolio), Jessica Chen, Nour Bireedo (portfolio), Rachel Blomquist (portfolio), Rachel Stein (portfolio), Tracy Hayes (portfolio)
Learn more: Presentation