Grants & Awards

BuddyBooks was selected as one of the best Education apps from over 2,200 submissions.

LXD Research determined 3rd-5th grade students with dyslexia who used BuddyBooks scored 30% higher on both iReady scores and Texas STAAR annual test, meeting the Every Student Succeeds Act warranting another level 3 for "Promising Evidence".

NIH/National Eye Institute has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 1 grant to create an Accessible Virtual Adventure to help high school students with a vision impairment to practice and improve their workplace readiness skills.

ObjectiveEd was selected as one of a handful of finalists in the North American Global Edtech Startups Awards Competition from thousands of applicants.

BuddyBooks was selected as one of the best Education apps from over 1,600 submissions.

IES (Federal Dept of Education) has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 1 grant to build a version of BuddyBooks for students with learning differences.

LXD Research has evaluated and determined that it meets the educational impact criteria of the Every Student Succeeds Act warranting a level 3 for "Promising Evidence".

NIDILRR has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 2 grant to convert the prototype into a full product. KLMB provides AI-assisted ghostwriting tool to empower an adult with a disability to author a role-model story for students with the same disability.

NIDILRR has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 1 grant to demonstrate the feasibility of using AI to implement methodologies shown to improve reading skills for students with autism spectrum disorder.

NIDILRR has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 1 grant to create an Accessible Virtual Adventure to help high school students with a vision impairment to practice and improve their understanding of one financial literacy concept, the Spending Plan.

LXD Research has evaluated and determined that it meets the educational impact criteria of the Every Student Succeeds Act warranting a level 4 for "Demonstrating Rationale".

ObjectiveEd just won the Global Tech Award in the Ed Tech category for BuddyBooks. Global Tech Awards recognizes outstanding achievements of tech organizations and professionals who are making an impact with technology across the world!

BuddyBooks wins EdTech Breakthrough Award for two years in a row!

NIDILRR has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 1 grant to demonstrate the feasibility of using AI-assisted ghostwriting tool to empower an adult with a disability to author a role-model story for students with the same disability.

NIDILRR has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 2 grant to create an Accessible Virtual Adventure to help middle school students with a vision impairment to practice and improve social skills.

Finalist for the best Special Needs and Assistive Tech product.

Finalist for the best Literacy and Reading product.

IMPACT (Univ. of Pittsburgh) has awarded ObjectiveEd a grant to explore which state and local agencies could most benefit from Accessible Virtual Adventures.

NIH has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 1 grant to determine which student populations could best benefit from Accessible Virtual Adventures

The National Science Foundation has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 2 grant to enhance BuddyBooks to help all struggling readers.

NIH has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 1 grant to create an Accessible Virtual Adventure to help college-bound students with ADHD practice and improve college readiness skills relating to Executive Functioning and task/time management.

NIDILRR has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 1 grant to create an Accessible Virtual Adventure to help high school with ASD to practice and improve workplace readiness skills.

NIDILRR has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 1 grant to create an Accessible Virtual Adventure to help middle school students with a vision impairment to practice and improve social skills.

BuddyBooks wins EdTech Breakthrough Award for best reading product.

NIDILRR has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 2 grant to create an Accessible Virtual Adventure to help high school with ASD to practice and improve social skills.

The National Science Foundation has awarded ObjectiveEd a grant supplement to determine which student populations could benefit from BuddyBooks.

BuddyBooks selected as runner-up for new literacy products.

The National Science Foundation has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 1 grant to create BuddyBooks to improve fluency and accuracy for students with dyslexia.

ObjectiveEd won the QS Reimagine Education Bronze Award for AI in Education, co-sponsored by Wharton School of Business for BuddyBooks

CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind) awarded ObjectiveEd a grant to create FirstSteps to help very young children with vision impairment build assistive technology skills.

ObjectiveEd won the Tech & Learning Award of Excellence for the skill-building games to help students with a vision impairment.

EdTechX Global 2022 selects ObjectiveEd as winner for significant innovation over the last year.

NIDILRR has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 1 grant to create an Accessible Virtual Adventure to help high school with ASD to practice and improve workplace readiness skills.

NIDILRR has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 1 grant to create an Accessible Virtual Adventure to help high school with a vision impairment to practice and improve workplace readiness skills.

NIH has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 1 grant to create an Sonic Math Fundamentals to help pre-K to 2nd grade students with a vision impairment early math concepts.

Microsoft awards AI Accessibility grant for Braille AI Tutor to help students with a vision impairment improve braille literacy.

The American Council of the Blind awarded ObjectiveEd with the Vernon Henley Annual Award for creating educational apps for children with vision impairments, that help these children improve their orientation & mobility and braille literacy skills.

National Braille Press awards Touch of Genius Award for Braille Sheets - a sheet of braille paper on an iPad to teach early braille literacy.