
Grants & Awards
Supported by highly competitive National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research grants—and honored by national EdTech awards—ObjectiveEd turns rigorous research into tools that change students’ lives. Below is a running record of the agencies and juries that have invested in or recognized our work, powering every study, prototype, and classroom rollout.
Grant Awarded: BuddyBooks for Students with Autism

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.
May
2025
Grant Awarded: Financial Fitness Adventures

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.
May
2025
BuddyBooks meets ESSA IV criteria

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".
Nov
2024
Global Tech Award for BuddyBooks, 2024

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!
Oct
2024
EdTech Breakthrough Award: Reading Solution of the Year, 2024

BuddyBooks wins EdTech Breakthrough Award for two years in a row!
Jun
2024
Grant Awarded: Kids Like Me Bookshelf for students with a disability

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.
Jun
2024
Grant Awarded: Middle School Social Skills

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.
Jun
2024
Grant Awarded: State Agency Discovery Research

IMPACT (Univ. of Pittsburgh) has awarded ObjectiveEd a grant to explore which state and local agencies could most benefit from Accessible Virtual Adventures.
Mar
2024
Grant Awarded: Accessible Virtual Adventure Customer Discovery Research

NIH has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 1 grant to determine which student populations could best benefit from Accessible Virtual Adventures
Feb
2024
Grant Awarded: BuddyBooks for Struggling Readers

The National Science Foundation has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 2 grant to enhance BuddyBooks to help all struggling readers.
Jan
2024
Grant Awarded: EF Skills for College-bound students with ADHD

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.
Sep
2023
Grant Awarded: Workplace readiness skills for ASD students

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.
Jul
2023
Grant Awarded: Middle School Social 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.
Jun
2023
EdTech Breakthrough Award: Reading Solution of the Year, 2023

BuddyBooks wins EdTech Breakthrough Award for best reading product.
Jun
2023
Grant Awarded: Social Skills for high school ASD students

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.
May
2023
Grant Awarded: BuddyBooks Customer Discovery Research

The National Science Foundation has awarded ObjectiveEd a grant supplement to determine which student populations could benefit from BuddyBooks.
Mar
2023
Grant Awarded: BuddyBooks for Students with Dyslexia

The National Science Foundation has awarded ObjectiveEd a Phase 1 grant to create BuddyBooks to improve fluency and accuracy for students with dyslexia.
Jan
2023
Bronze Award for AI in Education

ObjectiveEd won the QS Reimagine Education Bronze Award for AI in Education, co-sponsored by Wharton School of Business for BuddyBooks
Dec
2022
Grant Awarded: FirstSteps

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.
Oct
2022
Tech & Learning Award of Excellence

ObjectiveEd won the Tech & Learning Award of Excellence for the skill-building games to help students with a vision impairment.
Aug
2022
EdTechX Global Award

EdTechX Global 2022 selects ObjectiveEd as winner for significant innovation over the last year.
Jun
2022
Grant Awarded: Workplace readiness skills for students with a vision impairment

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.
Aug
2021
Grant Awarded: Math skills for young children with a vision impairment

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.
Feb
2021
Grant Awarded: Microsoft AI For Accessibility

Microsoft awards AI Accessibility grant for Braille AI Tutor to help students with a vision impairment improve braille literacy.
Oct
2019
ACB Annual Award

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.
Jul
2019
Louis Braille Touch of Genius Award

National Braille Press awards Touch of Genius Award for Braille Sheets - a sheet of braille paper on an iPad to teach early braille literacy.
Feb
2019