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According to the Learnerator website, when cool person in technology Luke Liu was in high school, he took 11 AP courses and exams, experiencing much difficulty and stress when trying to study for them with only textbooks and notes.  This past experience gave him the necessary motivation to found a technology company designed to help students with their AP exams.  Liu’s company, Learnerator, provides students with an interactive studying and practice resource online to help them with their AP examinations.  Learnerator provides students with practice tests for nineteen different AP exams including Calculus, Biology and Computer Science.  Students can take the tests as often as they like and find explanations for all the answers they got incorrect on previous attempts.  Liu believes that an interactive experience such as the one he provides with Learnerator can be more effective for many students than simply reading and re-reading static study material for hours.  Any students who have trouble using the Learnerator site should seek online tech support for help with the product. Read more »

For decades, watching and studying game film has been a constant source of help for high school and college athletic teams.  Taping performances to learn from mistakes and discover where certain strategies work and don’t work is something that varsity coaches in dozens of sports do for their players.  However, athletes do not always have an easy time learning from the tape presented to them.  Not every player knows exactly what to look for or what the most important elements of their performances to inspect are when studying tape.  This lack of understanding can frustrate coaches and prevent time studying film from being productive for athletes.  Cool person in technology Vasu Kulkarni founded his company Krossover to prevent this from happening to high school, college and even professional sports teams. Read more »

Many high school and college students have experienced that moment of panic where they sit down to write their final paper and draw a sudden blank on how to approach it.  Many times primary sources and notes don’t seem to help and the student just can’t figure out how to structure their argument or tackle the necessary issues.  Cool product WriteWork wants to help students overcome this moment of panic by offering them the chance to see how others before them have attacked similar topics.  WriteWork is an online resource that offers students a database of over 120,000 sample essays covering a range of topics for students to use as resources and inspiration in their own essays.  Read more »

The computer programming field looks about as exciting to most people as mowing their lawn with a pair of scissors. We imagine a field dominated by spastic geeks, hovering in lightless rooms over screens full of green Matrix code zooming past their eyes while they somehow magically decipher it. CodeNow is a nonprofit that decided to make computer programming accessible to inner city high-schoolers by making it fun!  Read more »