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Coding without Borders: inventXYZ's Mission to Reach Every K-12 Student with Nikil Ragav

2023/12/6
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Nikil Ragav) is the CEO and founder of inventXYZ)**.**Nikil studied Electrical Engineering & Business at Penn/Wharton and interned at Intel, Google, Microsoft before starting inventXYZ. In college, he ran inventathons for middle and high school students to learn to build and code real products. He worked with schools in rural PA then remotely across the US to teach CS and electronics.For his work, Nikil was awarded Penn’s President’s Innovation Prize to start inventXYZ. NFL player Travis Kelce tweeted he was sponsoring a STEM lab for underserved kids in Kansas City. Nikil tweeted at him, and eventually inventXYZ moved to KC to help design and run the STEM lab.Now, inventXYZ makes it painless for middle and high schools across the country to teach 100% of their students Computer Science and AI even if they don’t have a dedicated teacher.Nikil has published a paper on teaching AI in K12 w/ Johns Hopkins researchers: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nai/ti/pre-prints/content-22.4nw)Recommended Resources:*inventXYZ: Preparing Students for the Future of Work)inventxyz.com)Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices inOnline Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies) by US DOEBite-sized Way to Understand Learning Science)*