Chicago — Avantis Schooling, the chief in digital actuality expertise for Ok-12 faculties, was named a winner within the Educators Decide Better of STEM® 2024 Awards. The corporate’s flagship product, ClassVR, received within the Trailblazer: Immersive Actuality (AR/VR) class. That is the second yr in a row Avantis has received this award.
“Digital actuality is a robust instrument to assist instruction and interact college students in all topic areas, together with STEM and we’re honored to earn this recognition,” mentioned Avantis CEO Huw Williams. “This award is judged by STEM educators which makes this win much more significant.”
The awards program, operated in partnership with the Nationwide Science Educating Affiliation (NSTA), MCH Strategic Knowledge, and the Nationwide Affiliation of Biology Academics (NABT), acknowledges modern merchandise, applied sciences, and companies which are altering the world of STEM schooling. It’s judged by a panel of professional STEM educators in a two-part analysis course of.
“The 2024 Better of STEM winners had been chosen by educators for his or her innovation, cross-disciplinary strategy, and deal with offering college students with alternatives to handle real-world challenges,” mentioned Daylene Lengthy, CEO of Catapult X and founding father of the Better of STEM Awards, in a press release asserting the winners. “Judges famous these forward-thinking firms ship transformative instruments that enrich classroom experiences and encourage college students to have interaction thoughtfully with the world round them.”
ClassVR is an all-in-one VR/AR headset and content material platform designed particularly for Ok-12 lecture rooms. It consists of all {hardware}, software program, instruments, coaching, assist and implementation companies wanted to deploy VR/AR within the classroom. It additionally gives entry to the Eduverse platform, ClassVR’s strong library of content material which supplies academics entry to a whole bunch of hundreds of items of VR and AR content material and sources to boost classes and interact college students extra deeply of their studying.
“ClassVR undoubtedly discovered a novel area of interest throughout the VR studying surroundings,” commented an Educator Choose for the Better of STEM 2024. “Their platform works inside 90-95 p.c of varied (working techniques and gadgets) and their dynamic studying administration system solves frequent scholar privateness points (present in) VR platforms. With the addition of Eduverse, their built-in MDM system simply tracks scholar use, IP and MAC deal with, (and) wi-fi community connections. ClassVR capitalizes on a easy plug and play framework, utilizing QR codes to simply handle wi-fi community connections.”
For the complete listing of winners, go to www.bestofstemawards.com/2024-winners-of-best-of-stem/.
For extra details about Avantis and its choices, go to www.avantiseducation.com and www.classvr.com.
About Avantis
Avantis Schooling, the creators of ClassVR, gives easy classroom expertise utilized by greater than 2 million college students in 200,000 lecture rooms in over 90 nations.
The world’s first digital actuality expertise designed only for schooling gives all the pieces a faculty must seamlessly implement VR expertise in any classroom, all at an reasonably priced worth. To be taught extra go to www.avantiseducation.com and www.classvr.com.
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