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The 10 most innovative augmented and virtual reality companies of 2025

Fast Company Tech

Texas A&M University has brought AR/VR production into its celebrated Visualization program , letting students learn to build state-of-the-art virtual productions before they leave college. The businesses in Fast Company s Most Innovative Companies in AR/VR reflect that trend.

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Key Challenges Facing Arts And Culture Nonprofits, And How A Texas Ballet Overcomes Them

Bloomerang

Since then, student enrollment has quintupled, the budget—including scholarship grants—tripled, and outreach activities expanded through valuable community partnerships. Nick underscores the transformative impact on students: “Our students gain confidence and discipline through dance training just like in sports.

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The most innovative companies in education in 2025

Fast Company Tech

This year, the most innovative companies in the education sector are tackling a dizzying array of challenges facing students and schools alikenot to mention parents. As a teletherapy platform, Parallel Learning enables schools and special education providers to counsel students and track their progress.

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Panorama raises $60M in General Atlantic-led Series C to help schools better understand students

TechCrunch

CEO and co-founder Aaron Feuer did say the company now serves 13 million students in 23,000 schools across the United States, which means that 25% of American students are enrolled in a district served by Panorama today. . In a nutshell, the SaaS business surveys students, parents and teachers to collect actionable data.

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Texas Instruments angers hobbyists with limits to calculator programming support

The Verge

Image: Texas Instruments. Texas Instruments has removed the ability for some of its most popular calculators to run programs written in assembly or C, Cemetech reports. Hobbyists are not happy with the changes. In addition to being used as educational tools, TI calculators are also relatively simple and cheap programming devices.

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VC Ann Miura-Ko is looking to help more students answer the question: Is this idea big enough?

TechCrunch

Now, co-founding partner Ann Miura-Ko and Tyler Whittle, a senior associate with the firm, have developed a new program to help student teams similarly develop an understanding of what big ideas look like — and why most concepts are not big ideas. Are you funding these students? Were these students primarily from Stanford?

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VisionLink Supports the National Academy Foundation’s Work-Based Learning Fellows

VisionLink

Members of the NAF WBL Fellows 2014 The National Academy Foundation (NAF) is a leader in preparing high school students for college and career success.

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