Israeli language AI startup Storywizard.ai won the Global Edtech Startup Awards (GESA) in London last Thursday, according to a recent press release about the event.
According to a release, GESA is the world's largest edtech competition attracting more than 3,000 applicants and was founded by MindCET (CET) CEO Avi Varshavsky to foster international edtech entrepreneurship. Ta. The competition spans 134 countries and his community of over 6,000 startups in the edtech space.
The winning AI startup, Storywizard, was founded a year ago by Israeli fathers of young children Ofir Karkar and Nadav Yaron as a way for parents and children to create their own bedtime stories. Developed.
“Our products utilize advanced artificial intelligence technology, so children can create, edit and illustrate their own bedtime stories in their areas of interest,” explained Kirker. .
GESA is the world's largest technology competition
However, Kerker and Yaron go on to explain that Storywizard's potential in education quickly became apparent. Teachers around the world began using this program to develop teaching tools in their classrooms. To date, this program is used in over 1,500 of his schools around the world.
“This platform allows students to create complete stories in their areas of interest and according to the pedagogical framework defined by their teachers,” they said.
This program greatly contributed to student participation, primarily because students were able to actively contribute to the creation of the learning materials. The program also allows you to monitor progress and adjust tasks on an individual level.
Despite being in its early stages, the startup has already won a digital content tender from the Israeli Ministry of Education and will be rolled out to hundreds of Israeli schools starting in September 2023.
Two months ago, veteran US EdTech entrepreneur and former teacher Ogden Morse joined the startup as CEO with the goal of establishing the company in the US education market.
CET CEO Yossi Bidets congratulated the winners and added:[we] We are proud to announce that Israeli startup Storywizard.ai has won first place in the innovation category. ”
