Ahead of the Johns Hopkins Social Innovation Lab’s Impact and Innovation Forum on April 21, we’re profiling the entrepreneurs that are part of the current cohort.
Here’s a look at three startups addressing gaps in education:
Hero Lab
Each student in a group of middle-schoolers gathered by Hero Lab shared a common experience: losing a friend or family member to violence.
“Doing well in eighth grade isn’t really on their radar when there are life and death issues” at home, said Hero Lab’sSiddhi Sundar. She and cofounder Adil Qureshi believe confronting these adverse childhood experiences (ACEs, in education circles) at school can also help give students more hope and optimism, and the resilience required to improve in the classroom.
Read more at Technical.ly Baltimore
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