Extended Senses for Learning

Team Leader

Bruce Hecht

Basic Information

Our tagline:

Apply additive manufacturing and emerging sensor design to learn by connecting to the world.

Our pitch:

What seems difficult or confusing can be transformed into human scale understanding through extending tools for perception. The solution proposes to extend perception through additive manufacturing and sensing technologies for vision, hearing, touch, and overlay of information for making sense of the world.

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Brookline, MA, USA

The dimensions of the Challenge our solution addresses:

Educators fostering 21st century skills
Supportive ecosystems for educators

About Your Solution

What makes our solution innovative:

Identifying opportunities to shift perceptive in order to enable learning.

How technology is integral to our solution:

Additive Manufacturing, enabling innovative expansion of senses, combined with new flexibility for design.

Sensing technology.

Optical and Hearing steering and focusing.

Our solution goals over the next 12 months:

Define, validate, and scale.

Our vision over the next three to five years to grow and scale our solution to affect the lives of more people:

5b learners

The key characteristics of the populations who will benefit from our solution in the next 12 months:

Urban
Rural
Suburban

The regions where we will be operating in the next 12 months:

Europe and Central Asia
US and Canada
East and Southeast Asia

How we will reach and retain our customers or beneficiaries:

Networks

About Your Team

How our solution team is organized:

For-Profit

How many people work on our solution team:

How many years we have been working on our solution:

10+ years

Partnership Potential

The types of connections and partnerships we would be most interested in if we became Solvers:

Peer-to-Peer Networking
Organizational Mentorship
Technology Mentorship
Connections to the MIT campus

Solution Team:

Bruce Hecht
CEO / CTO