TOP STAR COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS AN AI TUTOR SCHOOLS

Many people lack access to the education necessary to thrive and contribute to family and society to their fullest potential. In response,  Top star college International Schools  is developing an artificial intelligence (AI) tutor, " Teachme Helper, to vastly improve the availability of quality education worldwide.  A large body of research shows that each student achieves significantly better learning outcomes in a 1;1 ratio  tutoring environment, learning at their own pace and allowing their questions to direct how/what they are taught.  Imagine the solution in each person's hand: a personal tutor and mentor, with unlimited access to information and using best practices to stimulate learning. Students learn what is relevant to them, at their own pace, no matter their location, wealth, or social status, even without books or classrooms. With concurrent advancements in Internet accessibility, students of all ages and economic means, will learn real-world skills through  Teachme helper without charge.

Early Childhood Development was adopted in 2015 as a UN Sustainable Development Goal.  Top Star College International Schools  will address cognitive stimulation, barrier reduction and learning through personal tutoring delivered by a friendly as well as preparing children for primary school through exploration and early literacy AI avatar. 200M Nigerian  Children and 650M worldwide children under age 5 are frequently exposed to technology without adult guidance or open-ended, discovery oriented learning, which are critical for achieving the best learning outcome.   "Almost all children (96.6%) used mobile devices, and most started using before age 1. Parents gave children devices when doing house chores (70%), to keep them calm (65%), and at bedtime (29%). At age 2, most children used a device daily... Most 3- and 4-year-old used devices without help .In 2016, a quarter of a billion children and young people are out of school. Another 330 million are not learning because we fail to invest in them even when they are in school. We cannot accept another year or decade like this. It is time we started telling new stories about our children.

The goal is to reach the 160-364 Million children who don’t have regular access to education;  girls who are often left out of education opportunities, particularly in developing countries;  those with disabilities that prevent success in many schools; and those whose schools cannot provide more than basic opportunities.  Within the next 20 years, the best possible education on Earth will be delivered by AI for free — and the quality will be the same for the son or daughter of a billionaire as it is for the son or daughter of the poorest parents on the planet." At this point, many cutting-edge education opportunities, particularly ones that involve the emerging AI technology field, are only available to schools and students who can pay for this access, especially since current solutions are so expensive due to their scripted coding. Our team is developing that permanent, Scalable solution, at no cost to students.  We are working with experts in the field of AI tutoring, education, and focus groups of teachers in Nigeria and Ghana to ensure that we are developing the right approach and software Technology.

 Teachme Helper  consists of two products based on the same underlying technology:   a helper teacher for every child to be provided as an app to individuals without charge, and an  devices  for every teacher, to be sold into schools.Top Star College International Schools  will build and release  Teachme helper, an AI tutor utilizing both underlying patented  technology, to provide personalized teaching via personal devices through the internet/Cloud for students with cognitive ages of 2.5 to adult.  Top Star College  schools partners will distribute  Teachme helper through existing programs to benefit disadvantaged children everywhere. Teachme Helper will guide students through personalized lessons   taking into account each student's cognitive age,learning style and what they have already learned

 TSCIS s essential innovation is software Technology  that understands meaning from natural language.

• TSCIS Teachme is  AI-based tutor for every student and an AI-based helper for every teacher, which will increase learning  outcomes and teacher productivity.  Students will get a personalized tutor and teachers will get collaboration on course material, training and support, based on best-in-class teaching and tutoring practices from Subject Matter Experts' training of the  Techme  software.  This will free human teachers to do the more complex emotional work requiring human interaction. 
• Today, teaching and preparing lesson plans is a highly manual process, and there is a worldwide shortage of teachers especially in developing countries ;we will automate this process. 
• We’re using a similar user interface and techniques that have been proven in testing funded by the National Science Foundation at the University of Colorado at Boulder, which showed that even scripted computer-based tutoring produces results at least as good as human tutors.  However, the scripted tutoring used by UCB requires vast programming resources and can only be useful  as far as the scripts are written.  This is true of ALL existing computer-based "natural language" technologies employed to date.

 Techme Tutor is built on TSCIS enterpriseMind™ platform.  enterpriseMind is 8-9 Dimensional Hypercube of neural networks and digital processes which covers all 9 dimensions of meaning in language. It is this combinatorial processing of language at the word, sentence and story levels which forms enterpriseMind’s natural language understanding. To understand the intent  of two-way conversation, all three   levels of meaning must be processed.  In consuming textbooks and other written educational material,  Teachme Tutor can learn facts automatically, at small cost, and then scale this knowledge into a 9-dimensional semantic representation for presentation and formative evaluation of student responses.Kurt VanLehn is a Professor in the School of Computing and Informatics at Arizona State University  His research focuses on applications of artificial intelligence to education he first introduced the notion of general dialogue management for intelligent tutoring with his characterization of an intelligent tutoring session as an interplay between two Control loops,an  outer loop which executes once for each new body of lesson content, and inner loop which executes multiple times per lesson.Each inner loop is one exchange between the student and tutor,typically entailing a presentation of material, or a question, followed by a students response, which in turn stimulate formative assessments before moving on to the next tutoring move.Multiple Inner loops are executed until satisfaction of some completion criterion for completion of the outer loop.The inner loop can give feedback and hints on each step.

  Our Solution Teachme Helper An AI tutor for every child and helper to every teacher provide personalized learning through personal devices making each child to improved in his cognitive thinking    According studies published by https://wittysparks.com, Shows that in a classroom, it can become hard for a teacher to meet the expectations of all the students. For example, there might be different kinds of students present in a classroom that teachers have to deal with such as students with special needs and English as Second Language (ESL) students show how our solution address the benefit  of Using AI tutor for every  children  .companies like One Web and SpaceX to bring high-speed internet to every place on earth in the early 2020's.  Our goal is to be ready to serve those presented on the these most remote and most desperate populations with a personal tutor for everyone, focusing on critical thinking skills, before they receive this access and become addicted to video games or believe misinformation internet.

Serving now = 0.  Currently we are in pilot stage, and it is important that our solution be well-developed before we start using it to actually help children learn .Serving within 5 years = 100M +.  Once   Teachme is tested and debugged, there is no reason it cannot be rolled out to the 2.5B potential English speaking students and teachers everywhere, and to people speaking other languages that are already served by our acquired partners.  If  Teachme Helper performs as we anticipate, we will be able to obtain additional sponsors and to access a great deal of commercial and education customer revenue to support the free distribution and cloud and support services required to roll  Teachme  out as quickly as barriers to  can be overcome. Serving within 20 years = everyone with a desire to learn.

Within the next year, our goal is to continue to execute our business plan and raise at least $1M to provide fully replicable software  robust enough for demonstration that the technology works in pilot groups overseen by independent evaluation teams. We will also identify and begin to partner with other technology solutions providers to solve those portions of the final solution that others are already working on; we won't waste money/time on creating technology that already exists, such as:

• text-to-speech and speech-to-text recognition, especially for young children, non-native speakers of a language, and people with speech defects.
• visual and auditory emotion sensing and translation of appropriate responses to avatars
• avatar animation of lips, facial expressions, etc, which is also extremely beneficial for engaging young children

During the next 5 years, we will be raising additional funds to integrate this technology, reaching out to content providers and distributors as partners, and actually performing sales and distribution.  These content and distribution partners include:

• textbook publishers for all ages
• organizations engaged in reaching out to refugee, homeless, and extremely poverty-stricken populations.Importantly, we will also be selling our Ali teacher assistant solution to school districts and colleges as well as selling other solutions, such as call center automation, made possible by the underlying enterpriseMind software, in order to help raise funds for Ali final development, language re-development, marketing, and distribution .

1.  Lack of money to get the software developed and tested as quickly as possible, so we can get it into the hands of as many students and teachers are possible.  We need to be able to hire qualified software engineers to help us build it. 

2.  Delay in getting to the right partners because there are not enough of us to do the real digging that’s necessary to identify the best partners for technology and distribution.

3.  Cultural barriers for girls' education 

4.  Legal barriers for technology adoption

5 Earning Visibility and acceptance by the parents.

1.  Lack of money ...:  We need to be able to hire additional qualified software engineers to help us build  Teachme , and we are developing relationships with qualified higher learning institutions now to both understand our solution and provide advanced students and graduates to help us finalize it.  We also need money to perform frequent reviews with experts and user focus groups. Extensive testing validates the effectiveness of  TSCIS  enterpriseMind, the platform on which Ali is based. Since enterpriseMind, and therefore  Teachme  is built on IBM’s Watson platform, IBM has also committed support to ensure smooth delivery.

2.  Delay in getting to the right partners because there are not enough of us to do the real digging that’s necessary to identify the best partners for technology and distribution:  Working with MIT SOLVE would be perfect for partner identification and introduction.

3.  Cultural barriers for girls' education:  Working with existing organizations on the ground in areas where girls and women are purposefully kept from education, and in those areas where girls are under-educated due to financial constraints.

4.  Legal barriers for technology adoption:  Speaking engagements and other outreach to let parents know that we will not sell their children's data.  Money to hire appropriate legal representation when required to roll out our solution in new jurisdictions.  We will also pay attention to local education needs, create flexible adaptation plans, make assurances of student data privacy, and obtain community support, as recommended by experts and our distribution partners.

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• Full-Time Staff:10
• Part-Time Staff:0
• contractors :5

The TSCIS team  has the technological , educational and managerial experience to ensure both the development of Teachme helper and its success.

Technologically: TSCIS is led software experts who have delivered leading-edge , complex  solution to banks and many other diverse companies in Nigeria .

Soligbo Emmanuel:. CEO/CTO, Serial entrepreneur, holder of Computational programming and Technology patents driving TSCIS Solutions.

Willson Akpan: CTO/ HTML products software developer  Creating series of HTML training .

Managerial:

Ubong Inyang: CEO , Serial Entrepreneur, Mobile software computing scientist.Nigeria

Miss Victoria Joseph: COO-Educational Technology Scientist  with 5 years of working with educational technology patents.

Educational:

John Effiong: Education Manager of Nobles Schools: 10 years of chemistry science education experience, founder/manager programs High Skill for students in High schools.

• Tony  Elumelu Foundation: Selected among the 1000 winners in 2017 for seed capital as a grant for Innovation In Education.TSCIS  is currently fulfilling the proposal promises , and working with them to find funding for additional works.
• The Bridge Academic Nigeria:We have written letters to them asking for Partnership potential in evaluating pedagogical approaches used, solution potential and adoption strategy.

Our long-term value proposition is in line with this year's SOLVE Challenge:  to help children of all ages develop the critical learning and cognitive skills they need to reach their full potential, which is especially important for early childhood development, and to help parents and teachers afford the best education for all their children. 

The most pressing global education need is for an autonomous platform that can facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and critical thinking skills as effectively in a Nigerian . Without education – especially education of women – levels of poverty and socioeconomic dislocation will worsen. With education, we can harness the energy of the “youth bulge” for social and economic transformation. We believe that a scalable artificial intelligence focused on intelligent tutoring provides the best hope for a platform that can be effective under suboptimal conditions. Avatars can be adjusted to suit cultural norms. Textbooks written in one language can be automatically ingested by  TeachME and their ideas then presented in any language. Online teacher preparation communities can be adapted for parents and village elders in different language communities.  We have also seen an explosive increase in wireless and internet connectivity across the third world, enabling easier distribution of intelligent tutoring content than recruitment and placement of a ubiquitous teacher corps.  We are leveraging this wireless internet connectivity to be able to deliver a personal tutor, providing 1:1 Socratic tutoring, in the palm of one’s hand.

TSCIS has the core intellectual property.  We are looking for additional funding from both foundations and capital raise to hire the right skills for software development and subject matter experts in education, and to expand  distribution channels and educational organization affiliations.  We have started in the Nigeria and tested our ideas in  other state in the country.  We will like to partner with additional organizations and test our ideas in additional countries, such as the  Ghana (in process now).  Once the TeachME product is built, we intend to operate the educational offering from  the revenue derived from our commercial solution.

We are currently seeking sustained donations and grants to continue the development of TEACHME with the advice of the TEF Foundation.   We need to complete development in order to show TEACHME to school administrations and corporations.

From a revenue-producing perspective, we believe that in addition to the preschool and K-12 school districts that will adopt this solution ,we also focus on corporate and Government agencies and existing higher educational institutions.

•  Introduction to potential pilot users and schools for early Introduction of solution.

• .Introduction to potential corporate training partners.
• Exposure and introductions to funding organizations and Investors as well as philanthropist that do not accept unsolicited proposals to help or assist us advance and test our solution development.
• Opportunities for free speaking opportunities.
• Exposure  and advice on additional fundraising strategies.
• Meet potential partners at SOLVE events or obtain introductions thru SOLVE.
• Get useful Advice from Investors

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• Kahn Academy: To discuss the improvements to their method of teaching and discuss their facilitation of free distribution of Teachme Helper.
• The Omidyar Network and the Center on the Developing child at Harvard: as well as improving our understanding of Early childhood development needs and barriers to learning .
• NetHope:Distribution of Teachme as part of their charitable outreach using technology for public goods.
• The bridge Academy: To discuss the used of Teachme with the potential of Introducing it to their Nextwork of schools across sub-saharan Africa.
• Century Intelligence Learning : understand more about their Institute for Ethical AI in Education and how to expand it.
• Andela : For improvement of Teachme helper and scaling it up with Google for certification using their pluralsight.
• IBM Watson Education: Include Integration point wit teacher advisor .

The AI Innovation Prize is  awarded to teams that leveraged artificial intelligence to address the challenge , which is exactly the focus of our work. TSCIS Will utilized the prize to advance the development of Teachme Helper An AI Tutor  for  for Every Child and a Helper for every Teacher, So that we can get the solution into many students hands as soon as possible, as faster as possible.We will also partner with The patrick J.MCGovern Foundation and its beneficiary,Bridge Academy and NetHope.org, to facilitates distribution  to refugees  and others In Africa continent  who need it most.Andela in Futures May be interested in getting to know TSCIS and its capabilities  and investing in our future, since the natural language processing software underlying our Teachme helper which a very large Market Potential.In addition to Teachme capacity to Improved the lives of billions of people.Top Star College International School will create independently measurable and verifiable significant improved learning outcomes starting with small focus groups and expanding as fast as our means , partners and staffing allow. Our existing underlying software , EnterpriseMIND, can be used with existing technology  to create a leveraged solution to the worldwide teacher shortages and to optimize education worldwide.

Top Star College International Schools staff is much more than women,and we are all committed to providing a quality education to girls, as study after study have proven that investing in girls and women pays back many times in term of economic development of communities, health outcomes, and education of future generations.In the face of high population growth and poverty, universal access to education,especially by women, is one of the strongest forces to be harnessed for increased socioeconomic prosperity,reduced population growth, and social coherence.And yet effective delivery of quality education to communities without sufficient wealth or stability for schools and teachers remains daunting challenge  especially in  sub- Saharan Africa. We are particularly interested in partnering with any  local grassroots Organizations who promote change attitudes towards women education, like AWP Network  and her counterparts would be a wonderful partners for getting out the news about Teachme Helper and promoting its use for women worldwide. The grant from Innovation for Women Prize would be used to explore the best partnerships to form
  in order to include women education issues in our curriculum development and to identify additional information and distribution channels for Teachme to reach and positively impact the lives of women and girls.


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The level of Income and poverty greatly present a gap between the Nigerian Rich and Poor and this has significant effect/ negative Impart on education , partly due to Inequalities in educational spending starting literally from birth.There are lack of Teachers and too many inadequate or untrained teachers In Nigeria and sub -Saharan Africa, outdated , biased or inappropriate curriculum and content :, lack of  Teaching materials and Technologies :, inflexible school schedules, lack of students assessment, and insufficient national education budgets.Nigeria and Sub- Saharan countries have this problems. There are frequently insufficient adequately - skilled teachers and enough resources to provide a quality education for every child or the ability for a teacher to maintain competency in a speed  of light changing world. Technology solution attempting to address this problems have meet with a lot set back due to perceived privacy issues in some well- publicized cases ( with mixed education outcomes), which might turn Nigerian Parents against All AI solutions that could handle or solve many of these problems.TSCIS is committed to privacy of student data, and will produce compliant software that separates the personal data of students from the big databases use to improved education outcomes.TSCIS would used Innospark funds to fully incorporate and determined how to describes an publicize how our solution will not jeopardize their children privacy in any way, but will lead to improved learning outcomes in 1:1 tutoring environment.