{"id":60,"date":"2013-03-10T22:39:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T05:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.getclever.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2013-03-10T22:39:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T05:39:43","slug":"sxswedu-what-a-week-for-clever-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/sxswedu-what-a-week-for-clever-2","title":{"rendered":"SXSWedu: What a Week for Clever!"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a week for Clever! The team and I spent last week at the SXSWedu Conference<\/a> in Austin, TX, and it was a real treat seeing Clever partners, participating on panels, and competing in the LAUNCHedu competition.<\/p>\n

The LAUNCHedu competition was especially thrilling \u2013 Clever was up against 100 other companies vying for the top prize. As the field narrowed we found ourselves among a truly impressive group of finalists<\/a> whom we were honored to be alongside. After making it past three tough rounds of pitching, judging, and eliminations, I’m thrilled to share that Clever took home 1st place<\/a>! Huge shout out to the SXSW Maker Space for the awesome trophy.<\/p>\n

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Our hats go off to the stellar runner up in the K-12 competition, ThinkCERCA<\/a>, who has built a brilliant digital tool to help students learn critical thinking skills.<\/p>\n

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In between LAUNCH rounds, Clever “hung out” and talked EdTech<\/a> (YouTube<\/a>) with Google EDU, Richard Culatta from the US DOE, among others. We also gave a demo of our inBloom integration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before heading back to San Francisco, the Clever team had a chance to meet Bill Gates (our second Bill<\/a>). We (of course) left him outfitted with one of the famous Clever t-shirts!<\/p>\n

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That’s just the tip of the iceberg for what was accomplished this week, but it was a truly outstanding week for Clever \u2013 thanks to those of you who were there to experience it with us & can’t wait to do it again next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a week for Clever! The team and I spent last week at the SXSWedu Conference in Austin, TX, and it was a real treat seeing Clever partners, participating on panels, and competing in the LAUNCHedu competition.<\/p>\n

The LAUNCHedu competition was especially thrilling \u2013 Clever was up against 100 other companies vying for the top prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[17],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}