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60 SXSWedu 2016 Launch Silver Spring, MD admit.me Admit.me connects millions of global applications with college students, and admissions experts to receive insights and actionable feedback at an affordable price. Ann Arbor, MI alchem.ie Alchemie builds mobile games for higher education, beginning with a huge pain point: organic chemistry. By layering of multiple learning cues - kinesthetic, audio, and visual - into engaging game-play, students have a new method to make sense of the visual- spatial ideas at the core of understanding chemistry and science San Francisco, CA elsanow.io ELSA is the world's best educational mobile app for language learners to improve pronunciation and reduce accent, utilizing in-house speech recognition, automated feedback and deep learning technology. Our vision is to enable 1.5 billion learners to increase language fluency at the lowest cost and unlock new opportunities. Pittsburgh, PA expii.com Expii engages Crowdsourcing and Mobile to disrupt the Education space. We make it easy for non- technical people to create, organize, and rate interactive content (with videos, Q&A, and more), all of which is designed to turn your mobile phone into an automated tutor in your pocket. Chestnut Hill, MA listencurrent.com Listen Current delivers listening experiences that spark learning! We curate the best of public radio to keep teaching connected to the real world and build student listening skills at the same time. New York, NY paragonone.com Paragon One is a video coaching marketplace and adaptive learning platform which guides international students to career success in the U.S. and abroad. Using proprietary algorithms and curriculum, international students are matched with a network of industry experts for training tailored to the challenges of succeeding in the U.S. Jamaica Plain, MA parachuteteachers.com Parachute Teachers is reimagining the role of the substitute teacher by sharing the talents of the local community with schools through an online marketplace. Instead of sitting students in front of a movie for the day, parachute in one of our teachers to teach yoga, photography, robotics and more. New Orleans, LA smartcoos.com Smart Coos is where parents can get live lan- guage sessions for their littlest learner. Smart Coos web-based plat- form provides young children, newborns to age 16, the opportunity to learn a second lan- guage with a combina- tion of live-language sessions and automated text nudges based on a language curriculum. Guadalupe, Nuevo León, México territoriumlife.com Territorium is a gami- fied social network for education in which stu- dents learn by projects, by teaching others and by solving challenges that are recognized with gamification while the platform measures the abilities and compe- tences they develop. Washington, D.C. wordsliive.org Words Liive is a literacy augmentation start-up founded upon a patent- ed a teaching process called CGI (Contempo- rary Grammar Inte- gration) that isolates grammar structures in popular music, social media and computer coding to teach reading and writing skills for traditional literature. Launch Finalists Get live online language classes at home for your littlest learner.