Amazon Alexa EdTech Skills Challenge

Healthy Teen Network is a national nonprofit organization that works at the intersection of public health, human-centered design, and technology. They develop innovative educational solutions to improve the sexual health outcomes of young people.

Their Hush Hush skill offers a trusted, confidential mentor to support students who feel left out of traditional sex-ed programming or want to take concrete steps to improve their sexual health. Hush Hush provides students with four general topics to talk about: birth control, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), healthy relationships, and sexual orientation and gender identity.

NuMoola is an educational, family-focused consumer banking financial technology platform. Their software enables full family engagement in the financial well-being of a child through child-focused tools for personal savings, goal setting, investing, charitable giving, and gamified financial education. NuMoola’s banking and educational services create engaged customers across the entire family network.

The NuMoola skill helps children and their families learn fundamental financial concepts through interactive lessons, games, and comprehension activities. This engaging program meets the needs of diverse learners and is anchored in National Financial Literacy Standards to promote essential life skills.

SayKid is a voice technology company that has developed the world’s first screen-less, play-based learning platform. By combining conversational software in the form of an Alexa-enabled plush robot, SayKid helps kids learn in a safe, natural, and engaging way by playing the role of teacher.

Designed for use with SayKid’s learning platform, their Letter Game skill introduces letter sounds in individual or group settings and children play the role of teacher to help a robot learn letters of the alphabet. Children are given words and need to think of the beginning letter that corresponds to that word.

StrongMind partners with schools to build innovative digital learning solutions that address unique school challenges. With a consultative approach, engaging curriculum, leading-edge assessments, advanced reporting and analytics, and a mobile engagement engine, plus educational services, StrongMind supports student achievement and school success.

For generations, parents have struggled to have effective conversations with their children about their education. The StrongMind skill provides parents with just enough information to have focused, meaningful conversations with their child about his or her actual schoolwork, rather than asking broad, open-ended questions. These targeted conversations not only bolster academic outcomes but also strengthen family communication and relationships.