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3D Printer Kit

Alumni

DIY Build

Art, culture and entertainment

Community empowerment

Consumer goods

Education

Hardware Engineering & Robotics

Software Engineering

Advanced

Digital Fabrication

Electronics
The Project 3D Printer Kit aims to provide Makerspace users with an instruction manual for constructing a 3D printer using materials available at SPH Makerspace. The manual will detail the specific SPH machines and tools required for the assembly. Additionally, it will guide users on how to acquire components not stocked in the Makerspace shop, such as extruders and electronic boards. This project aims to offer ETH students a platform for learning about and delving into 3D printer design....
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AlpsAdmin

Active

Education

Hospitality and tourism
Welcome to AlpsAdmin, your partner in elevating paragliding school management to new heights. Our comprehensive software platform is tailored to meet the unique needs of paragliding schools, providing intuitive tools to streamline operations and enhance the student experience.With our software solution, paragliding schools can focus on what they do best: Providing exceptional training and experiences for their students. Our platform integrates essential tools such as flight planning, flight signups, and student progress tracking to ensure efficient operations of the everyday actions. ...
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AtlasVR AG

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Education

Software Engineering
AtlasVR AG was founded in the end of 2021 by Joy, Valentin and Christian, three PhD students at the Innovation Center Virtual Reality. Our vision is to revolutionize vocational training procedures by harnessing the immense socioeconomic potential of Virtual Reality (VR) technology. Our VR training solutions enable active learning with an intuitive learning-by-doing approach, saving substantial costs compared to real world training, while increasing trainee motivation and engagement. We entirely focus on a B2B model, specifically in the Swiss MEM industries as our target customers. With our end-to-end offering, we accompany our customers from initial contact with the technology via implementation to on-site roll-out with options for service maintenance long after development. We are currently implementing and refining our pilot projects and demonstrators and work with our first customers on their individualized training solutions....
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Bloom Lab

Active

Community empowerment

Education

Software Engineering
We’re Lucie and Blanche, fascinated by the complexity of nature and driven to explore how interdisciplinary science can decode biology and inspire new ways of thinking. We met at EPFL, collaborating on coding projects and a startup, and discovered the thrill of building ambitious ideas together. At Harvard and MIT, we developed our first polymath project on aging and biological relativity, and back in Europe we founded Bloom Lab, reimagining how science can be done. So far, we’ve launched our social media presence on X and Instagram, published our first blog post on Substack, and planned a 3-day research hackathon at the SPH. Our main goal is to build a strong community of polymaths, empowering curiosity through events that bring together professors, industry leaders, and students from different fields to think deeply about life’s most important questions....
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BuildMeUp

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Looking for a team member

Education

Hardware Engineering & Robotics

Social Impact
Empowering students to pursue a career in STEM (MINT). I want to inspire gymnasium-level students to discover robotics as a tool for solving real-world problems. By building and experimenting, they develop a mindset that blends human adaptiveness with machine capabilities. They should gain confidence in their skills and notice opportunities around them where technology can make a difference. Just as importantly, I want to demystify engineering by showing that progress comes from simplifying intelligently. As a student, I believed real engineering would be dull and “crazy complicated” because high-school simplifications wouldn’t apply. Now the goal is to show that choosing the right simplifications is powerful - and often the most exciting part of engineering: knowing what matters and what can be left out of the model. All models are wrong, but some are useful....
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CRATER

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Association/Club/Competition-Team

Aerospace, automotive and nautical industries

Education
Project CRATER is a hands-on student project building modular systems for Mars-like exploration, navigation, and scientific discovery. We're solving tasks such as autonomous controls, robotic arm manipulation, scientific planning, resource extraction and autonomous droning. The European Rover Challenge is one of the world's leading space robotics competitions, supported by ESA and NASA experts. We're using the Competition to establish a baseline for future student exploration robotics at ETH. Originally, we focused on in-situ resource utilization technologies, but we quickly realized we need a mobile transport platform to make any of it usable in the field. With our strong background in robotics and experience in international teams, we saw this competition as the perfect launchpad to build ETH’s first student robotic rover! ...
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EduForma

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Looking for a team member

Community empowerment

Data-driven & Machine Learning

Education
The Mission:EduForma is an AI co-pilot that automates the entire planning workflow for Swiss teachers—from high-level yearly roadmaps to granular lesson plans. By solving the complex mapping of Lehrplan 21, we eliminate administrative burnout and return the focus to high-quality teaching.The Tech & StatusI have developed a functional MVP (FastAPI/React) integrated with LLMs, hosted on a secure Azure (CH) infrastructure. The core engine is built to handle localized curriculum data and is currently undergoing internal testing.The GoalMy immediate priority is to gather direct user feedback from Swiss educators to refine the UX and functionality. The ultimate vision is to transform the Swiss education system by making compliant, high-standard lesson preparation an effortless, 5-minute task....
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Engineers for Science

Alumni

Community empowerment

Data-driven & Machine Learning

Education

Software Engineering
Engineers for Science is an initiative around promoting software engineering best practices in research. We believe that great science requires great software. Unfortunately, many researchers struggle to write effective code, leading to poor software quality, slowing down scientific progress. That's where we come in. We connect researchers with experienced software engineers from the industry who can provide valuable feedback and guidance on best practices for software development. You can learn about some of these principles in our blog. By partnering with Engineers for Science, researchers can ensure that their software is a robust tool for their research and not a hindrance, enabling them to focus on their scientific discoveries. But it's not just about helping researchers. Our initiative also benefits software engineers who are looking to gain experience in mentorship and leadership. By working with researchers, the engineers can gain valuable insights into the latest scientific discoveries and can apply their skills in new and exciting ways. Join Engineers for Science today and help us bridge the gap between science and software engineering. Together, we can create better software and drive scientific progress forward....
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EQUIPSENT

Active

Education

Environmental Sustainability

Global development

Social Impact
***On the mission to Enable Education, Everywhere***In a world where a significant number of schools and laboratories have no access to suitable equipment for teaching and research activities, EquipSent steps in to make a difference.EquipSent collects functioning equipment that is no longer required from well-funded research institutions, corporate partners and schools mainly in chemical, biological and physical sciences, and distributes it among suitable destinations, according to the receiver’s needs. In this way, not only instrumentation gets a second life, reducing waste production, but students in places with fewer resources have access to hands-on education. ...
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Eureka! Microscope

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Looking for a team member

Consumer Apps

Consumer goods

Education

Hardware Engineering & Robotics
Portable microscope for fun and science education. Our vision is to democratize the fun of nature discovery and to connect people with the environment in a unique way. We encourage people to explore the hidden wonder of nature and to learn the scientific knowledge behind. We have developed a prototype with a resolution of 1.6µm and multiple visual effects, at a price of $200. We secured pilot customers with CHF 13k in commitment, got CHF 10k from Venture Kick, and built a waitlist of 100+ early adopters. Our main goal is to turn microscopes into a new category of consumer electronics by offering not just hardware, but also an app for discovery and curiosity. Siyi, the CEO of Eureka! Microscope, found microscopy very fascinating. After realizing most people in the world can't enjoy the experience because a good product hasn't existed yet, she invited her friend Yu (CTO), who is passionate about cool technology, to join the venture....
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exabrain

Active

Data-driven & Machine Learning

Education

AI
exabrain transforms your study materials into hyper-personalized practice. Exercises adjust to your pace and help you master any topic. As you learn, exabrain tracks and adapts to your proficiency, giving you harder questions after correct answers and easier questions after incorrect answers, so you’re always practicing at the right level. exabrain is built for any learning stage, supporting you as a beginner and challenging you as an advanced learner.Built by students, for students....
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Floatz

Alumni

Data-driven & Machine Learning

Education

Software Engineering
floatz helps researchers find the most relevant and accurate science through novel AI architectures. 2 million scientific articles are published every year and, to make things worse, the disruptiveness of these articles has dropped by 90% over the last 50 years. How can a researcher find innovation in so much redundant information? The consequence is that researchers spend one year, on average, to write a successful project proposal that unlocks fundings. Practically, a researcher receives hundreds of articles every day from journals, newsletters etc. Most of it is irrelevant and they end up, after many hours, picking what seems useful while looking for novelty or impact. floatz provides a familiar and streamlined user experience. Researchers prompt for what they need and floatz uses AI to deliver relevant science and display it in a way that is easiest to digest. It combines the relevance capabilities of ChatGPT with the precision of scientific search engines like Google Scholar....
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Hier Summts

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Association/Club/Competition-Team

Art, culture and entertainment

Education

Environmental Sustainability
Insects play a central role in our ecosystems. They are important for pollinating various plants and form a substantial part of the food chain. Unfortunately, the diversity and quantity of insects has declined sharply in recent years and decades. Where they used to hum loudly, they are now silent. There are many reasons for this, ranging from intensification of agriculture to changes in land use patterns to the increasing threat of climate change. It is imperative to protect insects and their diversity. For this reason, Hier Summts is committed to raising awareness about the diversity of insects, their benefits and insect mortality throughout Switzerland by educating members and the general public about the importance of insects to local ecosystems. General knowledge about insect conservation is to be conveyed in as many ways as possible, such as through school visits, excursions and lectures. So far, we have been able to offer various events on entomology and biodynamic viticulture which are open to both members and non-members. Join our events and/or association to learn and discover much more about insects! ...
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Marmotian

Alumni

Education
Have you ever been inspired by an amazing article (e.g., on National Geographic, Scientific American, Wired)? Do you want to be the one to inspire people? The Internet has enough low-quality contents, especially on sciience and complex issues like environmental degradation. Books are too cumbersome for most people living a modern hustle lifestyle. The traditional magazine giants also settled in a specific niche with predictable content and is no longer producing novel inspiration. We need something better.The project Marmotian is launched recently (link below) after some grueling hours of rewriting and web design. It is intended to be an online magazine/inspiration hub. The main goal is the synthesize new knowlegde from diverse disiplines (~ philosophy to natural sciences, currently with a major focus on environmental issues), with a creative and story-telling style. Articles can range from an imaginative story, analytic essay, interview with experts about an exciting discovery or problem.There are 3 main sub-journals currently:1. Ideollurgy 2. Debatique 3. Poetry and shortsI am looking for teammates who share a passion of creating knowledge, creative writing, debate, graphic and web design, poetry, etc. Join me to spice up your life and mind!:) Contact me for more detail...
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Melior

Alumni

Art, culture and entertainment

Education
Melior’s mission is simple: make museums enjoyable for everyone. The company believes cultural knowledge should be easy to access, no matter who you are. Museums often present the same information to all visitors, which can be boring, confusing, or too time-consuming to understand. Melior wants to change this by making museum visits more personal and engaging. Melior turns your smartphone into a museum guide that adapts to you. It answers your questions and adjusts to your interests and knowledge level as you explore. Unlike standard audio guides, Melior creates a personal path through the museum just for you. The app works with museums to keep their vision intact while making exhibits more accessible. Museums also gain helpful data about how visitors interact with their collections....
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MEWELL

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Association/Club/Competition-Team

Community empowerment

Education

Health and wellbeing

Social Impact
MeWell is a young student and staff organization with the focus on providing both professional and community-focused activities around raising awareness of mental wellbeing and fighting metal health stigma at the universities in Zurich. For this purpose, MeWell offers a range of engaging activities focused on fighting mental health stigma in academia. Our events cover two main areas: 1. Mental health awareness Our mental health awareness program consists of educational activities which inform and teach our community about various aspects of mental health such as: promoting mental wellbeing, recognizing the signs and symptoms of poor mental health, and talks covering current research. Each month, we tackle a different topic together with an expert in the field. 2. Community outreach social events Our community outreach events offer an opportunity for our community to directly interact with each other and our team. This serves three main purposes: As a direct program to engage our community in a safe space and improve mental health through fun community activities.To potentially help redirect people to professional support organizations in case of poor mental health.As a recruitment and team development program....
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neuroo

Active

Consumer Apps

Education

Software Engineering
We develop software tools for schools, universities and educational institutions. Our focus lies on supporting teachers in their work by automating processes like exercise generation, exam correction and evaluation of performances. We give students feedback on their understanding and knowledge retention. We are three software engineers who are passionate about making leaning more effective and efficient. Through neuroo, we would like to make a positive contribution to the world of education....
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Pango Print

Active

Art, culture and entertainment

Education

Social Impact
Pango Print is a project that started with the idea of building a large 3D printer at low cost. Our first working prototype is 2.5 metres high and consists of more than 350 parts.Our mission is to provide 3D printing services of all sizes for both engineering prototyping and art.Our main activities include:Customised printing service for the customer (from engineer to architect to artist)Giving enterprising designers the opportunity to create and sell their product regardless of size (from functional to artistic objects)...
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Polytrick

Active

Education
Polytrick is a website created by students for students of mechanical engineering at ETH Zürich.Our vision is to provide useful information and practical tricks at every level of the ETH path: prior to enter, bachelor and master. In addition to this, extra-school activities are listed and proposed, enabling a broader and more complete understanding of the endless possibilities at ETH.Our content for the subjects is written by teaching assistants or great students, while other sections are carefully created alongside people that had experience in that field.We believe in sharing ideas and learning by engaging with people who have more experience....
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Recycling 3D Printer Plastics

Active

DIY Build

Looking for a team member

Education

Environmental Sustainability

Open source
After finding out that SPH doesn't recycle its waste plastic from the 3D printers, I wanted to do something about that. Recycling these plastics is possible, and with enough care taken to sort them, they can be reused for 3D printing with results comparable to original filament. The extrusion is then carried out with an Artme MK3. Most of the input material is failed 3D prints, design iterations, and support material. That needs to be sorted for a high quality result, removing impurities and other types of plastics. One difficulty for reaching a good quality result is purity: PLA and PETG need to be reliably separated. After shredding into granules, the material is extruded into 1.75+/-0.03mm filament. This is comparable to Prusa's commercial PRUSAMENT at 1.75+/-0.02mm. ...
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ResearchReach

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Education
ResearchReach was developed during the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp at the University of Zurich to address the inefficiencies in academic research recruitment. The project was born from the challenges researchers face when managing participant recruitment, a process often marked by inefficiency and repetitive work. At the same time, many potential participants struggle to find studies they can join. Our platform bridges this gap, creating value for both sides. Our platform serves two main groups: participants and researchers. Participants gain access to a central portal where they can find studiesthat match their interests and background. For researchers, we provide a recruitment management system that streamlines tasks from outreach to screening and study enrollment. By automating these manual steps, researchers save time, reduce administrative burden, and can focus more on their research....
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RoboticGen Academy: Journey-based STEM puzzles

Active

Community empowerment

Education

Hardware Engineering & Robotics

Open source
Journey-based STEM Education with Obo’s Odyssey: Unlock your inner hero! Obo's Odyssey offers a unique journey-based STEM education experience for K-12 students, blending the excitement of engineering and technology with the thrill of adventure. Through our online platform, learners embark on a mission with Obo Jr., a robot poised to become a superhero. This adventure is packed with weekly challenges that are not only engaging but also align with the Sustainable Development Goals, fostering a deeper understanding and commitment to global issues. Our rich ecosystem includes physical and hybrid online programs, competitions, and workshops, designed to provide a comprehensive learning experience. Starting in Sri Lanka with over 50 enthusiastic participants, our initiative is rapidly expanding, inviting students worldwide to join the quest. At Obo's Odyssey, we believe in nurturing the innovators, problem-solvers, and leaders of tomorrow by making STEM education a captivating journey towards making a meaningful impact. Embark on this educational adventure and help shape a sustainable future, one challenge at a time....
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RUBY Coaching

Active

Education

Health and wellbeing

Professional services and consulting
Welcome to RUBY Coaching! We are committed to transforming 'collaboration' into more than just another buzzword. We strive to provide concrete and practical methods for fostering a collaborative environment. We offer tailored workshops that reflect your unique needs, focusing on critical areas like psychological safety, nonviolent communication, creativity, and leadership. We're serious about fostering personal growth, enhancing team collaboration, and yes, we do believe in enjoying the process. After all, even in the business world, there's always room for a little fun. Feeling brave? We're just a message away. 📩 ...
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SEET

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Association/Club/Competition-Team

Education

Social Impact
The association “SEET – Support Education, Empower Together” supports refugees in (re)starting their higher education in Switzerland.Cultural, financial and institutional obstacles compromise the prospects of recognised refugees to study in Switzerland. Through a mentoring program, SEET aims to act as a facilitator between Swiss higher education institutions and refugees interested in studying to overcome these obstacles. With this personal empowerment of refugees, SEET supports their integration into the Swiss society. Society, in turn, profits from the potential and the unique experience that the sponsored individuals bring to Switzerland.SEET represents equality of opportunities and the indefeasible right for education. ...
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Showzone

Alumni

Education
We are a team of product experts, data science and business enthusiasts. We firmly hold that content delivery is the cornerstone for effective presentations, enhancing your impact and fostering business success. Embracing a simple, scalable approach, we aim to unify the power of presentations with AI, and we're working hard to make this happen. Showzone provides a single app to deliver successful presentations across the world. We're proud to partner with ETH Zürich and ETH AI Center amongst other great organizations supporting us on our mission to deliver presentations with success. Join us now and make your next presentation a Showzone experience....
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Studycoach

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Education

Social Impact
Wir bei StudyCoach sind entschlossen, eine herausragende Lernplattform für Schülerinnen und Schüler zu entwickeln. Unser Angebot erstreckt sich von der 1. bis zur 12. Klasse und umfasst Nachhilfe in sämtlichen Fächern und Schularten – sei es Mathematik, Deutsch, Englisch oder andere Fachgebiete. Unsere hochqualifizierten Tutoren fördern den individuellen Lernfortschritt durch persönliche Betreuung und massgeschneiderte Lernstrategien....
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TeachAR

Alumni

Education

Medical devices and diagnostics
TeachAR revolutionizes physiotherapy with PoseTeacher, blending Augmented Reality and AI. Engage in fun, supervised exercises, personalized plans, and real-time telepresence. We ensure accurate pose estimation, gamification, and hardware accessibility. Join us in transforming global physiotherapy with innovative technology and personalized care. Empower your recovery journey with TeachAR. Engage in fun, supervised exercises, personalized plans, and real-time telepresence. We ensure accurate pose estimation, gamification, and hardware accessibility. Join us in transforming global physiotherapy with innovative technology and personalized care. Empower your recovery journey with TeachAR....
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The Student Biolab

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Chemical processes + compounds, biotech and pharmaceuticals

Community empowerment

Education

Social Impact
The Student Biolab is a platform and a community for students to design, prototype, and implement their life science research and product ideas. We are a group of motivated students, sharing biology and biotechnology as common passion. Our team is extremely interdisciplinary: we are biologists, engineers, computer scientists. We were born last February but we have already achieved an important milestone: having our own wet lab. Here we run experimental workshops, build startup prototypes and, in general, meet with passionate people to share thoughts and ideas. Our lab is a place where to work on your own project; we are equipped with modern biology instrumentation that can be freely used. But that’s not all. We are building a strong network with corporate Industry partners, to transform the lab in a space where we can answer to the need and demands of the market. We are progressively growing, and we are open to welcome new passionate people. Are you ready to join us?...
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thebookclub ETH

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Association/Club/Competition-Team

Community empowerment

Education

Social Impact
✨ Good day, dear reader! Welcome to the first book club at ETH! You might be thinking, ‘Book club... what could that be?’ Well, we’re not your typical book club. Our goal is to create a community and a platform where students can meet fellow readers. No qualifications are needed to consider yourself a reader! Anyone is welcome, maybe you read 500 pages a day (...is that possible as a student though?) or the last time you read was when you were 14 years old. As long as you have a passion for reading, we would love to have you!thebookclub ETH - Apéro at SPH...
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Versarys Bioscience

Active

Chemical processes + compounds, biotech and pharmaceuticals

Education

Global development
We develop co-culture devices that let microbial and mammalian populations interact via secreted metabolites while remaining separable to track each population individually, enabling controlled, scalable, high-throughput studies. Our MVP is already in use by 40+ labs worldwide. We’re expanding our product range to serve microbiology, immunology, and host–pathogen research across diverse use cases. The project originated during a PhD, where early prototypes were developed to overcome limitations in studying complex microbial interactions. The team was formed through the Business Concept course at StartUp Campus, combining scientific and entrepreneurial expertise....
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VirtualAlpha

Alumni

Education

Finance and fin-tech, insurance

Social Impact
VirtualAlpha is a web platform that enables students to learn more about the financial markets. It offers a variety of tools to try out different investment strategies. Students receive a virtual portfolio in which they can invest as they wish, and the prices are those of the real market. So with VirtualAlpha there is no financial risk. VirtualAlpha offers many functionalities that are also available on the real market, such as limits and stops, and of course dividends are paid out. In addition, there are various statistics to assess the success of one's own strategy. The platform is very user-friendly and intuitive, so that students can navigate quickly and easily. Training materials and resources will soon be available to help students better understand the financial markets and different investment strategies. Some schools are already using VirtualAlpha and investments can be made worldwide. It is important to start thinking about funding your pension at a young age. Long-term investing is an important solution to this. VirtualAlpha makes it possible to invest successfully in the financial markets and prepare for the future....
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ZealEd

Alumni

Education

Hardware Engineering & Robotics
At ZealEd, we are dedicated to enhancing engagement, fostering interdisciplinary thinking, and promoting problem-solving skills through immersive problem-based learning opportunities. Imagine a classroom buzzing with excitement as students explore various disciplines, including biology, chemistry, and physics. Our groundbreaking science instruction kits are designed to seamlessly integrate these subjects, amplifying students' understanding and unleashing their creativity. Moreover, we go beyond traditional teaching methods by incorporating cutting-edge technologies like programming, 3D modeling and printing, and electronics. These dynamic tools empower students to grasp theoretical concepts and apply their knowledge in practical, real-world scenarios....
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