In Boston, we have the Japanese International Development Community which is the community for people who are interested in international development. Masako spoke about her experiences working with Indonesian kids, and about Lyriko, especially how we want to help immigrants and people who don’t have learning opportunities in developing countries. Lyriko is freemium, so wherever people have access to devices and internet, they can play it. Attendees were curious about our way of working as well, especially how we communicate with team members who live all over the world! They asked really great questions and had a workshop to think about Indonesian educational issues. Like how teachers don’t come to school, or kids are cheating. For those problems, we got several unique ideas! It was really great to meet people interested in international development.

We attended The Close It Summit in DC, a conference addressing the skills gap between what employers need and what job seekers have. Dan spoke about Lyriko on the panel “Your Smart Phone Just Got Smarter: Education to Employment.” He talked about Lyriko as a way to help immigrants and other language learners increase their employable skills like teamwork and communication in an enjoyable way that fits their busy lives. We met more than 30 potential collaborators and it was a great opportunity to discuss closing the skills gap. You’ll have to trust us that there were more attendees than shown in this picture. It’s totally a real conference!

We exhibited at MassCUE (Massachusetts Computer Using Educators conference) in Gillette stadium, showing Lyriko to teachers and school technology coordinators who are looking for ways to innovate with technology and have tablets or Chromebooks for each student. We also met other cool startups trying to improve learning in various ways and got some really encouraging feedback on Lyriko!

We attended Boston Fig for the 2nd year – last year we won 2 awards!  Many repeat attendees were there who remembered us and were glad to see our progress. We enjoyed introducing new gamers of all ages to Lyriko as well. Over 70 gamers signed up to be testers!