Kyle
Sponeglab Interactive, a Toronto based educational startup, celebrated their one year anniversary last month of their free online science education platform called Spongelab.
“In one year, we’ve grown from beluga to blue whale,” says Dr. Jeremy Friedberg, lead designer and co-founder of Spongelab Interactive. “As Spongelab expands, we can better provide state-of-the-art online science education technology to anyone in the world – at no cost.”
The online science learning solution now reaches users in 151 countries and its user registrations continue to grow at a rate of 40 percent monthly. Spongelab’s targeted audience of teachers and students have accessed over 1.5 million pieces of educational content thanks to an expanding library of over 800 games, images, videos, lesson plans and more.
The site now boasts over 800 different pieces of multimedia and interactive content. They’ve also created a variety of educational games like like Dragon Breeder (learn genetic inheritance through dragons breeding!),Knowledge Mine (biology trivia mixed with gem-busting puzzle elements) and the award-winning Build-a-Body (a drag-n-drop human anatomy app), along with hundreds of other interactives all playable for free online.
We got a chance to talk with Spongelab in the interview below: